I know, I know. I said I hate Salon. Just watch the dumb ad and then read Mary Jacoby’s important follow-up to the Faisal Gill story. The Homeland Security inspector general has launched a very necessary and belated investigation.

“I was troubled by it, as I think anyone would be,” the inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, said in an interview. Ervin was referring to a report in Salon on Tuesday about Homeland’s director of policy for intelligence, Faisal Gill, who was briefly removed from his job in March when the Federal Bureau of Investigation raised questions about his security clearance.

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