Al Kamen’s “In the Loop” column in today’s Washington Post takes a few nasty whacks at my old boss, Linda Chavez. The occasion is a meeting the president recently held on immigration; Chavez attended. Kamen snidely says that Chavez “heads something called the Center for Equal Opportunity.” That “something” is of course a think tank, which is now more than a decade old. Talk about being “out of the loop.” Kamen goes on to mention Chavez’s “interesting relationship with an illegal alien living in her home who was doing generally unpaid housework for her.” I’m not sure what Kamen means to imply by calling the relationship “interesting,” but the “unpaid housework” portion of his claim is flatly wrong. It is true that an illegal alien lived with Chavez, but Kamen’s suggestion that she was practically an indentured servant is obnoxious and shows a willful disregard of the facts. I know, because I was an eyewitness to what Kamen thinks he’s describing. At the time this was in the news, more than five years ago, I wrote about it here.