Somehow I doubt The New Republic wants to let this Columbia Tribune piece from today stand as the definitive mainstream media record on the Scott Beauchamp affair.
The U.S. Army is disputing all of the claims made by former University of Missouri-Columbia student Scott Beauchamp in essays for The New Republic about his experiences in the Iraq war, according to the results of the military’s internal investigation.
"The allegations were found to be false," Major Steven F. Lamb, deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad, said in an e-mail to the Tribune. "His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims he made."
A message left for The New Republic’s editor, Franklin Foer, was not returned. Elspeth Reeve, Beauchamp’s wife and a reporter-researcher for The New Republic, declined to comment.
Beauchamp’s wife and a [soon to be former] reporter-researcher
Posted by: Terry Gain | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 at 04:53 PM