TNR's Friday Afternoon News Dump

It's Friday afternoon and TNR provides an update on their Scott Beauchamp ordeal. According to Google it came out about 2:30. Nice Friday afternoon bad news dump, guys. This below is kind of like saying one's virginity has been severely hampered by an unfortunate pregnancy.

Indeed, we continue to investigate the anecdotes recounted in the Baghdad Diarist. Unfortunately, our efforts have been severely hampered by the U.S. Army.

As for this below, it seems to be the very thing Franklin Foer and Elspeth Reeve have told more than a few inquiring journalists (also see here) by now. Evidently Reeve isn't even talking to TNR, despite her being the lynchpin of Pvt. Beauchamp's credibility, imagine that.

What's more, the Army has rejected our requests to speak to Beauchamp himself, on the grounds that it wants "to protect his privacy."

This below is disingenuous, at best. An official military source told you they had nothing to do with that comment, it was an individual. You told us that Beauchamp was speaking as simply "one soldier" in his diaries. Is he the only soldier allowed to speak without being labeled a tool of the military establishment?

At the same time the military has stonewalled our efforts to get to the truth, it has leaked damaging information about Beauchamp to conservative bloggers.

And this below - previously TNR claimed Beauchmp signed "a statement," now it's "several."

On July 26, Beauchamp told us that he signed several statements under what he described as pressure from the Army. He told us that these statements did not contradict his articles.

Still, they are, unfortunately, somewhat justified in their final claim that the Military could do more to shed some light on these affairs, though they do nothing to engage the mounting evidence against the truth of some of Beauchamp's writing.

Our investigation has not thus far uncovered factual evidence (aside from one key detail) to discount his personal dispatches. And we cannot simply dismiss the corroborating accounts of the five soldiers with whom we spoke. (You can read our findings here.)

Comments

[Vanderleun]

The editors are young and dumb about America and the military. They think they spin when they but twist.

[Dan Riehl]

"think they spin when they but twist."

Had a gal like that, once - think I saw her pic on your blog! lol She was a religious experience.

[Phoenix]

jeeez. Dan. haw haw..