Know when to retire
Posted at 11:25pm on Oct. 24, 2007 The Drudge Report finishes the job of sending TNR down by the mast
Who will go down with the ship??
By Jeff Emanuel
[Update:] Hot Air has been following the drama of today's document release, including what looked like it would be a claim that the documents Drudge posted were fake. I've got some notes on that here, as well.
The Drudge Report today drove what should be the final stake in the heart of the seemingly un-killable Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair this week, publishing on its website official documents from the U.S. Army investigation of the formerly pseudonymous “Baghdad Diarist’s” claims of reprehensible behavior on the part of himself and his fellow soldiers while living and working in Iraq. Also published was the transcript of a September 6 conference call between Beauchamp and TNR’s editorial staff.
The investigation, over now for nearly three months, began on Thursday, July 26 – the same day that Beauchamp “outed” himself on The New Republic’s (TNR) website, giving his full name and unit affiliation, and stating that he stood by his stories 100%. “It's been maddening, to say the least,” he wrote, “to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq. ...[M]y character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question, and I believe that it is important to stand by my writing under my real name.”
Read on for more info, analysis, and links to the documents.
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