August 06, 2007
Beauchamp Recants Stories, Signs Statement Verifying Their Falsity
The new TNR/MSM standard for running stories - "smidgens" of truth.
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Via the Weekly Standard:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns--signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.The flaming skull's up at Ace's (who's earned a promotion for rolling TNR on this story), and TNR's razor-thin hair of credibility has been torched.
Now that the military investigation has concluded, the great unanswered question in the affair is this: Did Scott Thomas Beauchamp lie under oath to U.S. Army investigators, or did he lie to his editors at the New Republic? Beauchamp has recanted under oath. Does the New Republic still stand by his stories?We would ask them, but they're hiding out in a cabin or on a lonely beach somewhere trying to figure out what the hell to do.
Looks like TNR picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Stephen Glass redux...
UPDATE: Ace even got an advance, sooper seekret copy of Beauchamp's war memoirs. Friends in high places.
UPDATE 8/07 by Rusty: TNR now denying that Beauchamp has recanted, cite same guy who calls Beauchamp a liar.
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