The four soldiers being charged with of conspiring to murder Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad last spring are in the same company as The New Republic‘s former man in Iraq, Scott Beauchamp, Media Mob has learned.
Mr. Beauchamp wrote several pieces for TNR under the name Scott Thomas last summer in which he described Read More
As The Observer wrote yesterday, one of the main reasons New Republic editor Franklin Foer decided to end the magazine’s effort to verify Scott Beauchamp’s "Baghdad Diarist" columns and issue a retraction was Mr. Foer’s belief that Mr. Beauchamp—who was stationed in Iraq until last month—was not fully cooperating with TNR‘s investigation, and sometimes Read More
The editors of The New Republic have posted a statement saying that Scott Beauchamp, the U.S. Army private whose unsigned TNR dispatches from Iraq came under scrutiny this summer, did not admit to fabricating any parts of his stories–contrary to an article posted on The Drudge Report Wednesday.
The Drudge Report posted several documents Read More
Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic, said in an interview that the documents Matt Drudge posted this afternoon—and removed several hours later without explanation—could have only come from the Army.
Mr. Foer said he called TNR’s contact there, Major Kirk Luedeke, as soon as the documents appeared on Drudge’s Web site. According Read More
