Army Concludes Baghdad Diarist Accounts Untrue(freeper)

[Mojorabbit]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080701922.html?hpid=topnews
Army Concludes Baghdad Diarist Accounts Untrue

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 8, 2007; Page C01

Army investigators have concluded that the private whose dispatches for the New Republic accused his fellow soldiers of petty cruelties in Iraq was not telling the truth.

The finding, disclosed yesterday, came days after the Washington-based magazine announced that it had corroborated the claims of the private, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, except for one significant error.


"An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by Pvt. Beauchamp were found to be false," an Army statement said. "His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims."

But New Republic Editor Franklin Foer is standing his ground. "We've talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account," Foer said. The magazine granted anonymity to the other soldiers it cited.

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[EFerrari]

1. Beth concludes the Pentagon is a wholly owned subsidiary.

Why do they even bother?

[NanceGreggs]

2. Well, that says it all for me ...

... once the name Howard Kurtz appears in a byline, I am confident that journalistic integrity has prevailed.




Do I really need to add the :sarcasm: thingy?

[WillyT]

3. No Nance, You Don't

He's pretty much proved his worthlessness.

:shrug:

[NanceGreggs]

6. Howard Kurtz, for f*ck's sake!

That's like saying: "The source of these facts are unimpeachable, having emanated from Bozo the Clown."

[EFerrari]

4. The sooner they figure out no one is really listening, the sooner

this embarrassment will end.

[NanceGreggs]

7. Haven't they gone beyond the embarrassment stage?

Ooops! Sorry, I forgot - we're dealing with people who have stretched the envelope, as they say, when it comes to publicly humiliating themselves.

Howard F*cking Kurtz!

Late Breaking News: The bottom of the proverbial barrel has now been officially scraped ...

[EFerrari]

8. This is what "no shame" looks like. They're sociopaths.

How we came to breed so many is a dissertation. :shrug:

[madfloridian]

5. The great Matt Sanchez was involved in this.

Credible guy that he is...the way he lied about Columbia students picking on him.

He's embedded with the Marines.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1396

Wonder if they know he was a gay porn star?

[antiimperialist]

9. Democrats in congress should investigate pressure on Beauchamp

This smell fishy to me. They lied about Jessica Lynch. They lied about Tillman.
They are pressuring Beauchamp.