TNR & Beauchamp: What To Make Of It All?

The entire Baghdad Diarist / TNR / Weekly Standard / U.S. Army debacle is proving to be quite a back and forth.

Weekly Standard calls TNR out.

TNR says “we’ll look into it.”

TNR stands by its man.

Weekly Standard snaps back.

Weekly Standard says Beauchamp admitted under oath that his reporting was faulty.

Although this generated the most headlines yesterday, TNR is, more quietly, trying to tell folks, “Not so fast.”

On its website, TNR editors have issued the following statement, which seems to suggest that they’re not yet ready to call this a “Stephen Glass” moment:

    We’ve talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement.

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