The New Republic continues to play games with the Scottscam story. They would like you, the reader, to believe that they've fact checked everything with their anonymous sources and to take their word on it that they got all the details right. Except for the ones that they got wrong.
You know the story about the incident in the dining hall where a woman who was brutally injured from an IED and a melted face? That didn't happen in Baghdad at FOB Falcon during deployment.
That happened before. It is now claimed that it happened in Kuwait at Camp Buehring. So, not only was the location wrong, but the timing is wrong.
TNR has succeeded in moving the goalposts and redirected everyone's attention in claiming that they've satisfactorily addressed all the concerns over Beauchamp's statements, except they haven't done a damned thing.
They've only raised more questions on their fact checking. How is it possible that the fact checkers could have gotten the dining hall incident wrong in both time and location? They were off by a country and months. That's not a simple detail to screw up? Is it?
The rest of their claims continue to be based on anonymous statements or a statement from the manufacturer of the Bradley who says that a Bradley fighting vehicle could carry out the movements claimed. Whether they could do so and whether any commander would ever permit them to be driven that way are two different things.
The key continues to be the Army's own ongoing investigation into Beauchamp's actions and they will have the final say.
Others blogging: Ace, who fisks TNR's comments line by line (and then slams the lefties who suck at TNR's teat without noting the huge correction as per the dining hall incident), Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Junkyard Blog, and LGF.
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