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US Army Documents Prove The New RepublicKnew It Was Peddling Lies With “Shock Troops”

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Drudge has exclusively obtained documents regarding the Scott Thomas Beauchamp “Shock Troops” scandal.  (h/t – GP Reader Peter Hughes).

These US Army documents, including a transcript of a phone call with editors of The New Republic clearly show the folks at TNR were lying to its readers when they repeatedly stated that Scott Beauchamp’s fictional accounts of Iraq were in fact true (CBS’ “fake, but accurate” scenario).  TNR editors also lied when they said that the US Army was censoring him and they weren’t able to communicate with him.

On August 10, the editors at TNR accused the Army of “stonewalling” their investigation into the stories by preventing them from speaking with Beauchamp. The DRUDGE REPORT has since obtained the transcript of a September 7 call between TNR editor Frank Foer, TNR executive editor Peter Scoblic, and Private Beauchamp. During the call, Beauchamp declines to stand by his stories, telling his editors that “I just want it to end. I’m not going to talk to anyone about anything really.” The editors respond that “we just can’t, in good conscience, continue to defend the piece” without an explanation, but Beauchamp responds only that he “doesn’t care what the public thinks.” The editors then ask Beauchamp to cancel scheduled interviews with the WASHINGTON POST and NEWSWEEK.

The DRUDGE REPORT has also obtained a signed “Memorandum for Record” in which Beauchamp recants his stories and concedes the facts of the Army’s investigation — that his stories contained “gross exaggerations and inaccurate allegations of misconduct” by his fellow soldiers.

The third document obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT is the Army’s official report on the investigation into the allegations made by Private Beauchamp. The Army concluded that Beauchamp had “completely fabricated” the story of mocking a disfigured woman, that his description of a “Saddam-era dumping ground” was false, and that claims that he and his men had deliberately targeted dogs with their armored vehicles was “completely unfounded.”

The ultimate Phony Soldier Story has been officially ripped apart (as many of us knew for months it would be).

Will Andrew Sullivan still stick up for his former employer and their pack of liars?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  2. The real shameful thing about this, I’m not surprised. Stuff like this has become expected with very little or no contrition. American journalism is corrupt for the most part. Thank God for the alternative media. Most of my sources are Fox News and London daily’s on line!

  4. #2
    It’s yet another example of the long list of liberal lies we’ve been handed over the past few years. From the CIA smears of Bolton, Feith, Rumsfeld, Bush etc. to Valerie Wilson to Farenheit 7-11 to Jesse MacBeth to this worthless turd and on and on.

  5. Or TGC, he’ll say “But TNR founds troops to corroborate the stories. Are you calling them liars?”

    For the milliionth time: No, dimwit, we’re calling TNR liars. (Or at least, practitioners of Clinton-esque “spin”, whitewash and deceptive tactics.)

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  8. Assuming they’re authentic, the transcripts (Malkin) are just priceless. Beauchamp squirms like a worm. TNR pressures Beauchamp to let them “control the way this story proceeds” and specifically to NOT talk to anyone in the media.

    I’ll repeat that. The Army never tried to keep Beauchamp from talking; *TNR* tried to keep Beauchamp from talking.

  9. Full transcript (h/t Weekly Standard) of Beauchamp’s Sept. phone call with TNR:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Beauchamp_Transcript.pdf

    It only gets “better” – i.e. worse for TNR. Speaking a kind of code, Franklin Foer (TNR editor) all-but-threatens to injure Beauchamp’s wife professionally, if Beauchamp won’t tell the world he stands by his claims. (Recall that Beauchamp’s wife works at TNR and probably vouched for Beauchamp.) Gradually and by similar code, Beauchamp all-but-says: Fine, hurt her. His wrap-up:

    “I’m going to have to [choose to stop giving interviews and just do my Army job]… and I know it’s going to hurt my wife… but it’s something I have to do because it’s my job and I swore to do it. And it’s much more important to [do my Army job] than to be involved in all this… so I am not going to make any more statements to the media. I’m going to have to end the phone call.”

  10. P.S. You could rightly ask, how is it true that TNR tried to keep Beauchamp from talking, if Beauchamp himself was saying he wouldn’t talk anymore?

    Here is the answer. Naively or whatever, Beauchamp planned to give interviews to Newsweek and the Washington Post – purely to tell them he’s OK, and he could talk but he just doesn’t want to. TNR pressured Beauchamp to cancel *those* media interviews – as they would have undermined TNR’s phony spin, that it was the Army who was silencing Beauchamp.

  11. 1st
    To call Beauchamp “phony” is 100% inaccurate.
    He is there, fighting. You are in your home, comfy.
    So you can stop your phony patriotism right now. (and your use of that term shows just how phony your patriotism is)
    2nd
    I have often typed, that this may, or may not be true and the rights’s rush to judgment is simply due to the fact his narrative was different than yours.
    The data mining and psychoanalyzing he has gone through because of the narrative is shameful.
    3rd
    I just got back from drudgereport. I could not find this flash. He is usually very self promoting so its strange its not there. Maybe I missed it.
    So I will wait to see those documents, see his flash and wait for the whole story to come out before any judgment is made on my part. As I have previously typed, if it is a lie, and the TNR knew it heads should roll.
    And ILC –
    Malkin’s hyperventilating has made her a very inaccurate source of information in the past I suggest you do not trust her posts. Her accuracy record is likely much worse than the TNR’s….

  12. To call Beauchamp “phony” is 100% inaccurate.
    He is there, fighting. You are in your home, comfy.

    Oh, he’s fighting all right.

    The question is WHO he’s fighting.

    And, as this whole thing makes obvious, who he’s fighting and trying to destroy are his fellow American soldiers.

    Meanwhile, the rest of your post is an exercise in projection — namely, your attempting to blame us for the fact that you wanted so badly to believe his lies and slander of our troops and his propaganda about how evil American soldiers were that you didn’t check facts.

    We did.

    Meanwhile, your pathetic attempt to redeem yourself by saying “heads should roll” is meaningless — because you are in complete and utter denial that what Beauchamp did was wrong or that what TNR did is wrong, and you will always be in denial.

    Examine your hatreds, gil, and explain to us why your need to slander and defame American soldiers is so great that you continue to support these liars.

  14. #11 – gil – The documents appear quite real. Obtained under someone’s FOIA request. We’re not talking about Malkin, we’re talking about the documents. And I GAVE LINKS links to the documents. So, even if Drudge shut them down for bandwidth or whatever, it is VERY EASY for you to read them RIGHT NOW. So cut the crap!

  17. And here is the Army’s investigative report, systematically devastating Beauchamp’s phony tales:
    http://hotair.cachefly.net/mm/stb3.pdf

    Those links work as of RIGHT NOW, gil. CLICK AND READ.

    “6/h. …I [investigator] find that Private Beauchamp takes small bits of truth and twists and exaggerates them into fictional accounts… for public consumption…
    7/c [I recommend] That the unit send Private Beauchamp for a mental health consultation…”

    Beauchamp sounds like a leftie to me.

  18. NDT and TGC: I think Beauchamp is just a dumb leftie yung’un who got in way, way over his head; TNR are the culprits of interest. From reading the documents, it looks like B. has decided to get serious about his job… for now. But we’re all still waiting for TNR to come clean. Just print a 2-sentence apology and retraction, already!

  20. #19 What?
    My post and opinion on this is almost the same as #18
    If TNR knowing lied, damn right, heads should roll
    # 16
    Stop lying. FF does not “confirm authenticity”
    He wishes he could have seen them and complains how about how the army is playing the story.
    #12
    You are the definition of a phony patriot

    Why has drudge taken down the link? Anyone know? He is silent.

  21. My, my. Someone certainly seems to have taken their ‘stupid and delusional’ pills today.

    Re: #16, the link I gave there. Here is the headline. REPEAT, THE HEADLINE.

    TNR’s Foer: Drudge’s Documents Could Have Come Only From the Army

    And here is the opening paragraph:

    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.

    How is that not a confirmation, as I put it, that “here is Franklin Foer confirming the authenticity of all the Drudge documents”?????????
    How a “lie”???????????????????????????

  22. P.S. It is true that Foer tries hard, once again, to spin it so our troops (the Army) are somehow the bad guys. Per the article, Foer goes on to allege that:

    …TNR had been trying since July to get access to some of the documents Mr. Drudge posted, but that the Army had not cooperated.

    I am not the first to notice the ridiculousness there. Think about it. Foer is saying he doesn’t have access to his, Foer’s, own conversations with Beauchamp and the Army – the subject of 2 of the 3 documents in question, and something any halfway-competent or halfway-honest journalist would have tape-recorded – to have it on the record, so to speak.

  24. I guess Gil could also say that the Duke lacrosse players weren’t really falsely accused of rape, it’s just that Nifong and their accuser had “a different narrative” than the rest of us.

    Actually, she had several, and they frequently contradicted themselves. But hey, to the progressive moral relativist, there is no ‘truth’ only competing narratives.

  26. Slight update / correction to something I said earlier:

    The documents were apparently gathered in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests coming from several quarters – certainly both TNR and Confederate Yankee (Bob), among others – and were approaching release. BUT, the early release on Drudge seems to have been a leak as such.

    The Army disapproves the leak and is investigating. BUT, the new leftie propaganda tactic is going to be like, “The Army is just part of the right-wing Republican noise machine and is trying to smear TNR!!!!” Confederate Yankee (Bob) discusses it all here:
    http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/244574.php

    Cue gil giving that new Party Line in 4, 3, 2…

    Let me answer pre-emptively that, honey, while it may be a leak, it ain’t a smear unless it’s just not true. The docs are real and true. They say what they say. TNR really did publish falsehoods; then engage in a pathetic and shameful cover-up in which they had lengthy discussions with Beauchamp – while pretending to the public that a dark, non-existent Army conspiracy was preventing them.