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Zounds: Army HASN'T bound, gagged Pvt Beauchamp
| From Bill Roggio and the Weekly Standard. The New Republic had claimed that they couldn't go any further in their 'investigation' of the matter since the Army had prevented Pvt. Beauchamp from talking with them. Bill Roggio talked to the Army -- of course he did. |
I recently emailed Col. Steve Boylan asking for whatever information he could provide regarding the status of the investigation of Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Here is his response:
His command's investigation is complete. At this time, there is no formal what we call Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) actions being taken. However, there are other Administrative actions or what we call Non-Judicial Punishment that can be taken if the command deems appropriate. These are again administrative in nature and as such are not releasable to the public by law.
We are not stonewalling anyone. There are official statements that are out there are on the record from several of us and nothing has changed.
We are not preventing him from speaking to TNR or anyone. He has full access to the Morale Welfare and Recreation phones that all the other members of the unit are free to use. It is my understanding that he has been informed of the requests to speak to various members of the media, both traditional and non-traditional and has declined. That is his right.
We will not nor can we force a Soldier to talk to the media or his family or anyone really for that matter in these types of issues.
We fully understand the issues on this. What everyone must understand is that we will not breach the rights of the Soldier and this is where this is at this point. | So Scott Tom doesn't want to talk to his editors at TNR right now? Wotta surprise. This keeps up, and Franklin Foer is going to have to find another Soros-funded front group to join. |
Posted by: Steve White 2007-08-12 |
