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Documents from Scott Beauchamp affair leaked to Drudge
The DRUDGE REPORT has optained internal documents from the investigation of THE NEW REPUBLIC'S "Baghdad Diarist", Scott Thomas Beauchamp, an Army private turned war correspondent who reported tales of military malfeasance from the Iraq War front. . . .Document 1: Beauchamp Refuses to Stand by Story (Beauchamp Transcript Part 1) . . . 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." "So that means we'll have to defend it in bad consience." "Works for me." "Yeah! Defend it, and then feel bad about it later." "Yep, that's the ticket." The editors then ask Beauchamp to cancel scheduled interviews with the WASHINGTON POST and NEWSWEEK. Document 2: Beauchamp Admits to "Gross Exaggerations and Inaccurate Allegations" (Beauchamp Transcript Part 2) 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 &0151; that his stories contained "gross exaggerations and inaccurate allegations of misconduct" by his fellow soldiers. Document 3: Army Investigation: Tales "Completely Fabricated," Beauchamp Wanted to be Hemingway . . . The report concludes that "Private Beauchamp takes small bits of truth and twists and exaggerates them into fictional accounts that he puts forth as the whole truth for public consumption." Not exactly "news" if you've been following the story, but it's nice to see it in print in an official document. Developing... Posted by: Mike 2007-10-24 |
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