It's the coverup that kills you, part 5 :: Power Line

Yesterday the Drudge Report With posted key documents in the matter of the New Republic's Baghdad Diarist Scott Beauchamp. Among the key documents was the transcript of Scott Beauchamp's September 6 telephone call with New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic and editor Franklin Foer. The transcript exhibits the desperation of "the editors" to corroborate Beauchamp's deleted "Shock troops" column, Beauchamp's refusal to engage the issues, the editors' pleading and threats, the editors' urging Beauchamp to cancel his scheduled interviews with the Washington Post and Newsweek, and Beauchamp's doing so.

The transcript also shows the editors pleading with Beauchamp for a copy of the statement he provided the Army in the course of its investigation. After consulting with counsel, Beauchamp must not have provided the authorization necessary for the Army to release the statement. TNR, in any event, has had nothing to say either about its request to Beauchamp or about the statement Beauchamp provided the Army. Why would that that be?

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