MORE TROUBLE FOR FRANKLIN FOER AND THE NEW REPUBLIC: Beauchamp Story Collapses. Documents at the link.
At the very least, they should be embarrassed about their snarky response to those who doubted the story.
UPDATE: Reader Kyle Kveton emails:
Let us hope that TNR and its defenders will salute the “leaker” of this information as ardently as they saluted the leakers of classified national security information which appeared on the front pages of our “papers of record”.
As I recall, TNR isn’t very supportive of those who leak secrets that make TNR look bad. And I notice that Peter Scoblic of TNR seems awfully anxious to make sure that the record reflects his non-involvement with the decision to publish the Beauchamp piece.
ANOTHER UPDATE: More at Hot Air.
I’m not seeing anything at TNR’s website yet, though.
MORE: Reader Bob Kramer looked at the TNR website: “A search for ‘Beauchamp’ now matches no documents. I tried this a couple of weeks ago and could still find matches.”
He’s right.
Still more here. “Now, here is a truly disgusting moment. Beauchamp lets TNR know he wants to talk to other news outlets to tell them he is NOT being censored. And what does TNR do? It attempts to censor him. Franklin Foer, and I quote, leans on Beauchamp to ‘let us control the way this story proceeds.’â€
MORE STILL: “Is the investigation over now?”
Plus, “Who will star in the sequel to Shattered Glass?“
STILL MORE: Another reader points out that no searches are working at the TNR site right now. Possibly it’s just a technical glitch.
EVEN MORE: Now the Drudge links aren’t working. But you can find the documents he links to here. Go figure. But note that TNR isn’t disputing the documents’ accuracy, just Drudge’s take. And here’s an email from TNR:
My name is Ben Wasserstein and I’m the editor of The New Republic’s website, TNR.com. As readers of Instapundit have noticed, and as we wrote about yesterday http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3c2accec-63b5-449d-9c96-6c5e6e6867cb our relaunched website is unfortunately very much a work in progress, and has many bugs. At the moment, no searches are working, and some of our archives have not yet made the transition to the new site, including all comments on pre-relaunch articles and blog posts. In the meantime, articles pertaining to Scott Thomas Beauchamp can be found at the below URLs:
“War Bonds†1/29/07 – http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a420fc77-246f-4dc9-b62c-8cc98b6f1109
“Dead of Night†6/4/07 – http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f3f83377-7b85-4ad8-8c27-e8167e59a412 –“Shock Troops†7/13/07 – http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=860c9bec-a77a-4786-a869-cc893a43c8b2
A Statement from Scott Thomas Beauchamp 7/26/07: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f05dd2f7-2a55-4c51-9d6e-922054f97ff6
A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp 8/2/07: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5f60f6be-9dc6-456c-93ce-249117645fed
A Scott Beauchamp Update 8/10/07: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=be58af95-1a50-4033-a62f-9ee7289e0619
Thanks, Ben. And stay tuned, folks, as there’s probably more to come. And Dan Riehl has some observations.
Stephen Spruiell has further thoughts. And there’s this observation: “It does seem bizarre to me, too, that TNR didn’t release these documents on their own. They are in an awful spot and it is made worse by not just providing everything they know. ”
And a lengthy analysis can be found here.
Meanwhile, InstaPunk moves on to the important stuff: casting the movie, Shattered Glass 2.
LAST WORD: From Gawker:
If the magazine had come forward with how this asshole blew them off, we suspect they’d have garnered a decent amount of support. Instead, it now looks like they were just hoping everyone would forget about the whole thing.
That seems right to me.