BRUCE ROLSTON says he’s got a bunch of stuff that supports what he calls the revisionist version of the Jessica Lynch story. But no blanks. And without that, there’s no story, really — just a claim that things weren’t as dangerous as they might have been, and that the Pentagon got as much PR out of the event as it could, neither of which strikes me as earthshaking.

When the BBC put out its story, the selling point was that the Lynch rescue was a fraud, staged with fake guns and fake explosions (that mysteriously weren’t used in the video the Pentagon released). That’s been pretty thoroughly blown out of the water. What’s left is Monday-morning quarterbacking over military tactics and over PR strategy.

UPDATE: TAPPED, which is hard to paint as a water-carrier for Bush and Rumsfeld, agrees that Kampfner is ducking questions about the BBC’s story.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s more on a different Lynch-related issue:

The Washington Post reported that she staged a fierce fight before capture, emptying a gun and killing Iraqi attackers before being stabbed and shot herself.

But two Pentagon officials in interviews cast doubt on that report. The officials said all evidence suggests that Pfc. Lynch’s truck crashed in the chaos of the ambush in the central Iraqi town of Nasiriyah. She suffered several bone fractures and was in no position to put up a fight, the officials said.

But a final determination will await the commander’s inquiry, or “15-6,” which refers to the regulation authorizing such investigations

What’s interesting about this is that — contrary to the revisionists’ spin — this makes clear that a lot of the Lynch stories didn’t originate with the Pentagon to begin with.