More Beauchamp

FYI: Though The Weekly Standard reported this morning that Scott Beauchamp has recanted, The New Republic has now issued a new statement possibly calling into question the veracity of that report:

We've talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. Lamb and asked about an anonymously sourced allegation that Beauchamp had recanted his articles in a sworn statement, he told us, "I have no knowledge of that." He added, "If someone is speaking anonymously [to The Weekly Standard], they are on their own." When we pressed Lamb for details on the Army investigation, he told us, "We don't go into the details of how we conduct our investigations."

Thanks to John Cole for the heads-up. I'm now officially sick to the tits of this story.