Well, now… no WONDER [1]Foer was keeping so silent.
Michelle [2]says it very well indeed:
I repeat Ace’s distillation for those who have only superficial knowledge of this scandal: Remember: TNR Hid The Existence Of This Phone Call From The World.
To paraphrase the Clintons: It’s the cover-up, stupid.
And TNR’s sliming of The Weekly Standard.
And TNR’s false allegations that the military was censoring Beauchamp.
And TNR’s pathetic attempts to wrest control of the story from Beauchamp as he attempted to tell other media outlets that he was not being gagged, use Beauchamp’s wife as a wedge, and refusal to acknowledge the truth of their journalistic malpractice.
Get it?
Franklin Foer, now exposed as a liar, reacts like a good little liberal. and complains that the documents were leaked:
“It’s maddening to see the Army selectively leak to the Drudge Report things that we’ve been trying to obtain from them through Freedom of Information Act requests,” Mr. Foer said. “This fits a pattern in this case where the army has leaked a lot of stuff to right wing blogs.”
Mr. Foer said TNR had been trying since July to get access to some of the documents Mr. Drudge posted, but that the Army had not cooperated.
As one of Michelle’s readers suggests, is he really saying, here, that he was waiting for access to a conversation that he was originally a party to? Why not just be honest instead of playing for time?
Further, Foer suggests that the military who leaked the transcript. On what basis does he make that charge? It seems obvious that the credibility meter of The New Republic is about as close to zero no matter.
Memeorandum [3] has a nice collection of links on this subject.