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Originally Posted by Outofdodge  "Army spokesman Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl said its inquiry is ongoing at the unit level. Beauchamp can't be punished for his views, but he faces the possibility of an administrative, or noncriminal, charge if the Army determines he lied in his writings"
hmm, if the Army determines he lied in his writings? |
Outdated report.
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Originally Posted by Outofdodge You and others don't like what was written. So the writer has to be attacked ? I don't read that website nor rarely ge the parent magazine so I guess I will remain blissfully unaware of what was actually printed in total.... |
He’s being “attacked” as you call it because he made false statements, not because he wrote something that some folks didn’t like. If you actually did your homework you would know that much of what he wrote wasn’t passing the smell test and that’s why it was checked out.
Like the disfigured woman at FOB Falcon that he claimed to have made fun of. Seems that no one at FOB Falcon remembered ever seeing the woman that was described. Suddenly the story changed to have occurred in Kuwait and it was downhill from there.
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Originally Posted by Outofdodge The Weekly Standard says they've been proven false, the Army hasn't. I don't know who to believe and that includes the Weekly Standard. I find it hard to believe if the Army had that statement then it would be all over the press wires. |
So Maj. Steven F. Lamb, deputy public affairs officer in Baghdad is chopped liver?
It is over the press wires. Just because you haven’t noticed doesn’t make it not so.
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Originally Posted by Outofdodge Read your posted quotes again and the entire NY Times article. It seems they can't even get consistent when reporting quotes. When the Army issues the official version then they issue the official version. Until nothing has been proven or disproved. |
Actually I read it twice before I posted it because I thought the same thing until I reread it more closely. You might want to try it.
I think Maj. Lamb is close enough to an official.
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Originally Posted by Outofdodge BTW, the soldier's spousal working relationship was disclosed to the rest of the world when his identity was revealed. |
The greater point is that it wasn’t disclosed until TNR was forced to disclose it after the fact.