For this one, I’ll send you over to Bryan. Basically, their update claims Beauchamp only said what he said because a rep. from the Army was in the room, that Beauchamp later called Foer and stood by everything, that the Army leaked the transcripts to conservative blogs, etc.

The Army acknowledges the link, but doesn’t know who did it. They opened up an investigation immediately, and Drudge took down the entire leaked post. I don’t see a mention of that from Foer. Foer also offers no evidence that Beauchamp actually called, that he only refused to stand by it because of being under duress, etc.

Bryan says:

We are now to believe that two weeks after Scott Thomas Beauchamp issued the Mother of All No Comments to his editors at The New Republic on tape, he rang up Franklin Foer and told him that he still stood by all of his articles (minus the one little detail about shifting the melted woman story from the battlefield DFAC in Iraq to the rear echelon DFAC in Kuwait, and prior to Beauchamp’s entry in the war, details which render the story nonsense). We’re not supposed to notice that. We’re also not supposed to remember how TNR’s fact-checkers manipulated their Bradley subject matter expert with vague and misleading questions designed to lead the witness toward their point of view, rather than the facts, and we’re also not supposed to notice that to date TNR hasn’t responded to that allegation at all.

Again, more at Bryan’s.