Take that, Weekly Standard. In The New Republic's ongoing saga about its "Baghdad Diarist" column (keep up, people), EIC Franklin Foer and his team claim to have vetted and confirmed every detail about Scott Thomas Beauchamp's heavily contested accounts of U.S. solider life in Iraq.

Well, except for one: The place where soldiers mocked a woman disfigured by a bomb explosion. It was not in Baghdad, but Kuwait. Aside from that, the magazines says they "place great weight on the corroborations we have received, [but] we wished to know more." Unfortunately, the U.S. military began its own investigation into Beauchamp's claims – like soliders running over a dog, or playing with the skulls of Iraqi children – and cut his phone and computer access for speaking so publicly.

Which, if you believe many conservative bloggers' viewpoint, is exactly what TNR would've wanted: Another excuse to play pick-and-choose journalism and finger the military as evildoers. As for the Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb, well, he's still not satisfied.