[NOTE: I've been covering the "Baghdad Diarist" story since July, and here's a checklist of articles: master list to August 14; an almost complete list pre- and post-August in "A Convenient Leak for Dan Quayle’s Brain" 10/25 (which was featured on Salon's blog report October 30, and The Moderate Voice 10/27), and "Colonel Boylan Goes off the Reservation," 10/28]
New Republic editor Franklin Foer caved on Saturday, using the old Bush Administration technique of releasing bad news so that it will vanish in the flaccid weekend news cycle.
Franklin Foer, after months of intimidation over one story (out of three), wrote an exceptionally long, legalistic blizzard of hair-splitting, concluding with this gutless pronouncement: Continue reading
