Game over for The New Republic: Beauchamp Investigation Concluded.

After a thorough investigation that lasted nearly a week the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division has concluded that the allegation(s) made by Private Thomas Scott Beauchamp, the “Baghdad Diarist”, have been

“refuted by members of his platoon and proven to be false”

The official investigation the 4th IBCT Public Affairs Office qualified as “thorough and professional” concluded late August 1st. Officials would not speculate on the possibility of further action against Private Beauchamp, nor would they confirm his current whereabouts or status.

UPDATE at 8/3/07 8:14:59 am:

Creepy Max Blumenthal is frantically smearing everyone involved, to try to protect Beauchamp, the left’s poster boy for military bad behavior. Here’s the URL: maxblumenthal.com/archives/178. I won’t link directly to his vile post, but copy and paste if you’d like to see how the tolerant left is behaving over this.

UPDATE at 8/3/07 8:30:32 am:

Bob Owens has been in touch with the PAO of the base in Kuwait where Beauchamp claims the “burned woman” incident happened, and this claim also appears to be false: Confederate Yankee: Breaking: Kuwait-Based Army PAO Calls Beauchamp/New Republic Claim an ‘Urban Legend or Myth’.