This afternoon’s response from the New Republic to the serious and widely reported doubts about the credibility of their Baghdad Diarist–the magazine avoided entirely the doubts about its own investigation–has spurred some insightful commentary from the blogs that have been tracking this story from the start. As we mentioned yesterday, Bryan does an excellent job parsing the statement over at Hot Air and the invaluable Ace of Spades blog does some analysis of its own. Quoting a statement from July 27 in which TNR editor Frank Foer claims that “At least one soldier in the unit had already confirmed the events described,” Ace responds: