The effort to prove or disprove the New Republic‘s “Shock Troops” story (see here, here, and here for background, or just scroll down) got a bit of a boost today as the Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz examined the growing doubts surrounding the “Scott Thomas” piece under the headline “Bloggers Raise Red Flags Over New Republic’s ‘Baghdad Diarist’.” Here’s what New Republic editor Franklin Foer had to say about the questions raised by the WWS and so many others: