We haven’t had a Beauchamp update for a while now, mostly because there isn’t much to say. Beauchamp’s stories were a mix of exaggeration and outright fiction, and none of the tales has been corroborated by anyone other than TNR’s anonymous sources, at least one of whom has refuted TNR’s characterization of his statements when given an opportunity to speak on the record. TNR continues to pay lipservice to the questions raised by this magazine and other observers, but refuses to retract the stories. Further the editors at TNR haven’t spoken to Beauchamp since July 27, when he admitted that he did not ridicule a female IED victim at his base in Iraq as described in “Shock Troops,” just one day after he expressed outrage that anyone would dare to question his character or credibility. He now claims the incident happened at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, where a PAO has said she considers the story to be nothing more than “an urban legend.” There was an interesting report from Newsweek over the weekend that described TNR’s efforts to corroborate the stories as having “stalled”: