It has now been six days since the first doubts about the veracity of the New Republic diarist written by the pseudonymous Scott Thomas were raised in the blogosphere. The magazine is evidently still conducting its investigation. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that if what’s in there is in any way true, TNR would know it by now. Or maybe TNR is just too busy getting the New York Times to change its copy around multiple times on the question of the epistemological certainty of Editor Franklin Foer’s knowledge of whether Scott Thomas is actually a soldier.