A great catch by Cole, who notes that a new CNN special should remind us that one of the chief witnesses in the extremely thin and frequently illogical witchhunt against Scott Beauchamp, First Sergeant John Hatleywas convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in cold blood:1SG Hatley...
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Elspeth Reeve reports. It's worth remembering in this context that wingnuts claimed that no solider could have run over a dog because it would violate SOP, which of course is.
The evidence that he made anything but trivial mistakes remains pretty much non-existent.
Spencer Ackerman has a very interesting article about Scott Beauchamp and Elspeth Reeve. The whole thing is very much worth reading. The executive summary:I ended up interviewing Beauchamp a couple times -- once in person and over email a couple times -- and did a...
I've long been skeptical about the Beauchamp stories, and wouldn't be surprised if more elements of them were proven false. Having said that, though, I see nothing objectionable here. Obviously,.