Hatley was serving as Beauchamp’s Company First Sergeant in Iraq at the time that Beauchamp authored a diary published as an article in The New Republic, an American Leftist political magazine. Subsequently a conservative blogger, looking for information on Beauchamp’s claims, initiated an email exchange with Hatley. Hatley’s response refuting Beauchamp’s stories was then published. […]

Hatley was convicted of killing four Iraqi detainees, despite the fact that there was no physical evidence, no bodies found, no missing people reported and the only testimony came from other soldiers who themselves were facing discipline. The three were serving time at the military prison in Leavenworth, Kansas for alleged war crimes. PLATTE CITY, […]