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Just in case you do, Bob Owens got a bunch of documents on the Beauchamp affair via a FOIA request, and has been posting them this week. Here and here, we see that Beauchamp had gotten in trouble in the past for going AWOL, which gave his fellow soldiers reason to distrust him (one soldier says that Beauchamp has lied to his face twice). Here, we see TNR's FOIA request, in which they hilariously claim that their request should be expedited because "the news media has been questioning the integrity of the Army's investigation" (it was the TNR editors themselves, of course, who did most of the questioning). And here's Beauchamp's deliberately obfuscatory statement; he was telling the truth when he told Frank Foer that he'd tried to avoid contradicting his articles.