![]() But the charges were brought by his own men. The SEALs are a really closed group of people and we know very little about them as journalists. On who brought the charges against Gallagher Those were dropped, but, if he's convicted just of the murder, he's facing life in prison. There had been a couple of smaller charges for allegedly taking photos and video of one of the men that he killed. Also, a couple of attempted murders, obstruction of justice, drug possession. So, he was a person with a huge personality and he was a legend within the SEALs, highly respected.īoy, a host of charges. He was a medic, a sniper, an explosives expert - knew almost everything there was about being an elite warrior and for years was also an instructor at the SEALs training school which is called Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL. "Is it to obey the letter of the law or is it to stand by the other men that they went to war with?" Interview HighlightsĮven amongst the SEALs, who are an elite group of people, he was one of the top - 19-year career that was sprinkled with all sorts of awards for valor and good leadership. "We're seeing this fight play out of what is the duty of a SEAL," Philipps said. On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Dave Philipps. Joining on the line from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Philipps told On Second Thought that Gallagher's case reveals a Navy SEAL culture " split between loyalty and justice." But what Philipps has found, through interviews and hundreds of pages of internal military documents, defied expectations. When New York Times national correspondent Dave Philipps began reporting on Gallagher's case, he thought he might learn that Gallagher had suffered some kind of psychotic break as the result of numerous combat deployments over the course of nearly two decades. He and his family have denied all charges. But less than a year after Gallagher returned from his eighth deployment – fighting the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq – he drew a different kind of attention from the Navy: he was charged with war crimes, among them premeditated murder. Over his 19-year career with the Navy SEALs, Special Operations Chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher earned high honors for valor and leadership as a medic, sniper and explosives expert. One acquittal at a time.A bomb explodes behind the al-Nuri mosque complex, as seen through a hole in the wall of a house, as Iraqi Special Forces move toward Islamic State militant positions in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, June 29, 2017. “They’re going to waste an abundance of taxpayer dollars. “It defies logic and the plain meaning of justice,” said Sullivan. Prosecutors accuse the lieutenant of helping his platoon chief cover up crimes that a jury said Tuesday weren’t committed. On the day Gallagher was acquitted on all but one minor charge, military prosecutors pressed forward on Portier’s case and obtained a trial date of Sept. Now that Gallagher has been cleared, the spotlight falls on Portier’s upcoming trial. “Jake” Portier, the officer in charge of Gallagher’s SEAL platoon. Sullivan III, the defense attorney representing Lt. “President Trump should be working on getting him his Silver Star now,” said Jeremiah J. The maximum jail sentence for posing for photographs with a dead war casualty is four months, nearly half the time he already served during pretrial confinement in San Diego’s Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar.Ĭiting the highly decorated Gallagher’s service to the nation, President Donald J. The young Islamic State fighter authorities say was murdered by Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher. Parlatore called on Navy leaders, especially at Naval Special Warfare, the Office of the Judge Advocate General and NCIS to learn from the many mistakes made in a case he said never should’ve gone to trial. I did it.’ How many times have we had a judge find that the prosecutor spied on defense attorneys? I mean, how many times have we heard a forensic pathologist say, ‘I can’t determine cause of death?’ How many times have we had a witness say, ‘Oh, no. ![]() “In this case you had so many different things,” Parlatore said. Navy Times had uncovered records that suggested prosecutors and NCIS officials had not only withheld information that could have helped exonerate Gallagher but also hinted at how Scott truly recollected the detainee dying. Christopher Czaplak from the case after he admitted to emailing 13 defense attorneys and paralegals - plus the editor of Navy Times - a tracking beacon in a warrantless search for those who were leaking information to the media.
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