And on his latest deployment to Iraq, he was turned in by his own men. So this is a guy who had served almost 20 years in the Marines and the Navy SEALs and had eight deployments and a chest full of commendations for heroic actions. Dave Philipps, who covers the military for The Times, on what he learned from the verdict.ĭave, the last time we talked, you told us about the allegations against Navy chief Edward Gallagher just as his case was heading into trial. Today: The trial of Navy SEAL chief Edward Gallagher offered rare insight into a culture that is, by design, difficult to penetrate. michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. We look at what the not-guilty verdict says about the culture within the elite force. In a surprise twist during the trial’s first week, a Navy SEAL medic testified that it was he, not Gallagher, who caused the death of the gravely injured Iraqi detainee by blocking his breathing tube in what the witness described as a mercy killing.Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Trial of a Navy SEAL Chief Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by Rachel Quester and Michael Simon Johnson, with help from Jazmín Aguilera and Marc Georges, and edited by Lisa Tobin Prosecutors said it was a murder. ![]() The closing arguments capped an otherwise bumpy two weeks for Navy prosecutors. “We know the death of this individual is a direct result of Chief Gallagher’s stabbing this individual in the neck with his hunting knife,” the prosecutor said. Pietrzyk cited a photo that Gallagher sent to a friend in May 2017 showing him posed with the Iraqi detainee’s corpse, with the text message: “I got a cool story for you when I get back. ![]() The senior prosecutor, Navy Commander Jeffrey Pietrzyk, asserted, however, that Gallagher had implicated himself. “No body, no evidence, no science, no forensics, no case,” Parlatore declared. He also pointed to a lack of physical evidence to bolster the charges.
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