What A Tangled Web
SOC Eddie Gallagher
Now it has gone to weighing the evidence.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/07/02/panel-weighs-fate-of-seal-accused-of-war-crimes/
From the article: SAN DIEGO — A Navy SEAL murdered a wounded war prisoner in Iraq in 2017 and the proof is his own words, his own photos and the testimony of his fellow troops, a military prosecutor told a jury Monday.
Defense attorneys called it a “mutiny” by entitled, junior SEALs trying to oust a demanding chief.
The case of the highly decorated Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher is now in the hands of a jury of five Marines and two sailors, including a SEAL, many of whom had been in heavy combat in Iraq.
Both sides told jurors that witnesses had lied on the stand and it was their duty to push through the evidence to find the truth. The panel will weigh whether Gallagher, a 19-year veteran on his eighth deployment, went off the rails and fatally stabbed the war prisoner on May 3, 2017, as a kind of trophy kill, or was the victim of allegations fabricated after the platoon returned to San Diego to stop him from getting a Silver Star and being advanced. – Article
Did he or didn’t he? Is this collusion of some kind from a bunch of whiny sailors trying to stop Gallagher’s advancement? Or did he really do it?
If you have ever worked for someone who is an abrasive SOB, you keep hoping that some day, he’ll drop dead and no one will come to his funeral. If, on the other hand, that same someone’s been filching cash from the company’s accounts, and you saw him doing it – and everybody knows about it – well, you know that someone is going to go under, period, once it’s reported.
So we’re left out here on the outside with trying to figure out which way the wind really does blow on this business. But there was no blood on his knife in the photo of it, and there were no stab wounds in the dead jihadi’s neck. Those guys all posed with the dead jihadi. That “beyond a reasonable doubt” thing comes up here.
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.
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Alice gonna lead the Chief right on out of that rabbit hole cause the jury sees the light.
Wonder who, if anyone, is going to take the hit for this sh^t show even starting? No recourse for false charges/malicious prosecution under UCMJ is there? I have been a victim of false charges. Know all about that whole “guilty til proven innocent” thing.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
If there is nothing else, there is a whole boatload of reasonable doubt. Which should argue for acquittal, like it or not.
That’s how I see it too, David. Somebody is lying, probably lots of somebodies. Now the jury has to wade through all that crap to come to a unanimous decision. I expect deliberations to be lengthy.
Shows what I know. I guess the jury got through the BS pretty quick.
It is nice, and slightly out of character, that nobody has called me on it. 🙂
I don’t see a homicide conviction for either the ISIS Jihadi or the pair of civilians. I have no idea if the jury was briefed on lessor charges, which it’s where it will get interesting.
No physical evidence, but let’s try to convict a patriot for murder.
Yup.
Thanks you government for a bang up job. NCIS should self immolate and take gibs with them.
Once he gets found Innocent I hope his Prosecutors get taken to the proverbial cleaners!
Command pressure trumps “reasonable doubt” every time. The light at the end of the tunnel is President Trump will more than likely pardon the Chief if the board does not do the right thing.
FUCKING A!!!! NOT GUILTY!!!!
Well no duh.
Now I hope that some of those “professionals” get a boot dead up their ass, sideways..
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/jury-finds-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher-not-guilty-of-war-crimes
Good news indeed ChipNASA! Leave it to you to beat Navy and be the FIRST to break the news to all of us TAHellcats.
You da man!
Well, the jury gave the prosecutors a “win”, of sorts. They found the Chief guilty of taking a picture of the dead ISIS asshole.
Yes, and that could have him serve 4 months for it. However, since he’s already served 6 months awaiting trial, it’s a wash and it’s only a symbolic win for the prosecutors. And they need it because a lot of people’s asses are on the line and not Chief Gallagher.
Does he get to keep the picture?
BREAKING NEWS
Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher found not guilty on murder and attempted murder charges
A jury found decorated Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher not guilty Tuesday on almost all charges he was facing, including murder and attempted murder, in the killing of an Islamic State member in Iraq.
“snicker”
POOF!
They will still end his carrier.
Its time for the brass to remove some tridents from the insolent SEAL pups. They can be EX-SEALS for BUDS131 to expose later on.
Right after I put up the above comment on the non guilty charge, I got my online Navy Times making it official but the copy and paste failed. above article was from Fox News.