![]() Within months of the two-week trial, then-President Donald Trump - who had previously tweeted out support for Gallagher - restored Gallagher’s rank and pay.ĭavid Philipps, a reporter for The New York Times who extensively covered Gallagher’s case using 500 pages of leaked Navy documents and attended the two-week trial, recently released a book about the case called “Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and The War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs.” The conviction came with four months of confinement, which Gallagher received credit for time served, as he was detained pre-trial in the brig. ![]() Navy to reduce Gallagher’s rank from an E7 to an E6 and his responsibilities, salary and pension benefits with it. Gallagher was exonerated on the most egregious war crimes charges in a court martial held in San Diego in 2019 where he was accused of stabbing a teenage Islamic State group fighter to death after the young man had been wounded.Ī jury of Gallagher’s peers found he was only guilty of posing for illegal pictures taken of the IS fighter, prompting the U.S. SAN DIEGO (CN) - A Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for The New York Times dodged a lengthy list of defamation claims Monday in a case brought against him by the subject of his newly published book: former Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |