IIRC, the problem was that the prosecution used lying, false witnesses to build their case. I don’t know if it he judge was part of the problem, or he just bought the prosecution’s case as presented.
What stank about this, is that once it was realized that he was innocent, it looks like the Navy felt they had to get him on something, hence the photograph charge.
Others, please jump in.
The problem with the posing with a dead ISIS fighter is that Gallagher was in a group of people who posed with the corpse in the picture, yet Gallagher was the only one who faced disciplinary charges....
That does make it seem that he was being singled out and blamed for something even though he had served several months in prison leading up to the charge...
“What stank about this, is that once it was realized that he was innocent, it looks like the Navy felt they had to get him on something, hence the photograph charge.
Others, please jump in.”
Okay..
Gallagher was found innocent of all of the charges except the one concerning the photograph and rightly so. He made himself available for court-martial on that one with the public photos and may get a number of people killed or mistreated by his actions.
Please research the Hebdo incident. Here’s one site:
There’s more than meets the eye in war. Please research the Geneva Convention article 16 in particular. It will possibly change your mind on why the charge concerning the photo was determined to be guilty.
rwood
the Navy felt they had to get him on something, hence the photograph charge.....Exactly. They were embarrased by the medals they “high fived” each other with.