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  • Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher sues Navy secretary, NY Times reporter, alleging smear campaign

    06/01/2020 2:16:40 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 01 2020 | Louis Casiano
    Retired Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is suing Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite and a New York Times reporter, claiming Navy officials leaked personal documents to the newspaper in an attempt to smear him and pressure him into taking a plea deal over war-crimes charges. Gallagher, a 15-year SEAL, was found not guilty last year of killing a teen Islamic State fighter in 2017, shooting at unarmed Iraqi civilians and other criminal charges. However, he was convicted of posing with a corpse for photos in a highly charged case that had been marred by a series of prosecutorial missteps. The lawsuit, filed...
  • Eddie Gallagher controversy: Esper fires Navy secretary amid Navy SEAL case, Pentagon says

    11/24/2019 2:48:33 PM PST · by Widget Jr · 134 replies
    Fox News ^ | November 24, 2019 | Andrew O'Reilly, Vandana Rambaran
    Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Sunday over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL who posed for a photo next to an Islamic State terrorist's corpse in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday. “Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper has asked for the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer after losing trust and confidence in him regarding his lack of candor over conversations with the White House involving the handling of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher," Department of Defense spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement Sunday. Controversy continued to swirl around whether...