The footage shows members of Gallagher's SEAL Team 7 Alpha Platoon speaking to agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service about his conduct in Iraq. Read more: Germans think Trump is more dangerous than Kim Jong Un and Putin Trump intervened, against the Pentagon's advice that he could damage the integrity of the military judicial system and demanded that Gallagher's rank be restored. Gallagher was acquitted in July by a military jury of all but one charge of posing for a picture with a human casualty.
The now 40-year-old was accused of allegedly stabbing to death a captured, wounded 17-year-old "Islamic State" (IS) fighter in Iraq in May 2017. The comments were made in video footage shared with war crimes prosecutors, who investigated charges of premeditated murder by Eddie Gallagher. Esper then fired Spencer after learning that the Navy secretary had engaged in private negotiations with the White House that would have allowed a review of Gallagher to proceed.A Navy SEAL platoon leader who was tried for war crimes and later pardoned by US President Donald Trump was described as "toxic" and "freaking evil" by veterans who served with him in Iraq, the New York Times has reported. Over the weekend, Trump gave Defense Secretary Mark Esper a direct order to allow Gallagher to retire without losing his SEAL status. Three other SEAL officers who oversaw Gallagher during the Iraq deployment also were notified they were being reviewed. 19 notified Gallagher that he would be undergoing a peer-review process to determine whether he was still suitable to be a SEAL. Trump this month directed the Navy to restore Gallagher to his previous rank as he issued pardons to two Army soldiers. Shortly after the trial, Trump got involved again by ordering the Navy to withdraw commendations that prosecutors received for their work. Shortly after that, the president directed Navy Secretary Richard Spencer to release Gallagher from the brig in San Diego, where he was being held pending trial.
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