In his telling, Navy investigators, prosecutors, SEAL whistleblowers and reporters are either opportunists hoping to boost their careers by throwing him under the bus, or craven malcontents who weren't up to the rigors of combat or how Gallagher ran his platoon. As, Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Dalton Tolbert, 7 Veteran-Friendly Manufacturers That Are Hiring, The 6 Types Of Contractors You Encounter Overseas, Heres How Marines Fared On The New Physical Fitness Test. The problem was one mans insecurities, greed, and addiction. Who's fucking courtroom is this? Paul Szoldra "The Line" podcast ran for six episodes, starting in April 2021, and covers the same ground, using many of the same sources featured in the new documentary. Clip from Apple TVs documentary The Line featuring Eddie Gallagher, former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, and Navy SEAL Dylan Dille. These were part of Gallaghers effort to get a SEAL injured or killed so that we would, in his words, make it a great deployment. In the end, Gallagher showed us he wasnt our brother. 2 min read. Eddie's trial and detention dragged on for months and through it all; his wife, Andrea Gallagher, stood by his side. Blood started to pool and I knew it was a square hit in the back." Gallagher repeatedly sent us to positions where SEALs and our Iraqi partner forces were wounded or killed by small arms and rockets. Once court resumed with the jury present, Parlatore then asked whether Tolbert had ever said in text messages that he was going to burn this motherfucking court room to the ground, a reference to where the trial was taking place at Naval Base San Diego. "So I think that's why he waited until the actual trial to come out with it. When Tolbert said in a text message thread that they were planning to go to the SEAL Master Chief about Gallagher, Vriens wrote, "ha. These are the most notorious spies with the most successful espionage missions in history. Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. Published Jun 21, 2019 3:45 PM EDT. The decorated Navy SEAL had been accused of stabbing the wounded teenage. Tests found no blood on the knife or its scabbard, only a Middle Eastern man's DNA, which could have come from anyone from the Middle East touching the knife at some point. He told us there was a process to report these crimes and he had already notified our troop commander, Lt. Cmdr. So, in the end, that was what he was convicted of. After repeatedly changing his story and denying that he killed the teenage prisoner at all, he finally conceded a half-truth on Apple TVs The Line documentary: He admitted to killing the prisoner, just not in the manner that my teammates saw, or in the way that he told me and other SEALs. NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO Testimony in the military trial of Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher earlier this week revealed that an active-duty member of SEAL Team 6 had disparaged the judge. "But just because you go through BUD/S, just because you have enough grit to make it through, does not make you an actual SEAL. He was convicted on one. Gallagher also sees a "line that's being drawn" between the officers and enlisted in the Teams. Gallagher said that the platoon intended to kill the ISIS fighter by calling in multiple Hellfire missiles on the compound where he and other ISIS fighters and commanders were located. How did Gallagher's team rebut those witnesses? Eddie Gallagher is living a quieter life now in Florida after being thrust into the national spotlight, accused of 10 different war crimes. Time to man the fuck up fags., If the motherfucking courthouse burned down, I did it, Tolbert wrote, according to the source. CBS News The rest of that video has vanished, but three SEALs said they. Contact the author here. Two Navy SEAL snipers testified Friday that their chief, Edward R. Gallagher, shot at civilians on at least two occasions during their 2017 deployment to Iraq. By Julie Watson, Brian Melley, Associated Press. "Our medic at the time pretty much nursed him to death," he said. Dille told the court that Gallagher, as his instructor during BUD/S training, said that if an enemy combatant was captured, "the medics know what to do to nurse him to death. Navy will not pursue action against Gallagher after comments on murdered captive Eddie Gallagher was charged with murdering 17-year-old Khaled Jamal Abdullah in 2018, along with other. Gallagher, a chief special. Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher sniping at Islamic State fighters in Iraq. I figured this must have been some feeble attempt concocted with the prosecution to prove premeditation.". "Chiefs walked on eggshells, worried about offending the SEALs under them, fearing retaliation.". At no time is loyalty to each other put over loyalty to the country and mission. After two weeks of testimony, Chief Edward Gallagher was found not guilty of murdering a suspected ISIS prisoner in Iraq. "Not the type of mutiny back in the day on ships with swords, but one executed through text messages and whispers by a group of malcontents who would say anything to take down a boss they hated.". And Miller was "weak-bodied," "weak-minded," and "the idiot puppet of Dille and Dalton Tolbert.". Parlatore said that information in the video about the SEALs was already known. Its pathetic. Gallagher was accused of several war crimes by some of his platoon subordinates, including that he shot civilians and stabbed a wounded ISIS fighter in the neck, killing him, while in Iraq in 2017. The Line looks back at one of the controversial military war crimes cases of recent yearsthe trial of Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL accused of murdering an Iraqi prisonerand presents multiple . Was Gallagher the victim of jealous SEALs who didn't like his tough command? Gallagher said an intravenous infusion was attempted, he thinks by Byrne, but it was unsuccessful. "I joined the military, and then the SEAL Teams, to serve my country and kill our nation's enemies. "The people you're lying about are your current teammates, correct?" Tolbert is expected to testify on Friday. When our injured partners from the Iraqi Army flooded into our casualty collection point, our medics spent their free time saving their lives. 6x9 hardcover with over 400 pages of never-before-revealed information; 12 pages of color photographs of Chief Gallagher and his family; 27 QR codes for additional content, including accusers' NCIS interviews, trial audio, and text message threads . ", In another instance, after former SEAL Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Cross recipient, criticized those who had reported Gallagher as "cowards," Vriens texted the group: "I can't help but shake my head when Marcus Luttrell calls people cowards. Would we do something different if we could go back in time? 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"Because what they were going to do -- what they always did -- is chop him up in front of us or somehow torture him and mutilate him. And they certainly dont murder unarmed prisoners or terrorize civilian populations. He made the tactical decisions and we carried them out. "I assume they care about killing civilians," he said. ", When asked if he has ever considered whether he may not be the good guy in this tale, Gallagher said that, when he was first imprisoned, he did a lot of thinking back over his time as chief to try to figure out why his fellow SEALs would "go to this length to put me away for life.". For nearly two years, the Navy peddled lies to news outlets that Eddie had shot a little girl and stabbed to death a dying ISIS fighter. Gallagher, a 15-year Navy SEAL, was found not guilty of murdering an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter in Iraq in 2017, as well as charges of witness intimidation and assault. Though acquitted, Gallagher is a war criminal. And dont think for a second the bureaucracy ever admits it got everything wrong. Of the zig zag pattern, Tolbert said he had "misspoke" then and explained that his testimony on Friday was truthful because he "had more time to remember" what happened. Gallagher said he thinks his case -- and the lightning rod for controversy he has become -- has brought out "the elephant in the room" about the conflict over how wars should be fought. He went on to describe them as an angry mob of the entire conservative media and former SEALs. The moral hazard is a system that sends troops to war and then sacrifices them to some perverse political agenda when they return home. And instead of owning that, they put that blame on me.". (courtesy photo) For nearly two years, the Navy peddled lies to news outlets that Eddie had shot a little girl and. All appear on camera. Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. "It was the same scenario; the fighter was going out and that was it," he said. Other girls ran away while one girl, who was wearing a blue dress, attempted to drag the wounded girl away to safety. Gallagher responded that just because they made it through BUD/S and received their trident didn't mean they were up for combat, or were even real SEALs. Retired Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who was acquitted of brutal war crimes, posted a video on Facebook and Instagram on Monday, labeling his former teammates . Where were these critics when investigators admitted Eddies entire pretrial imprisonment was based on a lie, forcing him to spend eight months in a sex offender brig for nothing? What did I do as a leader to make them do something like this? 6,039 posts. Those SEALs called their own group chat the "Sewing Circle. That was basically good time. ", "From there, it just became, this guy's going out, and every procedure after that was done for just training," Gallagher said. The message your brass and bureaucracy is sending you is clear. Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher accused the Navy Secretary and a rear admiral of "meddling" in his case before mocking those who accused him of war crimes of and thanking President Trump. When he first took charge as the chief of Team 7's Alpha Platoon, he wrote, his work was cut out for him. ", One of the central pieces of evidence in Gallagher's trial was a photograph of him with the prisoner's corpse, holding up a hunting knife, that he texted to a friend with the caption, "Good story behind this. So he served none of this four-month sentence, so he was able to drive off right after the right after his case was over today. Theres nothing in that video thats not already public, he told the newspaper. Special Operator 1st Class Josh Vriens is a former Navy SEAL sniper who served in Alpha Platoon under Eddie Gallaghers command. We had given him the benefit of the doubt for a long time, but all that did was enable him. But, on this last charge, the least serious of the seven charges, the jury decided to give him the maximum sentence, which is this four months in jail, and they reduced him in rank from a chief petty officer to a petty officer 1st class. You heard me right.