Lead Navy prosecutor in SEAL war crime case out over email spying https://www.navytimes.com/news/2019/06/04/lead-navy-prosecutor-in-seal-war-crime-case-out-over-email-spying/ >Navy Cmdr. Christopher Czaplak was ordered off the case against Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher by the judge, Navy Capt. Aaron Rugh, on Monday after Czaplak admitted emailing 13 defense attorneys and paralegals, as well as Navy Times editor Carl Prine, a tracking beacon in an effort to find the source of leaks to the media. First SEAL to complain about Gallagher first to get weapons permit https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/jul/12/ticker-first-seal-complain-gallagher-first-get/# >In spite of testimony that a half dozen Navy SEAL witnesses who agreed to testify against Navy Special Operations Chief Ed Gallagher were offered permits to carry concealed weapons, only one permit has been issued. The prosecutor, himself, filled out the paperwork for his witnesses to get special concealed carry permits for exotic weapons. Witnesses were also handed out promotions. Despite the attempt to frame Gallagher for murder, the story is clear. A young enemy combatant barely survived an explosion that killed many others, was captured, was suffering from extreme pulmonary trauma, where the medics attempted a tracheotomy. When the local Iraqi militia showed up to take the dying prisoner, a person other than Gallagher, asphyxiated him to save him from torture by the Iraqis. This court case reflects an internal struggle within the SEAL's that Bill McRaven's legacy left behind because he loved Obama and hated Trump. There is no place for that BS in the military. The only reason the Bin Laden raid happened is because people ignored orders to stand down. Some military leaders are borderline treasonous in their actions and are in clear violation of the UCMJ. Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher not guilty of murder in ISIS detainee's death https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/politics/eddie-gallagher-navy-seal-trial-verdict/index.html >Decorated Navy SEAL team leader Eddie Gallagher was acquitted of nearly all charges in the death of an ISIS prisoner in Iraq, including premeditated murder. Is SEAL war crimes suspect Eddie Gallagher innocent? >According to the defense motion, the SEAL’s words offer “a significantly exculpatory alternative theory” of the boy’s death, information so significant that it promises to “completely eviscerate” the prosecution’s theory of the case and “explains why so many of the witnesses are reticent to fully tell their stories." Medic testifies that he killed ISIS prisoner of war, not Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher https://www.kusi.com/medic-testifies-that-he-not-navy-seal-eddie-gallagher-killed-the-isis-prisoner-of-war/ >Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s defense speak to reporters after bombshell testimony from Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott who said he asphyxiated the ISIS fighter. KUSI’s Ginger Jeffries talked to Defense Attorney Tim Parlatore further about what happened in trial today. Fatou Bensouda was the one originally tasked with trying to trump up war crimes charges against US troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda >In November 2017, Bensouda advised the court to consider seeking charges for human rights abuses committed during the War in Afghanistan Initially, she stalled, but she had a change of heart after the death of her son. >After a series of difficulties with the law, George Bensouda was shot dead outside a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 29, 2017. I think it is important to note that Bensouda comes from a history of working with corrupt regimes in Africa, as in participates with them not against them, and that the ICC has never had a positive impact upon a country's quality of life with it's trials. Corrupt or ineffectual; you decide. Either way, the US is not a third world country with child soldiers and no means with which to prosecute its own people within its own country who are not hiding out from the law. The ICC has no place interfering and trying to prosecute US troops. Given it's lack of impact, it seems the ICC is long overdue for some soul searching as to its real purpose. In the midst of all of this with the ICC and the "Mean Girls" giving testimony against Eddie Gallagher, the FBI War Crimes Unit was shut down. FBI’s War Crimes Unit on the Chopping Block https://www.justsecurity.org/62548/exclusive-fbis-war-crimes-unit-chopping-block/ Bensouda was denied entry to the US. U.S. revokes ICC prosecutor's entry visa over Afghanistan investigation >https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-icc-prosecutor/u-s-revokes-icc-prosecutors-entry-visa-over-afghanistan-investigation-idUSKCN1RG2NP >The United States has revoked the entry visa of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, her office said on Thursday, a response to her inquiry into possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. This is all a good thing. Why, you ask? The security threat is clear: A lawyer from Malta could accept fabricated evidence from any enemy on the battlefield, confirmed or not, and start tying up special operators and elite units by peppering them with war crimes cases. It would be idiocy to allow corrupt/enemy forces to work against our military in that way. Imagine if ISIS staged attacks against themselves and blamed whoever they wanted and had them prosecuted at the Hague. In fact, ABC News is doing just that: ABC apologizes for mistaking Kentucky gun range video for Turkish bombing of Syria https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-news-error-gun-video-syria-turkey >ABC issued a correction and apology Monday for reportedly using video from a Kentucky gun range while falsely claiming it depicted a fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Turkish forces. So, for the same reasons that ABC spread this propaganda, there is a dishonest agenda about Eddie Gallagher being spread around. False narratives happen. Fact checking is important. Whatever differences of opinion may exist across party lines, Eddie Gallagher did not do what he was charged with. That is factual.