I have always found it disturbing that members of his team supposedly testified against him. SEALS are trained to have each others backs to the very end.
And, if there was any "sin" it was Gallagher bragging about his exploits as a SEAL to other members of the team.
So, to the government case.
Assuming that the witnesses even show up — at least three of them have threatened to assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refuse to testify, according to emails provided to Navy Times.
One of the SEALs is particularly prized by prosecutors because he allegedly was an eyewitness to the murder, but he’s prepared to go to the brig rather than testify in Gallagher’s trial, according to an email provided to Navy Times.
And others have declined to participate in the ongoing NCIS probe, including a Marine staff sergeant and a pair of Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians attached to the platoon during the 2017 deployment.
Say what? It appears his fellow SEALS weren't ratting him out after all. Check out
What motivated fellow SEALs to dime out Eddie Gallagher?
None of that is true.
A half dozen SEALs are on record testifying against Gallaghar.
It is not only pretty clear he is guilty, but a real jerk.
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One of the members of Gallagher’s unit — Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7 — is expected to testify that Gallagher confessed that he “killed four women,” according to Naval Criminal Investigative Service files and legal records provided to Navy Times.
Two other SEAL petty officers told investigators Gallagher bragged about slaying “10-20 people a day or 150-200 people on deployment,” court documents state.
And a fellow sniper intends to tell the panel that Gallagher claimed, “he averaged three kills a day over 80 days,” according to legal filings obtained by Navy Times.
Three other SEALs are slated to say their platoon chief took "random shots, sometimes into buildings, where he claimed to have killed someone,” similar filings allege.
One of the SEALs overhead the chief say he was “OK with shooting women” and another saw him “fire into a crowd of what appeared to be noncombatants multiple times," records state.
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The fact Trump may have tampered with the witnesses, does not at all prove Gallaghar is innocent.
And anyone fighting in the Mideast clearly is guilty of something.
There is no legal basis for any fighting in the Mideast, and anyone fighting there is a criminal.