U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Wednesday revoked awards given to several...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Wednesday revoked awards given to several military prosecutors in the court-martial of a Navy SEAL who was acquitted of murdering an Iraqi prisoner but convicted of unlawfully posing for photos with his dead body.
It marked the third time the president has publicly commented directly on the case of the combat veteran, who was accused of committing various war crimes while deployed in Iraq in 2017. A military jury in San Diego acquitted the decorated platoon leader of charges that he murdered a captured Islamic State fighter by stabbing the wounded prisoner in the neck.
In his tweet storm on Wednesday, Trump criticized the Navy prosecutors as having “lost the case” and “for giving immunity in a totally incompetent fashion.” Trump also took credit for having released Gallagher “from solitary confinement so he could fight his case properly.”Gallagher, 40, was spared any prison time beyond the nearly seven months he had spent in pretrial custody. But the jury sentenced him to a demotion in rank and pay for the crime of posing in pictures with a human casualty.
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