Military Trials - Page 8

May 30, 2019

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher released from custody ahead of murder trial

A Navy SEAL accused of killing an injured teenage ISIS prisoner of war in Iraq was freed from custody on Thursday by a military judge as a move to rectify unsanctioned tracking of the defense team's emails.

May 28, 2019

Hunter admits he posed in photo with dead enemy, says 'a lot of us have done the exact same thing'

Rep. Duncan Hunter admitted that he took a picture with a dead combatant during his time as a Marine.

May 24, 2019

Sean Gallagher: Possible pardons for my brother, others are about saving military justice, not upending it

The leak from a Pentagon staffer to the New York Times last Saturday about the president requesting pardon paperwork for soldiers, including my brother, was executed to perfection.

May 23, 2019

Pete Hegseth: I’m with the warfighters — Count me out of second-guessing our heroes

We send men to fight on our behalf, and too often second guess the manner in which they fight. I’ve been on the battlefield and that’s why I feel so passionately about this issue.

May 16, 2019

Navy SEAL pleads guilty in hazing death of Green Beret during Africa deployment

A Navy SEAL pleaded guilty Thursday in the hazing death of a Green Beret soldier, detailing the late-night plot to break into 34-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar's room with a sledgehammer, put him in a chokehold and restrain him with duct tape.

May 14, 2019

Wife of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher says military prosecutors should be investigated over ‘criminal wrongdoing’

The wife of the Navy SEAL accused of killing an injured ISIS prisoner of war in Iraq tells Fox News that someone is going to have to “start investigating these investigators” after his lawyers claimed military prosecutors were spying on them with tracking software hidden inside emails.

May 13, 2019

Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher’s lawyers say military prosecutors spied by hiding tracking software in emails

Lawyers representing the decorated Navy SEAL accused of killing an injured ISIS prisoner of war in Iraq are now accusing military prosecutors of installing tracking software in emails in an apparent attempt to find out who is leaking information to the media about the case.

May 9, 2019

Trump reportedly taking broad look at veterans convicted of battlefield crimes

President Trump, who in recent days pardoned a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, is taking a broad look at military veterans jailed for battlefield crimes and considering granting more of them similar relief.

April 12, 2019

Wife of detained Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher says Trump is ‘being lied to’ about her husband's treatment

The wife of the decorated Navy SEAL accused of committing war crimes told Fox News on Friday that she wants to “let the president know he is being lied to” about the way her husband is being treated ahead of his trial.

April 10, 2019

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s commander defying Trump’s orders, trying to send him ‘back to the brig’: lawyers

The legal team representing Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher is now accusing his commander of undermining orders from President Trump by imposing “unnecessary and punitive restrictions” on the decorated warfighter in hopes to entrap him and get him “remanded back to the brig.”