The second prosecutor on the case, Marine Capt. The Navy said it would obey the order. “Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher is entitled to a fair trial and the Navy is committed to upholding that principle,” said Brian O’Rourke, a Navy spokesman. One member of Congress who had served in combat announced that like Chief Gallagher, he had taken photos of himself with dead bodies. Chief Gallagher is accused of shooting two unarmed civilians — an old man and a school-age girl — from a sniper’s post during a 2017 deployment in Iraq, and stabbing a captive, wounded Islamic State fighter to death during the same deployment.

Source: New York Times June 04, 2019 00:52 UTC