![]() ![]() To military experts, this level of presidential intervention is not just shocking, but damaging for the system writ large, with implications for the climate of command, for military discipline, and for the safety of whistleblowers. The others include Matthew Golsteyn, who admitted on live television to killing an unarmed Iraqi bomb maker Nicholas Slatten, a security contractor twice convicted for his role in a 2007 massacre that left 14 people dead and a Marine who was filmed urinating on the bodies of several Afghans his unit had just killed. Gallagher is one of at least four accused war criminals being considered for a pardon by the White House, the New York Times reported this week. Now, thanks to President Donald Trump, he may emerge from the process with a presidential pardon, exonerated of his misdeeds and free of any consequences. ![]() According to a confidential Navy report obtained by the New York Times, in the weeks before and after this incident, he also indiscriminately killed civilians, including an adolescent girl “ in a flower-print hijab,” and pressured members of his unit to not rat him out. Gallagher was finally taken into custody last year in advance of his court martial-scheduled to begin on May 28-where he stands accused of a laundry list of war crimes. Gallagher’s crimes reportedly did not stop there. Then Edward Gallagher, the senior member of SEAL Team 7 and a distinguished veteran of several combat deployments, approached them without warning and stabbed the injured fighter repeatedly in the neck and side. He was so young, they later said he was likely a teenager. Two years ago in Mosul, Iraq, a group of Navy SEALs were administering medical aid to a young injured ISIS fighter. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
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