The 60 Minutes segment ends with Gallagher at his Florida home showing correspondent David Martin a wall of his service memorabilia and the knife he had been accused of using to kill the ISIL fighter.Ĭritics seized on the clip after it was tweeted by 60 Minutes, with David M Perry, a journalist and historian, saying the programme was “glamourising” Gallagher. Everyone involved with this episode, including those who greenlighted and oversaw the episode, should resign or be fired. They have a tweet up celebrating the knife he used to murder a captive. The show is glamorizing the murdering war criminal Eddie Gallagher. The case took a turn when a key witness and a fellow SEAL testified that he, not Gallagher, had killed the captive, while nevertheless standing by his and other soldiers’ claim that Gallagher had plunged a knife into the teenage fighter’s neck.Ī jury acquitted Gallagher, who had the public support of President Donald Trump, of the most serious charges, while finding him guilty on the lesser charge of posing for a group photo with the body of the dead fighter. Navy prosecutors had accused Gallagher of stabbing to death a wounded captive fighter of ISIL ( ISIS) in Iraq in 2017, attempting to murder civilians that he randomly fired at from a sniper nest and obstruction of justice.

A report by the CBS news programme 60 Minutes on Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who had been accused of war crimes while serving with the SEAL force in Iraq in 2017, has prompted a backlash on social media, with some claiming the segment “laundered” Gallagher’s reputation.

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