{"id":89567,"date":"2019-08-05T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89567"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:31:44","slug":"89567","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89567","title":{"rendered":"In Our Last Episode…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Members of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7, pose in front of the body of a dead Islamic State prisoner of war in Iraq in 2017. Only Gallagher was convicted for appearing in the photo. (Navy photo)<\/h5>\n

This business with SEAL Team 7 and SCPO Gallagher seems to have grown legs and appears to be trying to take the bit in its teeth.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/08\/02\/attorneys-stunned-cnos-seal-court-martial-orders-not-followed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0 Hours after Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson ordered authorities to dismiss all charges against SEAL Lt. Jacob X. \u201cJake\u201d Portier, prosecutors told the military judge hearing the case that they couldn\u2019t actually dismiss it.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors had accused Portier of helping to cover up alleged war crimes committed by Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher during an Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7, deployment to Iraq in 2017, but Richardson on Thursday ordered the Navy to drop the case in what appeared to be unambiguous language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cChief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson today dismissed all charges in the case of Lt. Jacob Portier,”\u00a0read the Thursday statement<\/a>\u00a0issued by the sea service.<\/p>\n

But wait — there’s more!<\/p>\n

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Navy officials declined comment about that but Portier\u2019s prosecution had been teetering since the case against Gallagher collapsed on July 2, when a military panel of his peers returned a verdict of not guilty on charges that included premeditated murder of an Islamic State prisoner of war and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The sole charge that stuck was a specification for appearing in a photo next to the detainee\u2019s dead body, something Gallagher never denied doing. — Article<\/p>\n

In addition: charges against SWO1 Corey Scott, the SEAL petty officer who confessed on the witness stand during Gallagher\u2019s trial to killing the prisoner have been dropped, as ordered by CNO.<\/p>\n

But wait! There’s more:\u00a0 The CNO letter also ordered Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bob Burke to investigate the leadership and performance of the service\u2019s Judge Advocate General Corps in the wake of a prosecution plagued by allegations of warrantless spying on defense lawyers and Navy Times; manipulating witness statements to Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents; using immunity grants and a bogus \u201ctarget letter\u201d in a crude attempt to keep pro-Gallagher witnesses from testifying; illegally leaking documents to the media to taint the military jury pool; and then trying to cover it all up when they got caught. – article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Still confused? Read the entire article. I have read it twice, realized that there was some skulduggery going on with the JAGs, and wondered if there was more motivation than just wrangling a conviction on Gallagher.\u00a0 Reading it through to the end. RADM Bolivar appears to be hellbent on pounding Gallagher into the ground, and busting him down to PO1 by ignoring the fact that all the charges were dropped except for the minor charge re: the photo with the dead ISIS prisoner – something Gallagher did not deny.<\/p>\n

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