{"id":89604,"date":"2019-08-07T10:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=89604"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T14:34:01","slug":"navy-dismisses-more-seal-war-crimes-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=89604","title":{"rendered":"Navy dismisses more SEAL war crimes cases…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nU.S. Navy Sea, Air, and Land team members conduct military field operations during exercise Trident 18-4 at Hurlburt Field, Florida, on July 11th, 2018. (Staff Sgt. Corban Lundborg\/Air Force)<\/p>\n

…removes controversial prosecutor.<\/h3>\n

War crime charges are falling like Autumn leaves in Navy Region Southwest, as all charges are dismissed against SWO1 Daniel Dambrosio, SWOCs Xavier Silva and David Swarts, and their CO, LT Jason Webb. They were initially charged with assaulting prisoners and were cleared at Captain’s Mast in 2012.<\/p>\n

On 19 January 2017 they were again charged with assaulting prisoners by discharging their sidearms near a detainee’s head. Additionally, SWOC Swarts was accused of conspiring with LT Webb to cover up the incident.<\/p>\n

By: <\/span> Carl Prine<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In another day of bold moves by Navy leaders seeking to revamp the sea service\u2019s criminal justice system, officials dismissed a war crimes case dogging four SEALs and transferred a prosecutor plagued by misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n

Ending a case that had dragged on for 2 \u00bd years, Navy Region Southwest\u2019s commander Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar dropped all war crimes charges against Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Daniel V. Dambrosio Jr. and two special operator chief petty officers \u2014 Xavier Silva and David N. Swarts \u2014 plus their former commanding officer, Lt. Jason L. Webb.<\/p>\n

Military prosecutors in San Diego had accused them of abusing detainees at Village Stability Platform Kalach in the Chora District of Afghanistan\u2019s Uruzgan Province on May 31, 2012.<\/p>\n

Although authorities conceded that most of the abuse stemmed from Afghan Local Police militiamen beating villagers with clubs and car antennas, one detainee allegedly died after a round of brutal questioning, and investigators believed the SEALs could\u2019ve done more to prevent the maltreatment.<\/p>\n

Within the closed SEAL community, however, the case was seen as politically driven retribution brought by brass far from the battlefield and spurred by press accounts in late 2015 that pointed a spotlight at a murky Afghanistan counter-insurgency mission three years earlier.<\/p>\n

The four SEALs had voluntarily entered non-judicial punishment proceedings, a Trident Review Board and other disciplinary hearings and were cleared, only to be charged at court-martial on Jan. 19, 2017, with what they said was little new evidence brought to the case.<\/p>\n

Bolivar had been mulling a plea deal that would send them back to NJP , but on Tuesday she quashed the case, two weeks before a court-martial trial loomed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of the article, including the fate of CDR Czaplak, here: Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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