10/6/2023 0 Comments Navy seal chief war crimes![]() This was the mother lode…Page after page gave accounts of indiscriminate shooting and killing. Reporting on special operations forces, which I’ve done repeatedly in the five years I’ve covered the military as a national correspondent, is not only difficult and time-consuming, but also often disappointing because you end up with so little. The headline on this story: Navy SEALS Were Warned Against Reporting Their Chief For War Crimes. Then, someone gave him more than 400 pages of confidential documents from the Navy’s criminal investigation. ![]() ![]() Philipps made a lot of calls but no one in the platoon would talk to him. So why had a popular chief who was almost eligible for retirement been turned in by several men in his own platoon for stabbing a captive teenager to death and gunning down civilians, including a young girl, with a sniper rifle?” War crimes are easy to cover up, he wrote in a Times Insider column, where reporters share how they got the story. That was what he thought when he learned that Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, the head of a Navy SEAL platoon, was charged with murdering civilians in Iraq. Sometimes what the crime reveals about the culture and inner workings of a military unit is the real headline.” New York Times reporter Dave Philipps, who wrote about the case in April, noted “The biggest story in a war crimes case isn’t always the crime itself. ![]() This weekend, the Secretary of the Navy gave up his job after a dispute with President Donald Trump over plans to penalize a Navy SEAL charged with war crimes. ![]()
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