[ May 2, 2024 ]
Chief Gallagher has been charged with mistreating an ISIS terrorist during combat operations!
On Patriot’s Day, Sept 11th 2018, NCIS snatched Chief Gallagher in the midst of TBI treatment, shackled him, kept him shackled in solitary confinement for 72 hrs.
He has been in pre-trial confinement for over 4 months and counting.
Chief Gallagher has been Indefinitely Detained, repeatedly denied access to medical care, and has limited access to his attorneys.
If this can happen to Chief Gallagher, it can happen to anyone. Even by the Navy SEALs standard, Chief Gallagher’s biography is extraordinary (read it here).
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In the case of Eddie Gallagher, charged with the murder of an ISIS detainee, there is little to no physical evidence of guilt. There is no autopsy or body to show that a murder even occurred. Instead, the case is built solely on the claims of a few junior SEALs, who did not report the alleged incident for months, and only started making claims after Chief Gallagher reported them for cowardice in combat and his genuine concerns over their ability to perform the mission.
In the civilian justice system, prosecutors are required to present evidence to a grand jury, who votes on whether there is probable cause to bring an indictment. In the military, rather than a grand jury, a single officer presides over an Article 32 hearing, where evidence is presented and that officer, usually an attorney, decides whether there is probable cause to proceed with charges. On paper, this may seem fairer than a grand jury because the defense can be present and even cross-examine the witnesses. But the reality is a bit different because the hearing officer prepares an advisory opinion and the convening authority can either accept or reject their recommendation. To put that into context, imagine a civilian prosecutor presents evidence to the grand jury, who finds that there is no probable cause to charge the defendant, but the prosecutor’s boss can ignore that decision and proceed with charges anyway.
In Chief Gallagher’s case, this is exactly the situation that occurred. The officer who heard all of the evidence at his Article 32 hearing found that some, but not all, charges were supported by the bare minimum evidence to constitute probable cause. Specifically, the hearing officer found that the evidence was insufficient on two counts of attempted murder, where Chief Gallagher allegedly shot at, but did not hit, two non-combatants on the streets of Mosul. Even though the hearing officer, who is an attorney, found no probable cause, the convening authority, who is not an attorney, rejected this conclusion and directed that Chief Gallagher face these two counts of attempted murder at trial.
Please ask President Trump to free Chief Gallagher.
Contact your Congressperson here. If they are Democrat, I am sorry for you. Best way to contact? Phone calls.
Donate to the Navy Seals Fund here. 100% of the donations raised by this campaign will be used to defend Chief Gallagher and provide support for his family as they fight for Justice.
My great friend, Band of Mothers leader Bev Perlson, sent this letter to President Donald Trump. Won’t you contact the White House?
8 February 2019
Re: Navy Chief Edward R. Gallagher
Dear Mr. President:
I wrote to you on December 11, 2018 (encl) asking for your help for Navy Seal Chief Edward R. Gallagher, currently “still” held in the Navy brig in California. Seven weeks have passed, and I have not received a response. President Trump, dare I infringe on the great progress you are making for our country, but I must. This matter is urgent.
Chief Gallagher has been locked up in the brig in California now for almost 6 months. He was taken out of TBI treatment, shackled and arrested on Patriot’s Day, September 11, 2018. Chief Gallagher is a Navy Seal, who served 19 years of decorated service, now charged with pre-meditated murder.
For the last 19 years, Chief Gallagher has risked his life to keep us all safe. Yet now he finds himself locked up in the brig and treated like a man already tried and found guilty. Due to his imprisonment, his ability to formulate any kind of decent defense is nil, and he is going to trial soon.
His wife and children are in Florida, the Chief is being held prisoner in California. Over the last 6 months, this Navy Seal has seen his wife three times, and his kids, once, on Thanksgiving Day. These are the same kids the government traumatized by pulling them out of their beds in their underwear, out in front of the neighbors, with their guns drawn!
Chief Gallagher’s kids are brave Patriots. They have said goodbye to their Dad many times since they were born, so that he could go somewhere dangerous to protect all of us. They miss him. I bet they are wondering how we could treat their Dad like this. Me Too.
I listened to your State of the Union speech Tuesday evening. It was wonderful. One part of your speech overwhelmed me. You told the story of Judah, who was there in your audience. Judah is a Holocaust survivor who remembers when the American Soldiers came and saved them all:
“Suddenly the train screeched to a very strong halt. A soldier appeared. Judah’s family braced for the worst. Then, his father cried out with joy: “It’s the Americans. It’s the Americans.”
As I heard those beautiful words, “It’s the Americans”, I imagined how many times over 19 years Chief Gallagher and his Brothers heard those same beautiful words of hope and freedom.
President Trump, the Chief needs to hear “It’s the Americans” as he is led out of the brig. He deserves to go home, to be with his family and be afforded all the rights to defend himself that he fought so hard to provide all of us.
Mr. President, please help Chief Gallagher.
With A Mother’s Heart & Great Respect,
Beverly Perlson
The Band of Mothers
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46 Comments
5 years ago
This kind of persecution has happened to UK special forces too and whichever country persecutes its special forces in this way is heading for disaster.
Our societies rely on rough men wielding big guns to do two things for us all, one is to pull the cretinous political elites backsides from the fires of their own making, and the other is to help protect us, the deserving majority.
There is no place for civilian lawyers OR the rules drawn up for a civil population to be applied to these our best people when so much is expected and drawn from them in terms of stress and danger.
Please remember the costs all these fine men bear. A year ago, a sergeant in the SAS volunteered to go into a cave and clear out the Talib inside, he went in alone, shot all he could before his gun jammed so he grabbed a shovel and smashed in the head of the last one he found. He returned covered in the blood of the enemy, silent and shocked but alive.
Spare a few thoughts for men like these, what they do never leaves them.
Stand by one of your own, go for his persecutors.
5 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Well said and great story about the SAS man. If American he’d probably be arrested. Further, no woman is going to be able to fight like that man, so all this business of accepting females in special forces will make them less then special. God made us different and for different purposes, so the sooner this messing around ends, the better. I read about 12 British boat navy men who were hopelessly outnumbered in one fight in Iraq or Syria, then ran out of ammunition so resorted to other means, knives, clubs, anything against ISIS and knocked the stuffing out of that Muslim excreta. One of the Brits drowned an ISIS man in a puddle of water. What those 12 men did was enormously brave.
5 years ago
This is absurd. We must support Chief Gallagher! In war you KILL the enemy. He is a remarkable man.
I remember Trump being appalled at this and commenting that it needs to run it’s course. He also found it appalling because it is insane. I suspect Trump will “pardon” him if he has to. This is like a Mueller style military investigation complete with NO EVIDENCE!
If convicted, he could face life behind bars. He has denied all the allegations. His wife and the mother of his children, Andrea (pictured), also said in an interview: ‘This is not who Eddie is’
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Obama installed many “Muellers” in every nook and cranny of our government….and they are still there…..odd that he has a German name while fascism rises in America…..
5 years ago
Freedom for the Leavenworth 10 &
the Anti-mosque protester sentenced to 15 years jail in Florida.
5 years ago
The all new feel good military judiciary, lets go and find someone who put his life on the line for his country and then stitch him up for some perceived crime against the very people who were trying to kill him and his comrades and make political milage out of it. Yeh right, sounds like someone within the military justice complex is eyeing off a position after their military life is over.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ken
These are Obama people. Remember how he PURGED high ranking military folks?
I guarantee you this is an Obama boy behind this. The LEFT hates the military and favors our enemies.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
True. I was going to try to post the list of all of them but, it won’t transfer correctly. You can find it on the internet by searching: General Paul Valley 3/17/14 who wrote the list.
Interesting you will find General Mattis on that list when Obummer fired him….yet you didn’t hear a whimper out of the Left back then like when President Trump fired him.
Do any of you remember who his second in command was? It was Dena Powell….the Dhimmi for Islam…President Trump ran her off pretty quickly.
D.C. has a Deep Swamp….which is closely aligned with the military Swamp….scary as hell.
5 years ago
who would choose to be a cop or a soldier in 2019 america. our government has declared open season on any man doing his job to protect us from bad guys
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
You might be surprised. The NROTC has spectacular young kids signing up and competing for the Academy and West Point. We were down at the Academy a couple of years ago – these young kids are AWESOME.
You do have a point though….
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
those kids will be prosecuted by democrats for doing their job someday
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Maybe or maybe they will make a difference.
I made a mistake We were down at the Academy in Annapolis MD not West Point.
I edited my original reply. It was an awesome experience. My youngest applied for their summer seminar and was selected. It replicated what it would be like at the academy. She LOVED it. She was very disappointed that she was not selected to attend the Academy. It turns out it is very political and we are not politically connected. So she went for the NROTC and got a scholarship. She also received a Trustee Board Merit Scholarship at the University she is attending now.
She wasn’t able to follow though on the NROTC. When at the summer session at the Academy she developed eczema. Her dermatologist told her it might have been due to stress. I think it was. The physical requirements are steep and she wasn’t cutting it but she was determined to meet them upon return an she did meet them. To make a long story short, she decided to stay with her merit scholarship because even of the skin problem. It got worse. The stress seemed to bring out a weakness. She was so disappointed that she had to with drawl. The kids liked her too and still include her in things but it is not the same as being in it. GREAT KIDS! I just can’t praise then enough! ALL of them are impressive.
I had mixed emotions on that since I don’t want women in combat situations… but things have their own way of working out. The NROTC are looking to get students into nuclear engineering, Farsi speakers and Mandarin speakers. As her foreign language she knows Mandarin. and they were suggesting she look into learning Farsi or they would teach her that. but it didn’t work out for her.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Proud your daughter tried so hard. God may have another purpose for her…..my grandson speaks five languages…he’s in the Guard….Security forces are where he’s headed.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’ll believe how “spectacular” and “AWESOME” are these recruits once I hear of them in action and under fire. Character, moral fibre, toughness of spirit and morale determines how good are these “kids” are, not superficial appearances in cute uniforms. And how good are the those training these young men and women to fight – and what are their beliefs? When some time ago some Americans in small boats were captured by Iranians – without even putting up a fight (which was worse than pathetic!) – some cried for their mommy – in front of the enemy for goodness sake! A few months ago in some West African country, some supposedly American special forces men, four of them, were killed by Muslim insurgents, and after reading about their sloppy conduct in enemy territory – wearing T-shirts and baseball caps – I was appalled by their clueless conduct. T-shirts and baseball caps while on active duty and poor defenses round their bivouac? It’s one thing playing boy and girl soldiers and sailors in academies, it’s another thing doing the real thing when you can be killed. Ask yourself, what kind of blood people, Americans, go and arrest Chief Gallagher without adequate investigation and then endeavour to frame him? I will tell you who they are. Enemies of the people and cowardly scum. Spiritually the country is rotting within and you need to wake up to it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
How true how about the rules of engagement I have never herd of anything so insane let the enemy shoot first who ever made that rule should be put on the front lines !
5 years ago
Reply to
Bill Kay
Obama made those rules of engagement and suddenly American fatalities in Afghanistan shot up over the time when George W. Bush was president. They then shot up in Iraq, and in my opinion were designed to reduce Muslim enemy deaths. Yes, they were insane and for them Obama should have been shot, In fact if he were shot now I wouldn’t shed a tear, instead would cheer.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
The Roman Empire rotted from the inside out and nothing makes this clearer than Constantine’s decision to abandon Rome for Constantinople (now Istanbul). Outside of Eastern Europe, Western civilisation is dying.
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Constantine needed to abandon Rome because, just like now, Rome was rotting from within.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
It’s a great time to be retired! I’d be fired in days if I was a rookie today…
5 years ago
Reply to
MAS
US Navy 69-72. I could never STFU when I was ordered to perform an inane task by a senior petty officer or Chief. I always found a better way to perform my task.
I am lucky officers that saw my work stood up for me when Chief’s wanted my azzz.
5 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Ya one of the reasons I would never stay in the service to many idiots in charge .
5 years ago
Reply to
MAS
ditto, thank God for retirement and here was me naively thinking a soldiers job was to kill the enemy, Israel has the same problem you go on a raid and lawyers are on the line telling you what you can and cant do
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
That’s why we have to SUPPORT them.
In Sweden they are losing control. The police are resigning in droves. We have to support our police too.
They are losing control of their country.
80 Per Cent Of Swedish Police Consider Quitting Over Migrant Danger
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/09/20/80-per-cent-swedish-police-consider-quitting-due-danger/
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Support whom? The kind of people who arrested Chief Gallagher. The need to be investigated and if found guilty of an injustice severely punished.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
It’s the Deep Swamp in the military….Obummer made most of the patriot high ranking officers take “early retirement”. Then he packed it with every Left swamp critter he could.
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Good comment that I know to be true, ladywarrior, and it accounts for the shoddy treatment being meted out to Chief Gallagher. I think that American forces – without those men Obama fired – are rotting within. All educational material about Islam expunged and in its place garbage that won’t name the enemy. Amazing but true. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch used to train these people before traitor Obama arrived on the scene, but no longer, so how well prepared are they to fight the Muslim enemy?
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
And that should be reversed , and cleaned up fast , and try to get the good guys back , since when is sedition condoned ? and it is rampant it seems in todays world .
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
The ever present SPAMMER! I block this idiot everyday….and still she is here. BLOCK
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
No question about it , the swamp needs to be completely DRAINED and laws against sedition need to be enforced to the maximum the law allows , I wonder how Mac Arthur , Patton , Marshall , Le May and a few others would handle this .
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Just so very well put. Something has gone badly wrong in America. The enemy has infiltrated the military services just as it has the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security – and the Democratic Party!
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
Well said. No ISIS enemy should be taken prisoner. When they try to surrender they should be shot on sight for all the terrible atrocities they committed against Christians and Yazidis, and for their raping of sex slaves they took.
5 years ago
Just like the DOJ. We are finding out that all JAG units need to be PURGED of all the leftist scum ! This Cabal of leftist lawyers needs to be investigated and lose their ability to screw the American people !
5 years ago
#FreeEddie NOW!!!
5 years ago
The U.S. Rules of Engagement have led to the deaths of more American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq than all of the Iranian IED’s,and that’s a fact. One interesting story is that the 300 man brigade sent by the Republic of Georgia was relieved of duty by the US Commander in Iraq after they never seemed to turn up any prisoners. When asked,the Georgian commander replied.,”We ave been fighting this scum for 1200 years and you don;t take prisoners unless you intend to commit suicide.”
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Lovely. That Georgian had the right idea. In Nigeria the South African mercenaries hired to fight Boko Haram did the same thing, took no prisoners.
5 years ago
You asked him to go to war. He did, he fought and like my father said, you fight to WIN!!
CASE CLOSED you ass holes!!
5 years ago
I thought that all was supposed to be fair in love and war.
5 years ago
This hero must be freed!
5 years ago
I just wrote my Congressman about Gallagher. I’m going to write the President as well. If we all did that, I think he would get some help.
As a nation we are judged by how we treat those who protect us. Right now we’re not looking so good.
5 years ago
I wouldn’t think war crimes possible against beasts who put children in cages to burn or drown, machine gun whole towns, rape torture & kill innocents everywhere they go.
But, what do I know?
“Natural brute beasts meant to be taken & destroyed.” II Peter 2v12.
Even the Bible teaches some men are irredemable.
If ISIS does not qualify should we give Satan a pass?
NO!
When you put your defenders in jail for defending you, you end up defenseless.
5 years ago
A Foxtrotting disgrace.
5 years ago
Sorry folk, but when something like this can happen, then America has degenerated into a country that Donald Trump rightly described as “shit-holes”. When it turns out that junior Navy SEALS are proving cowards, then something bad has happened to the character of the nation. So now the cowards have dictated the fortune of a brave seal and the ‘authorities’ believed the cowards rather than Chief Gallagher. Who are these ‘authorities’? More Muslims who Barack Obama infiltrated into the FBI, CIA and other services in the United States and want an American patriot punished for killing a Muslim?
I am proud of the fact that when South African mercenaries, mostly ex-SA Defence Force men, were hired to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria, they killed every of those miserable murdering sods. In the middle of military action they through various means drove or herded them into ‘kill blocks’ and did to them what was deserved. ISIS men have murdered Christians and Yazidis by the thousands in insanely cruel ways – and now it is wrong to kill the ISIS enemy? This is totally insane! I recommend that America rather hires South African mercenaries to do its fighting because they will get the job done, you won’t have any prisoners to feed prisoners – or have Canada’s idiotic Prime Minister Trudeau pay them $10.5 million dollars – and if some American tries to arrest these South Africans for killing Muslim savages, they will do you a favour and kill those like the worthless Naval Criminal Investigation Service traitors who arrested and are framing Chief Gallagher.
5 years ago
There is only one acceptable treatment for any muslim terrorist or their supporters, and that is death.
5 years ago
Release Chief Gallagher now!
