navy seals warned against reporting thier chief for war crimes new york times

'We're seeing this fight play out of what is the duty of a SEAL,' Philipps said. On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott speaks with Dave Philipps.

Joining on the line from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Philipps told On Second Thought that Gallagher's case reveals a Navy SEAL culture ' split between loyalty and justice.' But what Philipps has found, through interviews and hundreds of pages of internal military documents, defied expectations. When New York Times national correspondent Dave Philipps began reporting on Gallagher's case, he thought he might learn that Gallagher had suffered some kind of psychotic break as the result of numerous combat deployments over the course of nearly two decades.

He and his family have denied all charges. But less than a year after Gallagher returned from his eighth deployment – fighting the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq – he drew a different kind of attention from the Navy: he was charged with war crimes, among them premeditated murder. Over his 19-year career with the Navy SEALs, Special Operations Chief Edward 'Eddie' Gallagher earned high honors for valor and leadership as a medic, sniper and explosives expert. A bomb explodes behind the al-Nuri mosque complex, as seen through a hole in the wall of a house, as Iraqi Special Forces move toward Islamic State militant positions in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, June 29, 2017.

Navy seals warned against reporting thier chief for war crimes new york times