What Should Happen to the Navy SEAL Chief?

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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An unusual battle has broken out between President Trump and top military commanders over the future of a Navy SEAL commando. Today, how a high-profile war-crimes investigation has prompted a war of words from the commander in chief — rocking the highest levels of the military. Guest: Dave Philipps, a national correspondent covering veterans and the military for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Why Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher was investigated for war crimes, and why his fellow SEAL members broke the group’s code of silence to testify against him.Order within his ranks was a “deadly serious business.” Now, Richard V. Spencer, the secretary of the Navy, has resigned after clashing with the president over Chief Gallagher’s demotion.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:02.4	This is daily.
0:10.0	Today.
0:10.8	An unusual battle has broken out between the U.S. President and the U.S. military
0:17.2	over the future of a single Navy Seal.
0:21.0	Dave Phillips, on the latest in the story of Edward Gallagher.
0:32.0	It's Monday, November 25th.
0:38.0	Today, the trial gets underway for the Navy Seal accused of murdering an Islamic state prisoner.
0:44.0	Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher is charged with premeditated murder.
0:49.0	A former Navy Seal pleaded not guilty today to war crimes.
0:54.0	This trial has a plot that could be turned into a movie,
0:57.0	a stunning twist at a military tribunal in San Diego just since shockwaves through the court.
1:03.0	Another Navy Seal testified he was the one who executed an ISIS prisoner in Iraq, not the accused.
1:09.0	After about six hours of deliberation, the jury found Chief Eddie Gallagher not guilty on six counts.
1:17.0	The only thing he was convicted of was posing in a photo,
1:20.0	posing next to the dead ISIS soldier holding its head by the hair with the caption that
1:25.0	red got him with my knife.
1:27.0	For that, he was demoted one rank.
1:29.0	He will serve no further jail time.
1:36.0	Dave, the last time we spoke to you about Navy Seal Chief Edward Gallagher, back in July,
1:41.0	he had just been acquitted of murder, but convicted of the less serious crime of posing in a photo with a dead ISIS fighter.
1:49.0	And his punishment, he had been demoted a full rank.
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