“Those videos were so helpful to me - they gave me a road map to acquittal.”Īccording to Parlatore, the full videos revealed flawed NCIS interrogations that were key to his trial preparation. “You’re never going to understand these interviews without a trained criminal investigator looking at it,” Parlatore said. Gallagher’s attorney, Tim Parlatore, told the Union-Tribune in an interview Thursday that there was nothing new in the videos and predicted the New York Times would edit and cherry-pick which parts of the statements to air. Soon after I got to the brig at Miramar, one of these guys came to visit me and apologize for what they did but that they had to stick with the fake stories or be charged with making false statements.” In a written statement sent via his attorney, Gallagher said: “My first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me, but I quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment. Gallagher says his men made up the accusations because they were unhappy with his leadership style. He was found not guilty in July of murdering the wounded fighter and shooting civilians. These interviews led to the murder charges against Gallagher in 2019 - charges the SEAL denied. Three SEALs tell investigators they saw Gallagher stab a wounded Islamic State fighter in the neck. “I saw Eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid,” one says.
They also describe his actions during the deployment as war crimes. One by one, his men tell NCIS that their platoon served as Gallagher’s “personal sniper escort” and that the chief was “medal chasing.” In separate interviews, the SEALs tell NCIS agents that Gallagher behaved like a “psychopath” during their 2017 deployment to Mosul, Iraq, where the platoon took on Islamic State.
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