They were accused of manipulating witness statements to NCIS agents using immunity grants and a bogus “target letter” in a crude attempt to keep Breisch and other potential pro-Gallagher witnesses from testifying illegally leaking documents to the media to taint the military jury pool and then trying to cover it all up when they got caught. Christopher Czaplak, the lead prosecutor in both cases, for his role in a warrantless surveillance program cooked up with Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents to track emails sent by defense attorneys and Navy Times. Part of Rugh’s punishment included booting Cmdr.
If Navy leadership can’t accept the commander in chief’s guidance, then they all should leave.īoth the Gallagher and Portier cases were dogged by allegations of military corruption, reaching into the Navy Yard and Naval Special Warfare and triggering sanctions against the prosecution by judge Capt. "As for those in his chain of command who appear to be supporting Green, there needs to be a wholesale change in leadership. "This is a terrible precedent to send and the commander in chief should take swift and decisive action against Rear Adm. "A two-star admiral should not be stepping in to substitute the judgment of his commander in chief. “The president has spoken on the punishment of Eddie Gallagher," said the SEAL’s civilian attorney, Timothy Parlatore, a former surface warfare officer. But a potential showdown between Trump and Green, his fellow admirals and their civilian overseer, Spencer, could set a bad precedent in civil-military affairs, Gallagher’s legal team said. Tamara Lawrence called allegations that Green uttered contemptuous words about the president “patently false.”īased on the documents provided to Navy Times, it remains unclear what, if any, comments were made by Green about the president. Declining to comment on the IG complaint filed against her command, Naval Special Warfare spokesperson Capt.
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