This docuseries examines the moral ambiguities of war as embodied by the 2018 case in which a US Navy SEAL platoon accused its chief, Eddie Gallagher, of war crimes. Gallagher’s team quickly booked him into TV studios in Central London where he will originate Tuesday’s Mike Gallagher Show for his radio affiliates, which will also be simulcast on the Salem News Channel OTT. In covert modern warfare, the line between right and wrong has blurred. Gallagher resigned from the navy in 2019. Salem says Gallagher was on a week-long vacation in Great Britain when news of the Fox-Carlson split made global headlines. He writes that Gallagher was helped by a strong legal team and his wife Andrea, who led a “Free Eddie” campaign on Fox News that caught the attention of another supporter, President Trump. Philipps is at his best when recounting the unraveling of Gallagher’s trial and how the seemingly strong case resulted in an acquittal. Gallagher is depicted as a once-heroic, highly decorated SEAL who saw himself as a pirate and came to believe that killing one’s opponent was the ultimate reward his subordinates claim that, in addition to killing the teen prisoner, he killed civilians in Mosul. Philipps conducted two dozen interviews and consulted court transcripts, confidential documents, and more to reveal Gallagher’s character and the complexities of his accusers and defenders. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter Philipps ( Wild Horse Country) delves deeply into Gallagher’s 15-year SEAL career, his 2018 court-martial, and SEAL culture. Former SEAL Eddie Gallagher became a political and cultural third rail before, during and after his war crimes trial in 2019. In June 2018, Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Eddie Gallagher was arrested on capital charges, accused by members of his own platoon of having brutally murdered a teenage prisoner in Iraq (allegedly an ISIS combatant).
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