Meg Larrea, awarded Navy Achievement Medals to four junior prosecutors under Czaplak. The RLSO came under greater scrutiny on July 10, only a week after the Gallagher verdict, when the office’s commanding officer, Capt.

Meg Larrea conducts a uniform inspection in late 2017. Region Legal Service Office Southwest commanding officer Capt. Prosecutors and agents also were accused of manipulating witness statements using immunity grants and a bogus “target letter” in a crude attempt to keep 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. Aaron Rugh had determined that Czaplak played a key role in violating Gallagher’s constitutional rights before his trial kicked off.Īt the heart of the scandal was a warrantless surveillance program featuring Czaplak that was cooked up with Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents to track emails sent by defense attorneys and Navy Times, allegedly to uncover leaks after questions emerged that military officials were hiding evidence that could clear Gallagher. He accused Gallagher's fellow SEAL Craig Miller, a prosecution witness who testified last week that he saw Gallagher stab the captive in the neck, of lying, CNN reported.But Czaplak was gone from the case a month before Gallagher’s case unraveled at trial, with a panel of his military peers on July 2 rejecting all the serious allegations against the highly decorated SEAL.

Kirylo said he didn't particularly care for Gallagher, but he stressed that the SEAL did not kill the prisoner. His testimony contradicted that of two of Gallagher's fellow SEALs, who testified that Gallagher stabbed him with a hunting knife, according to Reuters. Giorgio Kirylo, an intelligence specialist attached to Gallagher's platoon who was with the prisoner the whole time after his capture, said that the adolescent militant died of mortal wounds sustained on the battlefield. The decorated SEAL has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Gallagher is accused of killing a prisoner of war in Iraq and shooting innocent civilians with a sniper rifle, among other offenses. It often indicates a user profile.Ī US Marine who deployed to Iraq with Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher testified Thursday that the accused SEAL did not stab a teenage prisoner of war to death, a war crime for which he is standing trial. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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