The Army told them it had no investigative records involving Gallagher. According to the portion of an NCIS investigative summary obtained by the Union-Tribune, Navy investigators in May 2018 contacted the Army Criminal Investigation Command after interviewing members of Gallagher’s platoon.
Gallagher was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 with an Army unit. Gallagher’s defense attorneys also have said they believe some of the witnesses lied to investigators or have changed their stories. Some of those SEALs said they dismissed those claims as embellishments, if not outright fabrications, the report says. Part of the report was obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune, with other details confirmed by Parlatore in response to questions about the allegations against Gallagher.Īccording to the NCIS investigative file discussed at multiple court hearings, several members of Gallagher’s platoon told Navy investigators that Gallagher had routinely bragged about killing people - in and out of battle - including that Gallagher allegedly said he got away with shooting the goat herder in Afghanistan. Gallagher says in the video that he’s fighting to clear his name, despite being found not guilty of the most serious charges against him.Details of the 2010 shooting are laid out in a Naval Criminal Investigative Service summary report covered by that protective order. Portions of those interviews were published by The New York Times on its FX show “The Weekly” in December. The video includes clips from Naval Criminal Investigative Service interviews of Gallagher’s SEAL teammates where the men tell investigators about the alleged actions of their chief. “We don’t identify them by name, or by any other manner, due to the nature of their work, for the protection of their teammates and their families, and to protect on-going and future missions.”
“As a matter of policy we do not identify our special operators,” Lawrence said in an email. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare Command in San Diego, said in a statement late Monday that the Navy, as a practice, does not identify active-duty SEALs. Tim Parlatore, one of Gallagher’s attorneys, declined to say Monday what that project is or when it will be published. The video appears to be a trailer for an unspecified future project.
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