The Navy Times reports NCIS has seized 'cell phones and electronic communications' since February in a search for evidence that Gallagher asked other SEALs to 'obstruct justice or retaliate against junior sailors who ratted him out for war crimes. Gallagher is formally arraigned in San Diego. He's held at San Diego’s Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar.

Gallagher pleads not guilty to multiple charges, including killing the Islamic State captive and unarmed Iraqi civilians in June and July 2017. Later, Gallagher allegedly texts, 'I got this one with my knife.' The Navy officer pardoned for war crimes by President Trump is expected to be removed from the SEALs. Prosecutors say he used it as a prop in a re-enlistment ceremony. Elite Navy SEALs who served in Iraq alongside Special Operations Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher told investigators they viewed him as an evil leader who committed what they considered to be obvious war crimes, according to newly released video and text messages obtained by The New York Times. Gallagher and other members of his platoon posed with the prisoner's body.

On this day, military prosecutors say, Gallagher killed a captive teen-aged Islamic State combatant by stabbing him in the neck and chest in a Navy SEAL post near Mosul, Iraq.

He served eight tours of duty and is the recipient of two Bronze Stars with valor and other awards. He served as medic and completed SEAL training in 2005.

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