In his interview with, Gallagher emphatically refuted that characterization.

Solis believes what Gallagher described amounts to a 'grave breach' of the Geneva Conventions' prohibition against unnecessary suffering of an unlawful combatant. Gallagher said neither he nor his attorney have heard from the Navy since his podcast comments.īut Gary Solis, a law of war scholar who has taught at West Point and a Marine veteran of Vietnam, said Gallagher may have admitted to a different war crime than the main one for which he was acquitted in 2019. When asked whether the service is considering investigating Gallagher's comments, officials have repeatedly replied that there is nothing to report.

However, he denied that any of the medical procedures, while performed for training purposes, were done to hasten the prisoner's death or against his medical interests.ĭefense Secretary Lloyd Austin, when asked last month about Gallagher's comments, declined to comment but said, 'I know that the Navy is looking into that issue.' In a June 15 interview with, Gallagher again said, 'We decided to just nurse him to death by medical procedures' when describing how the platoon treated the prisoner in his final moments.

He then agreed when the host asked whether that amounted to 'nursing him to death.' And there was plenty of medical treatments that were done to him.' In an interview broadcast last month during the final episode of the Apple podcast 'The Line,' Gallagher denied stabbing the prisoner but then said, 'That dude died from all the medical treatments that were done.

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