{"id":11731,"date":"2019-06-24T19:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/24\/thanks-to-seals-immunity-deals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:42:04","slug":"thanks-to-seals-immunity-deals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2019\/06\/24\/thanks-to-seals-immunity-deals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to SEAL\u2019s immunity deals, confessed killer unlikely to be charged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott \u2014 the SEAL who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/06\/21\/legal-bombshell-explodes-on-seal-war-crimes-trial\/\" target=_blank>dropped a legal bombshell<\/a> on two ongoing war crimes cases by confessing on the stand to asphyxiating an Islamic State prisoner of war \u2014 likely won\u2019t face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/20\/us\/navy-seal-edward-gallagher-corey-scott.html\" target=_blank>any punishment for the death<\/a>, according to a copy of his immunity deal shared with Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a dramatic moment during his Thursday testimony, Scott told a packed courtroom at Naval Base San Diego that the man on trial for premeditated murder, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher, the enlisted boss of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7 during a deployment to Iraq two years ago, might\u2019ve stabbed the detainee but he didn\u2019t kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prevent Iraqi security forces from torturing the boy to death, Scott said, he blocked the seriously wounded teenager\u2019s breathing tube and let him die. He was the killer, not Gallagher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI knew he was going to die anyway, and I wanted to save him from waking up to whatever would happen to him,\u201d Scott said in his sworn testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sparked an angry retort from Navy prosecutor Lt. Brian John, who questioned why Scott didn\u2019t tell investigators about it when they initially interviewed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He suggested that Scott might be lying to protect Gallagher, although Scott denied that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it appears unlikely either military or federal prosecutors can get Scott for murder. And the reason for that goes back to the legal efforts prosecutors themselves made to force him to testify as a star witness in Gallagher\u2019s court-martial trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/06\/21\/legal-bombshell-explodes-on-seal-war-crimes-trial\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19171574424726.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Legal bombshell explodes on SEAL war crimes trial<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">SEAL medic says that Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher didn&#039;t kill an Islamic State prisoner of war.  He did.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A medic on May 3, 2017, Scott was one of the SEALs who treated the wounded Islamic State fighter when Iraqi security forces brought him to their compound near Mosul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors were convinced that Gallagher stabbed the detainee to death and they knew that Scott was next to him that day, monitoring the boy\u2019s vitals, so he became a very valuable witness, according to internal files provided to Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Scott told prosecutors and Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents that he didn\u2019t want to participate in the trial and later threatened to remain silent during a Feb. 11 reinterview session with them, a policy he vowed to continue on the stand to protect his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Navy Region Southwest and the U.S. Department of Justice granted him testimonial immunity to hurdle his Fifth Amendment protections and force him to talk to investigators and later testify in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testimonial immunity safeguards a witness from his or her words being used later in a prosecution, but it doesn\u2019t shield someone from what other witnesses say or other evidence uncovered by investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/04\/04\/seals-lawyered-up-during-war-crimes-case-then-prosecutors-went-after-their-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas-based attorney Brian Ferguson<\/a> \u2015 an <a href=\"https:\/\/afreserve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force Reserve<\/a> major who took Scott\u2019s case free of charge \u2014 continued to push for transactional immunity, which would have extended Scott\u2019s protection from prosecution to any evidence against his client, Navy and Department of Justice officials balked at granting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in a Feb. 5 message to two civilian attorneys representing witnesses in the Gallagher case, Navy Region Southwest Staff Judge Advocate Capt. Donald C. King announced that the military prosecution team \u201creceived assurances that the Justice Department has no intention to pursue any such prosecution against your clients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond his own words, it\u2019s unclear if any new evidence could even be turned up to prosecute Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Scott indicated in his testimony, he\u2019s the only person who really can say how the detainee died because he was the only SEAL present for his last breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even Gallagher had left the area and NCIS agents never found the dead detainee\u2019s body to perform an autopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1303\" height=\"866\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen1.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen1.JPG.jpg 1303w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen1.JPG.jpg?resize=300,199 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen1.JPG.jpg?resize=768,510 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screen1.JPG.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1303px) 100vw, 1303px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Navy SEALs and Iraqi troops look at a young Islamic State fighter prosecutors say was murdered by Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher. He says he was framed. (photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Scott also likely will escape administrative sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because, before the trial, Ferguson sought assurances from Scott\u2019s SEAL commanders that they wouldn\u2019t reprise against him for anything he said during the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a series of letters to Scott and other Ferguson clients who might be called by prosecutors or defense attorneys, Naval Special Warfare Group 1 commodore Capt. Matthew D. Rosenbloom took those sanctions off the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosenbloom insisted he was \u201cnot contemplating any judicial or administrative action against you based on the investigation\u201d of Chief Gallagher, according to the letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also refused to &#8220;use any statement you have made or will make in the course of the investigation or trial\u201d of Gallagher \u201cagainst you in any administrative proceeding that is within my cognizance, except for perjury, giving a false statement, failing to comply with an order to be deposed\u201d or otherwise failing to testify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosenbloom added that his powers of administrative oversight includes Captain\u2019s Mast, a Trident Removal Board or an Administrative Separation Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an early Monday email to Navy Times, Naval Special Warfare spokeswoman Tamara Lawrence indicated that Scott\u2019s deal with Rosenbloom will be honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe immunity letter speaks for itself,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;SO1 Scott\u2019s immediate Commander granted him administrative immunity in exchange for a promise of truthful testimony. 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