Navy contradicts Congressman Hunter’s claims concerning SEAL’s confinement conditions | San Diego Union-Tribune

Navy Personnel Command — which oversees the Navy brigs where military prisoners are held — has pushed back against a congressman’s claims that a SEAL charged with multiple war crimes is being held in “irregularly harsh” conditions.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, sent a letter to President Donald Trump last week to draw attention to the plight of Edward R. Gallagher, a Navy SEAL being held in a Miramar brig on charges of premeditated murder and shooting civilians during a 2017

Iraq deployment.

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