To defend the freedom of the press. Hello and welcome you are watching r. T. International broadcasting to you live from moscow and. A military court has cleared and navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial Nature Nature of his acquittal Edward Gallegos trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas more pain as the details. The military court in san diego has acquitted gallagher on 6 out of the 7 charges that he faced involving the killing of civilians he was convicted on a charge of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of the rules however of the maximum sentence for such a violation is only 4 months in prison and he served 9 months in pretrial detention so at this point he is indeed a free man now it appears that his acquittal was essentially hinged on the testimony of a of a Navy Seal Medic who testified that he himself was responsible for the killing of the the ice still fighter who was capture