to killing that isis fighter. we are left with the result that the jury found him, innocent of murder and guilty of posing with that photo. the other thing this underscores for me is the importance of the commander in chief, though nobody wants to take away his pardon power of course, the importance of him waiting until the system has completed itself, respecting the system and then making an informed decision. the president didn t wait until the end. he involved himself in the gallagher case all the way through. even when gallagher was in pretrial confinement, the president was getting himself involved in this and didn t let the review process complete before he went ahead and told the navy to stop the process. there s a reason why the system isn t perfect but it is a system that has survived the test of time and trial and would have been better for the president to have waited before he got