Podcast Corner: The Line looks at the actions in Iraq of Donald Trump's favourite Seal

Eddie Gallagher may have been pardoned by Donald Trump, but this series about his controversial behaviour during the Iraq war still raises all sorts of questions

Eddie Gallagher celebrates with his wife Andrea after being acquitted of premeditated murder while serving in Iraq. Picture: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Tue, 27 Apr, 2021 - 10:29

Eoghan O’Sullivan

The ethics/morality of war was a theme that cropped up in the dispiriting second season of Serial and is evident in The Line, an ongoing six-part series from Apple TV/Jigsaw Productions.

It focuses on a US Navy SEALs team led by special operations chief Eddie Gallagher, who was convicted in July 2019 of posing for a photograph with the corpse of a 17-year-old Isis fighter in Iraq. Gallagher was subsequently acquitted of having killed him.