On Tuesday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) identified the Navy SEAL killed by Islamic State fire outside Mosul, Iraq, as Charlie Keating IV, a grandson of Charles H. Keating Jr., a financier at the center of the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s and early '90s. The elder Keating was chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which collapsed in 1989, leading to accusations that five senators had improperly intervened in a federal banking investigation on behalf of Keating.
Charlie Keating was the third U.S. serviceman killed in the battle against ISIS in Iraq, and White House press secretary Josh Earnest called his death a "vivid reminder" of the dangers U.S. service members face in Iraq and Syria. "They are taking grave risks to protect our country. We owe them a deep debt of gratitude," he said. According to Iraqi Kurds and U.S. defense officials, Keating was killed by small arms fire after ISIS fighters broke through the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline with armored Humvees and bulldozers. He was advising the Peshmerga forces as they battle ISIS just north of Mosul. You can watch Earnest describe the death, and the mission, below. Peter Weber
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