by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jul 27, 2021 - 10:00 PM
A former Air Force intelligence analyst turned whistleblower who leaked America's drone secrets to the press was
sentenced to 45 months behind bars in an Alexandria, VA federal court on Tuesday.
33-year old
leaker of classified info to
Intercept journalist Jeremy Scahill, who wrote a series of reports on the Obama administration's secretive drone program and the mounting civilian casualties - as well as the flimsy and dubious legal justifications offered based on 'war on terror' rationale.
"I came to believe that the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public," Hale wrote in an eleven page letter to the court.