by Binoy Kampmark / July 28th, 2021
In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence analyst Daniel Everett Hale with five counts of providing classified information to a reporter. The first four focused on obtaining national defense information, retaining and transmitting that information, causing the communication of that same information and disclosing classified communications intelligence information. The fifth alleged the theft of government property.
Yet again, the US government was making use of the beastly Espionage Act of 1917. Between 2009 and 2013, Hale worked with the US Air Force and National Security Agency. He was then contracted by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to work as a toponymist.
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US whistleblower says guilt over drone strikes led him to leak secrets Sunday, 25 July 2021 2:18 AM
[ Last Update: Sunday, 25 July 2021 2:18 AM ] Daniel Everette Hale, who is charged in federal court in Alexandria, Va., under the World War I-era Espionage Act, is shown in an undated photo. (Photo by AP)
A former US Air Force intelligence analyst facing a long prison term for leaking information about the brutal nature of American drone strikes to a reporter, has admitted that his guilt over taking part in the drone attacks in Afghanistan led him to unveil the Obama-era secret program.
In an 11-page handwritten letter from his prison cell, Daniel Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, outlined what prompted him to leak classified information on the killer drone operations, re-counting “his regret and horror as he watched gruesome videos of Afghans killed in part because his work helped track them down,�
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