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May 6, 2021

Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Jailed Ahead of July 13 Sentencing
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Former U.S. intelligence analyst Daniel Hale has been unexpectedly
arrested and jailed ahead of his sentencing, which is scheduled for July
13. In March, Hale pleaded guilty to one count of violating the World
War I-era Espionage Act for leaking classified documents about the
secretive U.S. drone and targeted assassination programs. On Saturday,
Amy Goodman interviewed National Security Agency whistleblower Edward
Snowden and asked him about Daniel Hale.

Edward Snowden: "Daniel Hale is one of the most consequential
whistleblowers. He sacrificed everything - an incredibly courageous
person - to tell us that the drone war, that, you know, is so obviously
occurring to everyone else, but the government was still officially
denying in so many ways, is here, it is happening, and 90% of the
casualties in one five-month period were innocents or bystanders or not
the target of the drone strike. We could not establish that, we could
not prove that, without Daniel Hale's voice."

Edward Snowden was speaking on a virtual panel with Pentagon Papers
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg that I moderated. Watch the full interview
here.


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