Ex-airman Sentenced to 45 Months for Leaking Drone Info

Ex-airman Sentenced to 45 Months for Leaking Drone Info
Voice of America
28 Jul 2021, 09:05 GMT+10
ALEXANDRIA, VA. - A former Air Force intelligence analyst who once helped find targets for deadly U.S. drone strikes was sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking top-secret details about the program.
Daniel Hale, 33, told a federal judge he felt compelled to leak information to a journalist out of guilt over his own participation in a program that he believed was indiscriminately killing civilians in Afghanistan far from the battlefield.
"It is wrong to kill," Hale said in a defiant statement in which he accepted responsibility for his actions, but also pleaded for mercy. "It is especially wrong to kill the defenseless."

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