Chris Hedges: The price of conscience RT.com 29 Jul 2021, 08:12 GMT+10 This week, drone warfare whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 The Intercept on October 15, 2015, exposed that between January 2012 and February 2013 US special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. For one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90% of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. The civilian dead, usually innocent bystanders, were routinely classified as "enemies killed in action."