Ex-airman: Guilt over drone strikes prompted to leak secrets - 41NBC News
July 22, 2021 PHOTO: Predator Drone, Photo Date: December 16, 2008 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former Air Force intelligence analyst says his guilt over participating in lethal drone strikes in Afghanistan led him to leak government secrets about the drone program to a reporter. Daniel Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, after pleading guilty to violating the Espionage Act for leaking top-secret documents. In court papers filed Thursday, Hale’s lawyers asked that he receive a 12- to 18-month sentence. Prosecutors are se...
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