Whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to prison for exposing US war crimes

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[–]Touchngo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the story from the Washington Post found here, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/daniel-hale-drone-leak-sentence/2021/07/27/7bb46dd6-ee14-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html

it states: “You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people,” O’Grady said. “You could have been a whistleblower . . . without taking any of these documents.”

Yeah, he could have, and would have been called a conspiracy theorist and that would have ended it. The documents proved what he was claiming was true and THAT is the only reason they were classified.....so the public would never know.

Gotta love how the USA is free to kill innocents whenever they want, for whatever reason they want, and there's nothing that will happen to those that give the green-light to do so!

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The US also draws more attention to its abuses by imprisoning him. He and other whistleblowers hopefully know that they're among the best American heroes. If I were him, I'd think that 45 months in prison (for stealing government documents) was worth it. He was eligible for 10 years.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Looks like he exposed the wrong war criminal and it bit him in the ass.