Ex-airman sentenced to 45 months for leaking drone info

[enhanced_deficit]

He's related to the famous Hale of American liberty movement against British occupation:

Ex-airman sentenced to 45 months for leaking drone info

By ERIC TUCKER July 27, 2021

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Nashville Police Department is Daniel Everette Hale, who is charged in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — 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.”
apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-dd3111dc6e49c373dea806428edd4321

 

[devil21]

4 years in jail for that guy, yet "our sworn enemy who harbored the 9/11 terrorists" of 20 years ago now drives around in brand new Fords, carrying M4s and night vision, desert camo and even has armed drones paid for by US taxpayers. But thats cool...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...merican-car-american-weapons-american-costume

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Not just Fords and hi-tech weapons left behind are in their hands now apparently:

US biometric devices are in the hands of the Taliban. They could be used to target Afghans who helped coalition forces.

Days after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, many Afghans who worked for the US are now concerned that their paper documents — attesting to how they helped — could essentially be death sentences if the Taliban were to find them.
But the fear doesn't stop with paper documents. There are also US military biometric devices, which are high-tech tools that contain sensitive data, like iris scans and fingerprints, tools to distinguish friend from possible enemy, that are in the hands of the Taliban. The Intercept first reported how they could be used to identify Afghans who worked with coalition forces.

 

[Dickens]

I've heard there is a secret city all inhabitants of which remotely operate those killer drones. And they all have psychiatric problems. Treatment is, of course, covered by health care benefits. For the poor guys suffer.

Don't know if true. Just repeat what I heard.

 

[devil21]

I've heard there is a secret city all inhabitants of which remotely operate those killer drones. And they all have psychiatric problems. Treatment is, of course, covered by health care benefits. For the poor guys suffer.

Don't know if true. Just repeat what I heard.

They told us about it a long time ago.



I can't find any clips of it from the film but I'm sure some remember the scenes showing kids "playing the drone video game".