On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the prosecution and sentencing of former intelligence analyst, Daniel Hale, with his lawyer Jesselyn Radack.
Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force, who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 months in prison. The documents, published by The Intercept, 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.”
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