"Drone strikes are a form of extrajudicial execution that is illegal under international law... These antidemocratic impulses of the national security state are what’s actually harmful to our country — not a whistleblower who seeks to empower us to make democratic decisions about the crimes our government carries out in our name. Hale’s actions are both heroic and laudable. The fact that the government once again seeks to destroy a truth teller who exposed its crimes highlights the immorality of the system that Hale and others have exposed... The Espionage Act... has become the government’s go-to weapon against whistleblowers and journalists who challenge the US national security state. Hale conceded to giving documents about the US drone program to an investigative journalist (unnamed in court documents, but clearly Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept) and anonymously authoring a chapter in The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program. Far from a spy, Hale is a whistleblower — and a courageous one at that — whose actions have given us key insights into the unjust nature of US imperial power in the twenty-first century."
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Chip Gibbons, Daniel Hale Blew the Whistle on the US's Illegal Drone Program. He's a Hero, Not a Criminal, Jacobin (10 April 2021)
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