by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

In February former US Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale was finally released from prison after serving 33 months of a 45 month incarceration, slated to carry out the rest of his sentence under federal custody in home confinement until July 2024.

Hale was indicted and arrested in 2019 and prosecuted under the Espionage Act, a charge for which he ultimately plead guilty, for leaking classified information to The Intercept in 2014 forming the basis for a series of reports known as The Drone Papers, which exposed the heinous and criminal nature of the US military drone program. Including the scope of targeted assassinations and documentation showing that the vast majority of casualties killed via U.S. drone strikes are innocent civilians. One batch of documents, detailing a program known as Operation Haymaker, demonstrated that within a five month period upwards of 90% of those killed were not the intended target.