In 2015, The Intercept published leaked government documents that revealed the workings and many shocking failings of the U.S. drone attack program. https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

The Intercept reported that the unnamed source who leaked the documents believed that the U.S. public “has a right to understand the process by which people are placed on kill lists and ultimately assassinated on orders from the highest echelons of the U.S. government.”

The Intercept quoted the source:

“This outrageous explosion of watch-listing — of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield — it was, from the very first instance, wrong,”

In May, 2019, Daniel Everett Hale was arrested and charged under the Espionage Act with leaking the Drone Papers.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/05/09/ex-air-force-intelligence-analyst-charged-with-leaks-to-reporter/

Hale, who was one of the military people featured in the film “National Bird” http://nationalbirdfilm.com/, faces up to 50 years in jail, is free on his own recognizance. His trial is set for late in March, but it probably will be later.

He is being defended by the Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at Expose Facts, and you can sign a petition and donate to his defense at https://standwithdanielhale.org/ You can learn more about his case through this link as well as news about other whistleblowers.

You can also sign his petition at:

https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/stop-the-prosecution-of-drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale

PLEASE DONATE TO THE DEFENSE OF DANIEL EVERETT HALE AND SIGN HIS PETITION.