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Daniel Hale Went to Prison for Telling the Truth About US Drone Warfare
- welcome_dragon 5y agoHe went to jail for breaking laws: >His crime consisted of taking classified information about the US drone program and giving it to journalist Jeremy Scahill.
- titusjohnson 5y agoThat is such a cop out. We're not here on HN to be intellectually lazy and appeal to authority. > Thanks to Hale’s disclosures, the public learned that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90 percent of those killed by US air strikes were not the intended targets. This is information that NEEDS to get out and be available to the general public. If people don't continue to leak information on crimes against humanity, America will continue to be a warmonger.
- redis_mlc 5y ago> If people don't continue to leak information on crimes against humanity, America will continue to be a warmonger. The US is not a warmonger - it is the defense umbrella for the free world. However, random drone strikes and clumsy interventions in Islamic countries are counter to any benefits. This is not well-understood, but the reason foreign powers are involved in Afghanistan is to fund a federal government - a capital and some services (roads, banking, mining, etc.) The MSM frames that as invasions, but Afghanis invite outsiders for that purpose, but they don't want a perceived occupation.
- jimmygrapes 5y agoIt was not even a year into Biden's presidency that he approved bombing of children and aid workers in Afghanistan, as the singular publicized military action post official withdrawal from the region, and not a single person has said anything beyond an extended "oops".... yet there is almost zero care in public discourse because he's on the "correct" team. The same team as Jacobin magazine.