PLEASE SUPPORT DRONE WHISTLE-BLOWER DANIEL EVERETT HALE
Daniel Everett Hale in a police photo taken at the time of his arrest in 2019. Credit: Nashville, TN, Police
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.
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CRITICAL INFORMATION ON DRONE WARFARE
You may be coming to this website not knowing much about drone war. Or you may be a drone operator and know a great deal.
Whatever your knowledge or experience, we hope that what you find here will help you understand that drone war – intensive, long-term aerial surveillance and killing by the military or police - is not about “fighting terrorism”.
Instead, we will expose drone war as a new, extremely powerful, illegal process of repression and control being developed by the United States and other governments as our “leaders” compete to exploit human and material resources around the world. Its primary victims are poor, people of color who have no defense against drone attack.
This is a time when the vast majority of us humans crave more freedom and more cooperation, not more killing. We hope to persuasively explain why there is no place for drone war in Earth’s future.
YEMEN – The U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in its effort to control the Yemeni people extends back at least to 2001 and is related to the dependency of U.S. oil corporations and politicians on Saudi Arabia’s willingness to regulate the amount of oil it pumps so as to control prices on the world oil market in such a way as to maximize corporate profit while stopping short of backlash by the U.S. public. In July, 2018, President Trump called on Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, leading up to the 2018 mid-term elections.
AFGHANISTAN – That the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan is related to the wealth of minerals there is supported not only by the General Petraeus video commentary in our ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQJcMmPmsY but also other sources, such as this article from the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/world/asia/afghanistan-trump-mineral-deposits.html
GLOBAL WARMING – Our ads close with scenes engulfed in blazing sun, signifying global warming and its connection to increased consumption of oil products and the plunder of other resources, such as mineral, agricultural land and water. The US military operations involved in resource plunder, which is the goal of all current US wars, add massively to global warming, as documented in the linked report by Charles Bowman, of the Western New York Peace Center. http://wnypeace.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Presentation-June-23-2018-Sierra-Atlantic-Mtg-Binghamton.pdf
