Today, Blueprint for Free Speech announced Daniel as the winner of their International Whistleblowing award for 2021.
Thank you to everyone! Full update here > The GoFundMe to cover Daniel's prison expenses has reached it's goal. CMUs have been heavily criticized for their Kafkaesque violations of due process, and widespread religious and political profiling.įor his whistleblowing, Daniel has received the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, and the Blueprint for Free Speech International Whistleblowing Prize.įollow Daniel's core support team on: twitter, facebook, and instagram. These units severely restrict and heavily monitor communications and visitations. He is currently placed in the Communications Management Unit (CMU) within USP Marion. His projected release date is July 5th, 2024. You can read his own words on the crisis of conscience that drove him, articulated poignantly in this letter to the Judge and his statement at sentencing.ĭaniel is currently serving his sentence at USP Marion, in Illinois. Hale based his criticisms on his own participation in the drone program, which included helping to select targets based on faulty criteria and attacks on unarmed innocent civilians. He was featured prominently in the award-winning documentary National Bird, a film about whistleblowers in the US drone program who suffered from moral injury and PTSD. He publicly spoke out at conferences, forums, and public panels. After leaving the Air Force, Hale became an outspoken opponent of the US targeted killings program, US foreign policy more generally, and a supporter of whistleblowers. During his military service from 2009 to 2013, he participated in the US drone program, working with both the National Security Agency and the Joint Special Operations Task Force at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
On July 27, 2021, Daniel was sentenced to 45 months in prison. On March 31, 2021, Hale pleaded guilty to a single count under the Espionage Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years. military’s assassination program, believed to have been the source material for a series in The Intercept called “ The Drone Papers”. In May 2019, drone whistleblower Daniel Everette Hale was arrested and indicted on allegations that he disclosed classified documents about the U.S. Take action: Donate Sign Petition Subscribe Stand with Daniel Hale Stand with Daniel Hale