Ex-airman Sentenced to 45 Months for Leaking Drone Info

Ex-airman Sentenced to 45 Months for Leaking Drone Info
Daniel Everette Hale in a file photo. Nashville Police Department via AP
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A former Air Force intelligence analyst who once helped find targets for deadly U.S. drone strikes was sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking top-secret details about the program.

Daniel Hale, 33, told a federal judge he felt compelled to leak information to a journalist out of guilt over his own participation in a program that he believed was indiscriminately killing civilians in Afghanistan far from the battlefield.