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America needs to listen to the anguished operators of our flying death robots | Will Bunch

The Pentagon saw drone warfare as a way to exert power without risking U.S. lives. They forget about the conscience of the people who ran them.

Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty March 31 to leaking classified documents to a reporter about military drone strikes against al-Qaida and other terrorist targets. The guilty plea from Hale, 33, of Nashville, Tenn., came just days before he was slated to go on trial in federal court in Alexandria, Va., for violating the World War I-era Espionage Act.
Daniel Hale, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, pleaded guilty March 31 to leaking classified documents to a reporter about military drone strikes against al-Qaida and other terrorist targets. The guilty plea from Hale, 33, of Nashville, Tenn., came just days before he was slated to go on trial in federal court in Alexandria, Va., for violating the World War I-era Espionage Act.Read moreBob Hayes / AP
    by Will Bunch | Columnist
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