by Sam Adams Associates, August 23, 2021
A Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence ali okondwa kulengeza wolemba lipenga wankhondo wa drone a Daniel Hale ngati omwe alandila Mphotho ya 2021 Sam Adams for Integrity in Intelligence. Hale - yemwe anali katswiri paukazitape wa Air Force mu pulogalamu ya drone - anali womanga chitetezo mu 2013 pomwe chikumbumtima chimamukakamiza kuti atulutse zikalata zodziwika bwino kwa atolankhani akuwulula zaumbanda wa pulogalamu yakupha ya US ["Timapha anthu kutengera metadata" - Michael Hayden, Mtsogoleri wakale wa CIA & NSA].
Zolemba zomwe zidatulutsidwa - zomwe zidasindikizidwa mu The Intercept pa Okutobala 15, 2015 - zidawulula kuti kuyambira Januware 2012 mpaka February 2013, ndege zapadera zaku US zapha anthu opitilira 200. Mwa akufa, 35 okha ndiwo omwe adalingaliridwa. Malinga ndi zolembedwazo, kwa miyezi isanu yokha ya opaleshoniyi, pafupifupi 90% ya anthu omwe adaphedwa pa ziwonetsero zanyimbo sizomwe amafuna. Anthu osalakwa - omwe nthawi zambiri ankakhala pafupi - amadziwika kuti ndi "adani omwe amaphedwa."
Pa Marichi 31, 2021 Hale adalonjeza kuweruza kamodzi pansi pa Espionage Act, ndipo adakhala m'ndende zaka 10. Mu Julayi 2021, adaweruzidwa kuti akakhale m'ndende miyezi 45 chifukwa chowulula umboni wankhondo zaku US. M'kalata yopita kwa Woweruza Liam O'Grady Hale adalongosola kuti kuwukira kwa drone ndi nkhondo ku Afghanistan "sizikugwirizana kwenikweni ndi kuletsa uchigawenga kuti ubwere ku United States komanso zambiri zokhudzana ndi kuteteza phindu la omwe amapanga zida komanso otchedwa makampani opanga chitetezo. ”
Hale anatchulanso mawu a 1995 omwe kale anali a US Navy Admiral Gene LaRocque: "Tsopano tikupha anthu osawona. Tsopano mukukankha batani mtunda wautali mtunda ... popeza zonsezi zimachitika ndi maulamuliro akutali, palibe chisoni ... kenako tibwerera kunyumba tili opambana. ”
Pogwira ntchito yankhondo kuyambira 2009 mpaka 2013, a Daniel Hale adatenga nawo gawo pulogalamu yaku US drone, akugwira ntchito ndi NSA ndi JSOC (Joint Special Operations Task Force) ku Bagram Air Base ku Afghanistan. Atachoka ku Gulu Lankhondo, Hale adakhala wotsutsa wotsutsa pulogalamu yakupha ya US, mfundo zakunja kwa US, komanso wothandizira oimba milandu. Adalankhulanso pamisonkhano, mabwalo andende. Adatchuka kwambiri mu zolemba zomwe zidalandira mphotho ya National Bird, kanema wonena za oimba mluzu mu pulogalamu ya drone yaku US omwe ali ndi vuto lakuvulala komanso PTSD.
A Sam Adams Associates akufuna kulonjera kulimba mtima kwa a Daniel Hale pochita ntchito yofunikira yaboma pamtengo waukulu - kumangidwa chifukwa chonena zoona. Tikukulimbikitsani kuti nkhondo ya Whistleblowers ithere ndikukumbutsa atsogoleri aboma kuti njira zobisa anthu mwachinsinsi sizinapangidwe kuti zibise milandu yaboma. Kuti izi zitheke, ufulu wa anthu wodziwa zolakwika zomwe boma lawo limachita - kuphatikiza zovuta zoyipa zomwe zachitika mdzina lawo - ziyenera kulemekezedwa ndikusungidwa.
A Hale ndi omwe alandila mphotho ya 20 ya Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. Anzake odziwika bwino ndi omwe anali a Julian Assange ndi a Craig Murray, omwe nawonso amangidwa chifukwa chonama. Ophunzira ena anzawo a Sam Adams Award akuphatikizira whistleblower wa NSA a Thomas Drake; FBI 9-11 woimba mluzu Coleen Rowley; ndi whistleblower wa GCHQ Katharine Gun, yemwe nkhani yake idafotokozedwa mufilimuyi "Zinsinsi Zovomerezeka." Gulu lathunthu la omwe adalandira Sam Adams likupezeka pa samadamsaward.ch.
Zambiri pazomwe zidzachitike pa Sam Adams Award zidzalengezedwa posachedwa.
