Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

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Tip of the ole iceberg. These traitorous scumbags should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

by Jerry Dunleavy | The Examiner May 09, 2019:

A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media.

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Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on federal charges Thursday. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment, but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of America’s military activities overseas.

Hale “printed off a series of Secret and Top Secret documents through his position with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, many of which he then provided to the reporter.”

The day that Hale is alleged to have met with the reporter at the reporter’s bookstore event, April 29, 2013, is the same day Scahill held a discussion and signing for his book Dirty Wars at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. The indictment states that in May 2013 Hale said the reporter “wants me to tell my story about working with drones at the opening screening of his documentary about the war and the use of drones.”

Jeremy Scahill

Scahill’s book accompanied a 2013 documentary of the same name that was critical of secretive U.S. military operations, including drone warfare. The indictment states that Hale again met the reporter at another book event on June 8, 2013 — the same day Scahill was hosted at Busboys & Poets for another discussion about Dirty Wars.

The indictment states that many of the classified documents were disclosed in an October 2015 news article. On Oct.15, 2015, Scahill published an article on the Intercept entitled “The Assassination Complex” and cited “a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars.”

Scahill wrote that the documents “were provided by a source within the intelligence community who worked on the types of operations and programs described in the slides. The Intercept granted the source’s request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.”

Hale is charged with crimes, including “obtaining national defense information, retention and transmission of national defense information, causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property.” Each of those charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

This is not the first time that the Intercept has been involved in a criminal leaks case. Reality Winner, a military contractor, was arrested in June 2017 for leaking classified information. The NSA document, which she leaked to the Intercept, was related to Russian efforts to hack into U.S. election systems. The Intercept published a story based on the document and was criticized for failing to protect Winner as a source. Betsy Reed, the Intercept’s editor-in-chief, eventually admitted that “at several points in the editorial process, our practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves for minimizing the risks of source exposure when handling anonymously provided materials.”

In August 2018, Winner was sentenced to over five years in prison.

Hale had been in the Air Force from July 2009 to July 2013, during which time he deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst with the National Security Agency. Hale then worked as a political geography analyst with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency between December 2013 and August 2014. Through these positions, Hale held a top secret security clearance of sensitive compartmented information, which the Justice Department says he used to leak stories to the media.

According to the unsealed indictment, beginning in April 2013 while he was still with the NSA, Hale met with the reporter in person numerous times and messaged with him many times, including through Jabber, an encrypted messaging platform.

The indictment says this began in April 2013 when Hale searched the internet for information on this reporter and, when he found the reporter would be appearing at a book store event in D.C. on April 29, 2013, he showed up at the event to meet him. They emailed, texted, and called each other throughout the spring and summer of 2013, and began to use Jabber as well when the reporter asked Hale to “just set up a [Jabber] account [so] we can chat on encrypted].”

It added: “On or about June 9, 2013, the reporter sent Hale an email with a link to an article about Edward Snowden in an online publication. That same day, Hale texted a friend that the previous night he had been hanging out with journalists who were focused on his story. Hale wrote that the evening’s events might provide him with ‘lifelong connections with people who publish work like this.’”

The indictment states that Hale “had been advised that the unauthorized displeasure of Top Secret information reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.” He is due to appear before a Nashville judge on Thursday.

The Washington Examiner has reached out to Scahill for comment.

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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

One must ask a simple question; will anything come of Intelligence Analyst, Daniel Everette Hale’s indictment for his Treasonous act? This Republic is rife with betrayers, subversives hell-bent on enabling and protecting those such as Hale. As a Doubting Thomas, I suspect those within the Judiciary, the DOJ, and those duplicitous within the FBI will furnish erroneous evidence to aid and abet his defense. More importantly, Hale’s treasonous act is not an isolated incident. The Leftists, the Democrats, Obama, the MSM, the likes of George Soros, and others are part of treasonous conspiracies.

The Judiciary, the government agencies whose task is to preserve and act upon our laws are either inept, biased or as culpable as Hale and others. If it were not so, the perfidious likes of Barack Obama, Hillary, and Bill Clinton, Ilihan Omar and a myriad of others would also face indictment for corruption and, or treason. The Judiciary especially holds weighted prejudices as does the FBI; if one is a Democrat, Islamic or of the Leftist scourge, the chance of prosecution or consequences is minimal.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

It’s terrible. Most of the REAL news never makes the network news. Here’s an example –

Official Deep Inside Obama-Era Defense Intelligence Agency Pleads Guilty to Spying For China…
Posted on March 15, 2019 by sundance

When Senator Chuck Schumer said the “intelligence community has six ways to Sunday to get back at you“, few realized he meant the IC were treasonous spies and the “you” was our country. An official within the DIA from 2014 to 2018 was selling U.S. intelligence secrets to China and he plead guilty today.

(Justice Department) Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, pleaded guilty today in the District of Utah in connection with his attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24, 2019.

Hansen retired from the U.S. Army as a Warrant Officer with a background in signals intelligence and human intelligence. He speaks fluent Mandarin-Chinese and Russian. DIA hired Hansen as a civilian intelligence case officer in 2006. Hansen held a Top Secret clearance for many years, and signed several non-disclosure agreements during his tenure at DIA and as a government contractor.

As Hansen admitted in the plea agreement, in early 2014, agents of a Chinese intelligence service targeted Hansen for recruitment and he began meeting with them regularly in China. During those meetings, the Chinese agents described to Hansen the type of information that would interest the Chinese intelligence service.

During the course of his relationship with the agents of the Chinese intelligence service, Hansen received hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for information he provided them, including information he gathered at various industry conferences. Between May 24, 2016 and June 2, 2018, Hansen solicited from an intelligence case officer working for the DIA national defense information that Hansen knew the Chinese intelligence service would find valuable.

Hansen agreed to act as a conduit to sell that information to the Chinese. Hansen advised the DIA case officer how to record and transmit classified information without detection, and explained how to hide and launder any funds received as payment for classified information. The DIA case officer reported Hansen’s conduct to the DIA and subsequently acted as a confidential human source for the FBI.

As Hansen further admitted in the plea agreement, Hansen met with the DIA case officer on June 2, 2018, and received from that individual documents containing national defense information that Hansen previously solicited.

The documents Hansen received were classified. The information in the documents related to the national defense of the United States in that it related to United States military readiness in a particular region and was closely held by the United States government. Hansen reviewed the documents, queried the DIA case officer about their contents, and took written notes about the materials relating to the national defense information.

Hansen advised the DIA case officer that he would remember most of the details about the documents he received that day and would conceal some notes about the material in the text of an electronic document that Hansen would prepare at the airport before leaving for China. Hansen intended to provide the information he received to the agents of the Chinese intelligence service with whom he had been meeting, and Hansen knew that the information was to be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation. (read more)

U.S. tech companies won’t help the U.S. military, but they will help the Chinese Military? Chinese 5G tech products set up for data collection. U.S. congress members and senators oppose Trump’s new trade proposals, but they support existing one-way pro-China trade. The entire Wall Street and financial punditry class rail against Trump’s tariffs against China…. Anyone else noticing a pattern here?

More here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/15/official-deep-inside-obama-era-defense-intelligence-agency-pleads-guilty-to-spying-for-china/

D.Moore
D.Moore
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Have you watched American Thought Leaders video on youtube with Tony Shaffer? very enlightening video

D.Moore
D.Moore
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Have you watched American Thought Leaders with Tony Shaffer on your tube, very good video

aebe
aebe
4 years ago

If Hale might wind up swinging for his crime, shouldn’t the clintoon be given the same opportunity?

Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights and Carry!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

I’m quite sure he planned on being an anal-lyst just to do this. Crybaby fatherless moron type.

teachersaide
teachersaide
4 years ago

I sincerely HOPE that ALL who reveal Classified Data end up in court! THAT includes Hillary & her illegal email server.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Hale most likely will be protected by the swamp.

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Nope they will hang him out to dry. He should be hung period.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

Put this scumbag in prison for the maximum. These Demorats must be punished in for us to have a viable government.

puttputtn
puttputtn
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

In cases like this where a us government employee sells secrets to enemies of the USA I think capital punishment is appropriate. A message needs to be sent to other us citizens that this is a line no one should cross. Period!

Larenzo1
Larenzo1
4 years ago

Hang both the bastards publicly. Then these traitors will get the message.

Jim
Jim
4 years ago

Both of them should be executed. Period.

patd
patd
4 years ago

If the government would start giving the sentence of death then this crap will stop!!!! Start hanging the traitor and the one receiving the classified information!!!!!

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

analyst needs jail with bubba

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