That is such a cop out. We're not here on HN to be intellectually lazy and appeal to authority.
> Thanks to Hale’s disclosures, the public learned that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90 percent of those killed by US air strikes were not the intended targets.
This is information that NEEDS to get out and be available to the general public. If people don't continue to leak information on crimes against humanity, America will continue to be a warmonger.
welcome_dragon|4 years ago
>His crime consisted of taking classified information about the US drone program and giving it to journalist Jeremy Scahill.
titusjohnson|4 years ago
> Thanks to Hale’s disclosures, the public learned that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90 percent of those killed by US air strikes were not the intended targets.
This is information that NEEDS to get out and be available to the general public. If people don't continue to leak information on crimes against humanity, America will continue to be a warmonger.