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Being at #DanielHale's sentencing last week and seeing no camera crews from local or national media outlets wait outside is a sobering reminder how much the reporting landscape has changed.

It was similar situation at #RealityWinner's pre-trial hearings. That is the reason my team and I took on a second independent documentary project. We felt that someone needed to witness and film the proceedings and treatment of Reality, which was much harsher than we expected.

The other journalists who showed up consistently for #RealityWinner's pre-trial hearings were also independents like @tkbarnes and @kgosztola, as well as a few local news reporters.

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Sonia Kennebeck

@soniakennebeck

Today is #NationalWhistleblowerDay. Please support #nationalsecurity #whistleblowers who have made some of the most important disclosures in the history of the United States, and have suffered tremendous consequences.

Among them are @DanielEllsberg @JesselynRadack @Thomas_Drake1 @Bill_Binney #ThomasTamm @xychelsea #StephenKim @JohnKiriakou @Snowden #RealityWinner @S_UnwantedSpy #TerryAlbury #DanielHale

By definition whistleblowers reveal information in the public interest. They expose government misconduct, such as information about unconstitutional mass surveillance, torture, the secret drone war, foreign election interference, discrimination, civil and human rights abuses.

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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More

"In other words, if you tell the public the truth about your government's crimes, you will be made an example of so nobody else tries to do that." #DanielHale
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For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More (Audio)

"All US government statements about authoritarianism in other nations are invalidated by its treatment of whistleblowers and journalists."
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Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret government information about America's psychopathic civilian-slaughtering drone assassination program.
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Daniel Hale Support Team

@TeamDanielHale

THREAD: Our friend #DanielHale has always had a way with words. Here are some excerpts from his testimony at sentencing today that we thought we'd share.

Help us call on President Biden to #FreeDanielHale: standwithdanielhale.org

It is abundantly clear that #DanielHale is a man of exceptional honor and conscience. He doesn't belong in prison.

Help us #FreeDanielHale: standwithdanielhale.org

We may never know the truth of the U.S. drone program's secret killing of countless civilians if it weren't for our friend #DanielHale.

#FreeDanielHale: standwithdanielhale.org

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Kevin Gosztola

@kgosztola

Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale will be sentenced within the next hour, and if the US government has its way, he will receive the harshest sentence ever issued against someone for releasing documents without government authorization to the press.

THREAD will follow sentencing

Daniel Hale, who was involved in drone program while in US Air Force and deployed to Afghanistan: "The most disturbing thing about my involvement in drones is the uncertainty if anybody that I was involved in 'kill or capture' was a civilian or not. There's no way of knowing."

US prosecutors say Daniel Hale shared documents with a reporter for "self-aggrandizement," and it was not to inform American citizens. But @soniakennebeck, director of "National Bird" (in which Daniel appeared), wrote a letter to the court that counters this attack.

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Sonia Kennebeck

@skdocs

My new film UNITED STATES VS. REALITY WINNER is about #RealityWinner who disclosed one document about Russian election interference to the media and received the longest prison sentence ever imposed on a #whistleblower in federal court: 63 months.

Reality Winner is in prison right now, where she had contracted COVID-19, and is especially vulnerable because of underlying health conditions such as a history of respiratory illnesses, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression.
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Our independent film team documented the harsh prosecution of #RealityWinner in Augusta, GA, along with journalists @kgosztola & @tkbarnes. Reality and her family faced an overwhelming adversary, the US Government that wanted to make an example out of then 25-year-old Reality.

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