A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media.
Daniel Everett Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on Thursday federal charges. 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."