45 months imprisonment for US military personnel on charges of revealing UAV secrets.
A former US Air Force intelligence analyst has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for revealing top-secret information of US military drone operations in Afghanistan.
A former US Air Force intelligence analyst was sentenced to 45 months in prison on Tuesday for leaking top-secret secrets of US military drone operations, news sources reported Tuesday night.
According to the Associated Press, Daniel Hill, a Tennessee statesman and former US Air Force intelligence analyst, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking top-secret information about a US drone program to a journalist.
Daniel Hill stated that his motive for disclosing confidential information to an investigative reporter was the killing of civilians in Afghanistan by drones. Referring to the need to deter others from disclosing government secrets, a U.S. District Court judge said Daniel Hill has other charges besides sharing classified information with the reporter.
U.S. prosecutors have argued that Hill, who was sent to Afghanistan in August 2012, abused the US government’s trust, knowing that the documents he shared would cause serious and in some cases serious damage to US national security. As a result of Hill’s actions, the world’s worst villains obtained documents classified by the United States as “secret” and “top secret,” U.S. prosecutors said.
Hill’s mission in Afghanistan was to locate drone strikes and track cell phone signals associated with Afghan militants. Hill said he felt guilty watching the killing of Afghan civilians.
A recent Brown University study of Afghan civilian casualties in US airstrikes shows that civilian casualties were reported. In 2019 alone, 700 civilians were killed in US airstrikes. Under US President Donald Trump, the number of Afghan civilian casualties in airstrikes has risen sharply.
