(Updated: May 21, 2019)
Since the start of the Snowden revelations inward June 2013, at that topographic point convey been to a greater extent than than 25 publications based upon classified documents provided yesteryear other leakers than one-time NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Now, one-time intelligence analyst Daniel E. Hale has been identified equally the source of 6 of these non-Snowden leaks. He was arrested on May nine in addition to charged amongst providing classified documents to the website The Intercept.
The illustration is highly remarkable, offset because the FBI already found out Hale's identity almost 5 years agone in addition to did non fifty-fifty arrest him when The Intercept published The Drone Papers inward Oct 2015. Secondly, Hale did only equally picayune to rest out of the picture: he featured inward a documentary around the fourth dimension the FBI raided his home.
Some of the slides in addition to documents which Daniel Hale leaked to The Intercept
The abbreviations inward the centre slide are explained here
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Intelligence career
Daniel Everette Hale was born inward 1987, is straight off 31 years old in addition to living inward Nashville, Tennessee. Despite his ideological disagreements amongst the military, he joined the U.S.A. Air Force inward July 2009 out of desperation because he was homeless. At the Air Force, he became a linguistic communication analyst in addition to was assigned to operate at the National Security Agency (NSA) from Dec 2011 to May 2013.
From March to August 2012, Hale was deployed equally an intelligence analyst inward back upwards of a project forcefulness of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) at Bagram Airfield inward Afghanistan, where he was mainly responsible for identifying in addition to tracking targets for the drone program. He left the Air Force inward July 2013.
From Dec 2013 to August 2014, he worked for the defense forcefulness contractor Top Secret/SCI clearance, only similar for his previous job.
The 1.8 billion U.S.A. dollar headquarters edifice for the ca. 16,000 employees of
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency inward Fort Belvoir, Virginia
(photo: Marc Barnes/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Contact amongst Scahill
Already inward Apr 2013, almost 2 months before the start of the Snowden revelations, Hale used his unclassified operate calculator at the NSA to search for data on Jeremy Scahill, who therefore worked for Amy Goodman's intelligence programme Democracy Now!. In Oct 2013, Scahill would bring together Glenn Greenwald in addition to Laura Poitras to found the investigative website The Intercept.
On Apr 29, Hale attended a presentation of Scahill's mass "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield" most the drone killings programme nether president Obama. The side yesteryear side day, Hale used his Top Secret NSA calculator to search for classified data most people in addition to issues most which Scahill wrote, according to the indictment.
Investigators had been able to recall Hale's text messages in addition to found i which he sent to a unopen friend inward May 2013, which read: " [Scahill] wants me to tell my storey most working amongst drones at the opening screening of his documentary most the state of war in addition to the purpose of drones."
On June 8, Hale was i time again acquaint at a mass presentation, where he was seen in addition to recorded on video (see below) sitting correct side yesteryear side to Scahill. In the side yesteryear side months they contacted eachother yesteryear call upwards in addition to yesteryear e-mail.
Although Hale had already used his classified operate calculator for searching most related topics, at that topographic point are no indications that he was already planning to pocket in addition to leak classified documents, at to the lowest degree before September 2013, when Scahill asked him to ready a Jabber line of piece of work concern human relationship for encrypted chat conversations.
Book presentation at Busboys & Poets inward Washington, DC on June 8, 2013,
amongst Jeremy Scahill (center) in addition to Daniel Hale (right)
Printing classified documents
According to the earlier posting on this weblog, I listed 28 revelations at diverse media platforms, accompanied yesteryear i or to a greater extent than leaked documents that were non attributed to Edward Snowden.
Trying to position their source, I assumed that a therefore unknown "source nr. 3" was responsible for the documents that were scanned from newspaper in addition to amongst a to a greater extent than or less armed services content:
Source nr. 3 (someone from U.S.A. armed services intelligence?)
- NCTC watchlisting guidance
- NCTC terrorist watchlist report
- Ramstein AFB supporting drone operations
- The Drone Papers
- Cellphone surveillance catalogue
- FBI & CBP edge intelligence gathering
Comparing the dates of these 6 publications amongst those inward the tabular array from the indictment leads to the next conclusions:
- Daniel Hale provided the documents for the offset 5 revelations I attributed to Source nr. 3: from the "NCTC watchlisting guidance", which was published yesteryear The Intercept on July 23, 2014, to the "Cellphone surveillance catalogue" from Dec 17, 2015.
- The fourteen master documents most "FBI & CBP edge intelligence gathering", which I assumed could also convey been provided yesteryear source nr. 3, are genuinely non amid those that Hale printed out. Therefore, those files convey to last leaked yesteryear individual else, in all likelihood an FBI or CBP employee.
- The indictment lists 4 unclassified documents (O, P, Q in addition to R) in addition to says these were published inward Dec 2016, but therefore far no i seemed aware of a similar intelligence or national safety revelation inward that month.
Clapper's blog
Looking for articles that Jeremy Scahill published inward Dec 2016 led me to a brusk storey most four unclassified documents, which are i time again scanned from paper: a screenshot of a weblog post from May 29, 2013, handwritten letters to in addition to from Clapper in addition to a few comments on that weblog post.
This weblog post is only a curiosity compared to the other documents, therefore it seems the entirely ground that Hale printed this out, is that the primary comment, posted nether the nickname "Wormy", is his own. The comment warns against increasing restrictions on civil liberties, amongst arguments based upon the U.S.A. Constitution in addition to the Bill of Rights - it reminds of how Snowden unremarkably argues.
The documents leaked yesteryear Daniel Hale in addition to published yesteryear The Intercept
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Raided yesteryear the FBI
On August 8, 2014, correct later Daniel Hale's assignment at the NGA had ended, the FBI raided his home. This was only 3 days later he had printed out his terminal document at the NGA in addition to some 2 weeks later The Intercept published its offset article based upon his material, which agency the FBI identified in addition to found him rather quickly.
At his home, FBI agents found a pollex drive amongst the TOR software in addition to the TAILS operating system, both used for anonymous cyberspace communications. Also found was the unclassified (and unpublished) document T on his calculator in addition to i page of document A, which was classified Secret in addition to published inward Oct 2015, on a pollex drive.
Why Hale brought these files inward digital cast to his home, later having already printed the documents at his operate position at the NGA, is non clear, but it was careless in addition to unnecessarily risky.
It is non known how precisely Hale was traced, but a tweet from his lawyer, Jesselyn Radack seems to advise that The Intercept failed at their source protection. That would last their third time, because NSA linguist Reality Winner in addition to one-time FBI agent Terry Albury had already been arrested due to The Intercept's sloppyness.
But Daniel Hale was bad at operational safety (OPSEC) equally good in addition to did picayune to rest out of the picture: already inward Nov 2013 he began Former intelligence analyst charged amongst leaking drone details to intelligence outlet
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