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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers
[There] is another man whose story has never been told before, who is speaking out publicly for the first time here. His name is John Crane, and he was a senior official in the Department of Defense who fought to provide fair treatment for whistleblowers such as Thomas Drake – until Crane himself was forced out of his job and became a whistleblower as well. His testimony reveals a crucial new chapter in the Snowden story – and Crane's failed battle to protect earlier whistleblowers should now make it very clear that Snowden had good reasons to go public with his revelations.
During dozens of hours of interviews, Crane told me how senior Defense Department officials repeatedly broke the law to persecute Drake. First, he alleged, they revealed Drake's identity to the Justice Department; then they withheld (and perhaps destroyed) evidence after Drake was indicted; finally, they lied about all this to a federal judge. The supreme irony? In their zeal to punish Drake, these Pentagon officials unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches when the 29-year-old NSA contract employee blew the whistle himself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @09:27PM
If it had a red cross or other neutral symbol then it wouldn't (in theory) have been targeted.
Remember that time they hit a doctors without borders hospital that was foolish enough to give the army their coordinates to avoid being accidentally hit? They might as well paint a target on the van.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday May 23 2016, @10:58PM
You didn't get much past a headline then. All the airmen involved were relieved of command (or removed from duty), reprimanded, counselled, and sent to retraining. The US President apologized and allocated money to rebuild the hospital, pay the wounded, and pay the family of the killed. The report said it was an avoidable mistake. The aircrew was given a target and they didn't check their list of coordinates to avoid. The target request was generated by afghans on the ground (though i am not pointing the finger at them, it was the gunships fault for not checking the coords). The gunship didn't look up the coords for the doctors without borders hospital and just decide to blow it up, as you accused. But i don't want to get trapped trying to defend the stupid shit my military does. Just wanted to say your remark is conspiracy theory stupidity.
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