That is such a cop out. We're not here on HN to be intellectually lazy and appeal to authority.
> Thanks to Hale’s disclosures, the public learned that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90 percent of those killed by US air strikes were not the intended targets.
This is information that NEEDS to get out and be available to the general public. If people don't continue to leak information on crimes against humanity, America will continue to be a warmonger.
It was not even a year into Biden's presidency that he approved bombing of children and aid workers in Afghanistan, as the singular publicized military action post official withdrawal from the region, and not a single person has said anything beyond an extended "oops".... yet there is almost zero care in public discourse because he's on the "correct" team. The same team as Jacobin magazine.
>His crime consisted of taking classified information about the US drone program and giving it to journalist Jeremy Scahill.