On Thursday, an indictment by the US Attorney for the Eastern
District of Virginia was unsealed against former intelligence officer
Daniel Everett Hale, 31, who was charged with multiple counts of
violating the Espionage Act including illegally obtaining secret US
government documents and giving them to a journalist.
No reporter or news organization was named in the indictment.
However, important details indicate that the journalist is Jeremy
Scahill and the publisher is the Intercept. In October 2015, the Intercept
published an eight-part series of articles by Scahill called “The Drone
Papers,” based on a cache of top-secret slide presentations provided by
an anonymous source.
