Afghanistan

NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars

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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz sold his defense contractor Metis Solutions for $92 million, earning between $5-$25 million personally. The company won lucrative Afghanistan contracts while Waltz advocated for prolonged military engagement, raising significant conflict of interest concerns.

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Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes

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Former Air Force intelligence analyst and NSA contractor Daniel Everette Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison for leaking classified documents that exposed the devastating civilian toll of the U.S. drone warfare program. His disclosures revealed that nearly 90 percent of people killed …

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U.S. Airstrike Destroys Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Kills 42

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A U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship launches sustained airstrikes against a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 42 people including 14 staff members, 24 patients, and 4 caretakers. The attacks continue for more than an hour despite frantic phone …

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CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide

| Importance: 8/10

Gul Rahman, an Afghan detainee, dies of hypothermia at a CIA black site in Afghanistan known as the “Salt Pit” after being shackled half-naked to a concrete floor in a freezing cell overnight. Rahman’s death is ruled a homicide by the CIA’s medical examiner, yet no one is …

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