Ex-intel analyst says seeing a US drone kill a child pushed him to leak military documents that he faces 11 years behind bars over

Men look at wall graffiti depicting a U.S. drone along a street in Sanaa, Yemen, November 9, 2013.REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Daniel Hale, a former intel analyst, faces 11 years in prison for leaking docs on US drone strikes.
Hale wrote an 11-page letter to the court explaining why he leaked the docs, offering gruesome details.
"I came to believe that the policy of drone assassination was being used to mislead the public," Hale wrote.
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"War is trauma."