# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-hale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:17:09.513Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-hale"
name: "Daniel Hale"
slug: "daniel-hale"
description: "Daniel Everette Hale is an American whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst who sent classified information about drone warfare to the press. Hale served in the United States Air Force 2009–2013 before joining the National Security Agency and leaking classified documents to The Intercept. In 2021, he pled guilty to retaining and transmitting national defense information and was sentenced to 45 months in prison. He was incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois. He was released on July 5, 2024."
tagline: "Former employee of the US National Security Agency"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Everette_Hale_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1987-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             0.46875
  historical:           4.845504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA)"
    title: "دانيال هيل (مسرب معلومات)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale"
    title: "Daniel Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale"
    title: "Daniel Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale"
    title: "Daniel Hale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_(intelligence_analyst)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107039875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump