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to journalists

James Risen of New York Times.

Supporters of Sterling described

him as a whistleblower.

But prosecutors

claimed he leaked

the information to settle

a score with the Agency.

Sterling is scheduled to

be sentenced in April.

He faces a maximum possible

sentence of decades in prison.

I was told that they forgave

me for the part I played

and what happened to

them and that's amazing.

And when you think about that

these people are considered,

you know, of military age,

terrorists, all of that,

you can see people's hearts.

I just want people to

know that not everybody is

a freaking terrorist,

and we need to just

get out of that mindset.

And we need to see these

people as people, families,

communities, brothers,

mothers, and sisters

because that's who they are.

Imagine if this was

happening to us.

Imagine if our children were

walking outside of their door

and it was a sunny day, and they

were afraid because they didn't

know if today was the

day that something

was gonna fall out of the sky

and kill someone close to them.

How would we feel?

DANIEL:
I think as any activist

would be, I am primarily

optimistic about the world,

you know, for all the cynicism,

and pessimism that

comes out of me.

I think that when

it really comes

down to it you just have a...

You have a love for humanity.

A love for human

beings and one another,

that you believe that there

is the possibility of change

and that another world

is possible, as they say.

HEATHER:
If I see an article

about the drone program

or something and,

like, see how people

talk about cold hearted

killers, things like that.

That was me, like,

that was my job.

Of course, like, it still is me,

that's... you are your history,

but if you have any

conscious at all, you know

that what you did was wrong.

And you know that for

the rest of your life

it's going to be that.

You can't undo what

he did, and you

can't bring those people back.

So it's something

that you live with.

LISA:
We are in the

United States of America,

and we are participating

in an overseas war.

A war overseas, and we

have no connection to it

other than wires, and keyboards.

Now if that doesn't scare

the crap out of you...

It does out of me...

Because if that's

the only connection, why stop?

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Published 05/04/2017

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