Lame

On Thursday, as leaked secrets about U.S. drone warfare attracted global news coverage, LanAnn Bryant was warned the Islamic State group may have her personal information and she should be on the lookout for anything suspicious.

The public school teacher’s son Brandon – a former drone operator turned whistleblower – was in Germany to testify before a parliamentary committee, and she became suspicious as two men from the Air Force's investigative arm warned her about the jihadi group.

She was told not to share their vague warning with anyone outside her family.

  USNews

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Why would IS be after someone who was blowing the whistle on US drones? I know it's not true, but why would the US government/military think this is how to intimidate the whistleblowers?

[The soldier's lawye,r Jesselyn Radack, says] it’s not the first time authorities have given such a notice to her drone whistleblower clients. In late March, she says, the stepparent of another client, who she declined to publicly identify, was given a similar warning, as was Brandon Bryant himself.

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Brandon Bryant, a Predator drone operator who left the Air Force in 2011 and subsequently slammed the program's leaders for the amount of collateral damage they impose, was contacted by the FBI.

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“It’s no coincidence at all that this happened on the same day as The Intercept’s series on the ‘drone papers’ and on the same day Brandon was testifying before the Bundestag,” she says of the most recent visit.

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Radack might be right that the timing of the warning LanAnn Bryant received was no coincidence, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations says.

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But the spokeswoman insists the warnings are not being cooked up to spook dissidents.

“[T]his had absolutely NOTHING to do with whistleblower intimidation!!!” the spokeswoman, Linda Card, said in an email.

Of course not.

She says “this investigation was to protect her, to let her know her son was treading on some dangerous ground and it’s gotten ISIS's interest and she needs to be aware of her surroundings, that’s it.”

Because she can exert pressure on her son to shut up? No. Because a threat to a person's family often serves to shut the person up. But, from IS?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.