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David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

He was a defense lawyer for a couple of soldiers tried for war crimes, he did the leak because he was annoyed the grunts were being charged, but their officers who ordered/let the war crimes happen only saw court as a witness for the prosecution

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