David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents - eviltoast

Complete bullshit. Regimes that punish whistleblowers harder than war criminals reveal themselves as dreaming of tyranny.

The entire trial was cooked, and I’m furious :(

That non parole period is nuts too, pure revenge. What danger does this man represent? If he’s out on the streets some war criminals better watch their backs?

edit: I should add, it’s also quite frustrating that at the end of all this top brass has had no light shone on them, which was his initial goal on leaking. He thought the SAS was being investigated overmuch as a distraction from leadership failures. I guess we’ll never know. A slap on the wrist for the executioners, no systematic investigation, and an inconvenient man in gaol.

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    The material was used as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes committed by Australian defence personnel in Afghanistan.

    If it’s war crimes the good of humanity should come above the good of a regime committing war crimes.