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Exposing War Crimes Riskier Than Doing War Crimes, Australian Man Finds (theshovel.com.au)
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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Prosecution pretty much even said that and worse;

In his summary video, McBride pointed out that the prosecution apparently had no problem with security issues over what he leaked but that it would ruin our international reputation to have had the leak.

ie McBride cannot be excused because other countries couldn't trust us with their own secrets if we have leakers like McBride potentially leaking those secrets.

And they are making out that McBride's only motivation was to complain about the prosecution of the lowly soldiers when in fact he was complaining about how only they were investigated while the top brass and government were left untouched.

The Defence Force is trying to give the impression that they are the ones prosecuting war crimes and he is the one protecting war criminals. The ABC are complicit in that false narrative.