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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

(Not me) Official video from David McBride's Official Youtube channel. If you don't know who he is - I don't blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten

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[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

that wording is misleading at best. 2 things were true

  • certain people were being overinvestigated in order to use resources so that others who were guilty of far larger crimes wouldn’t be investigated… that’s a VERY different thing
  • he also thought that significant war crimes were going unpunished and uninvestigated
[-] downpunxx@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

lol, no.

"He believed the dossier he compiled would show the ADF's chain of command was so concerned about the perception of unlawful killings that they were scapegoating soldiers and undermining special forces' confidence to do their work.

Instead, ABC journalist Dan Oakes found they contained evidence that Australian forces had committed war crimes and lied to conceal them.

"The more I looked into it, I couldn't conceive how anyone would think these guys were being too tightly monitored. It was precisely the opposite," he recently told the Four Corners programme."

yours is not what the ABC reporters, who were also under investigation for criminal security breach, and later had their investigation dropped, told the court were his intentions. what you wrote were his after the fact criminal defense strategy that he claimed were at the heart of why he leaked the documents.

the court found they were not, and that he was not entitled to whistleblower protection.

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