Australia's first war crime prisoner is a whistleblower | The Daily Aus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- For the first time, someone has been imprisoned in relation to Australia’s alleged war crimes. His name is David McBride. But he didn’t commit those crimes; he was the whistleblower for a 2017 report by the ABC that investigated alleged war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan. And this week, McBride was sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
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Come on, Australia! It's a crime against humanity to imprison an innocent person for speaking the truth.
They locked the whole country up.
Happens all the time. Australia is just like every other country where you keep your head down and mouth shut or you're dust.
For having the guts to stand up and speak out he gets 5 1/2 years prison. This countries government and the top military brass should be the one's locked away. As a former soldier I find this absolutely disgraceful
Are we even a democracy?
No, but you do have the illusion of living in a 'democracy'... it keeps the Sheeple calm.
Definitely not. Covid was a clear example of that.
Whistleblowers should not be jailed.
THANX - Better than 4 corners - Really disapointing in regard to Anthony Albanese and Mark Dreyfus
the actions of the ADF put national security at risk, not the whistle blower
Ur locking up a DAMN LEGEND !
I think he should not go to jail. In my opinion.
Australia s government would not know the meaning of Shane
A confusing figure who was trying to stop accountability within the Army. Not expose it.
Thankfully we have an eSafety Commission to help put a stop to such whistleblower's of lower stature that don't have access to corporate platforms that are willing to get this information out there, who instead rely on avenues such as social media. Mis/disinformation is of what the gov't makes it. Lucky us. 🤔
Aboriginal people.
And?
@@charliemarkovic4301 Just saying Aboriginal people you're offended.
@@Tshepo10111 your assumptions about my feelings are your contrivances alone.
oh a word association game, cool. umm: rape, incest, welfare, spousal abuse, theft, vandalism, lack of morals, lack of accountability, uneducated, unhygenic, didgeridoos, snotty upper lip, dot paintings, curfews. did i miss any cultural stereotypes based on outward appearences or am i only seeing things from an outward perspective?
The entire issue is not whether McBride whistleblowing the crime about "The Afghan File" The issue here is how he dissimilates the information. There are legal ways to disclose or "leak" the information you wanted. Many proper investigations, including Royal Commission follow the proper procedure (usually involve FOIA request) where the people involved can follow up the story while follow the proper dissimilate routine information.
Using your clearance to basically "steal" document to expose a crime is like, I know my neighbor is committing a crime, but no way I can find any evidence, and I break into that person home and illegal steal his stuff so I can proof he is committing a crime, by me committing another crime. You can't justify a crime with another crime.
Seems you've never been inside the government , or if you have you never had a high level security clearance.
@bonghead6621 I was a former US Army counter intelligence specialist, deployed to Afghanistan as part of Ranger regiment. I had TS/SCI security clearance and I was constantly briefed on security related matter.
You have to agree on how to use your security clearance before they grant you one. The issue is you cannot dissimilate classified information anyway you want especially its on an operational level. I will be jailed for 20 years if I try to just take out a TS Doc from a SCIF, regardless what I was going to do with that TS doc. As that document may contain operation parameters and put people that's unrelated to what he does in harm's way. You are literally exposing CI and operational detail.
How about you?
@@cosplayshop Kool.Sorry,my apologies,your comment didn't indicate that due to it's briefness,again,my genuine apologies.I still only partially agree with your degree of faith in institutions but I can see why you have such faith,confidence,
@@bonghead6621 This is not about trusting the faith of the government, this is about how much information you are going to burn and how important these info are if you made these doc public.
Say for example, I ran a TOC (Tactical Operation Center) in Afghan and my name would have been in those documents if these are my operation, but I would have nothing to do with this accusation, it's not like I order them to commit war crime. But my name is going to be out there. You are putting me as a target because of my knowledge on NATO comm and planning and have access to real time intel. Even tho I have nothing to do with the accusation at hand
You are going to burn a lot of local source, a lot of ops procedure and a lot of things just by going public. You can say you don't have faith for your government to do the right thing, but then can you trust ABC to safeguard national secret? Last I heard they don't run a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmentalised Information Facility) in the basement of the ABC office, what do you think is easier to hack? a level 5 government SCIF or the ABC's Datacenter?
@@cosplayshop I appreciate what your saying regards OPSEC, I've seen serious criminals escape capture for far longer than they should have due to such breaches,not sure McBride is guilty of compromising various sources,I simply don't know,however if he had he would have received a much stiffer sentence based on the paperwork I signed in the Australian army.
Regards national security,I hear you. The problem in my view is this definition definition and classification has expanded in the extreme to cover what at one time would have been staff in confidence,the government just wants to hide incompetence and save face and uses NATSEC as a justification. I'm no fan of the media by the way and of course such facilities are far more secure then the ABC.I think where we differ is regards what constitutes a national secret.As you well know some/much of this sensitive information has a time horizon. I can't speak speak to your experience but in mine the attitudes to the general public in the military and AFP by quite a few I found to be abhorrent.
Until you serve in the army you have no right to criticise them. 🇦🇺
You have to be a psychopath like Ben Roberts-Smith.
bollocks
wtf are you talking about? by your logic only soldiers should be allowed to criticize nazis
@@elitethat6617correct
Watch the footage of the crime and collateral murder, your comment is invalid
Have no clue why this got shown to me in swiss but was a very nice report .. subbed :) greets