McBride shared confidential documents with journalists out of arrogance and the pursuit of personal vindication rather than a sense of duty, the prosecution argues.
Defence whistleblower David McBride shared confidential documents with journalists because of arrogance and the pursuit of personal vindication rather than a pure sense of duty, the prosecution argues, as it calls for the former military lawyer to be jailed for more than two years.
The classified documents leaked to journalists by McBride led to a series of reports alleging Australian special forces troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan, contrary to what McBride had insisted the story was.about 23 incidents of potential war crimes, which involved the killing of 39 Afghans and cruel treatment of two more between 2005 and 2016.
“Anything less would fall outside the appropriate range ,” she said. “A period of imprisonment of two years doesn’t reflect the seriousness of the offending.”
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