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Whistleblower David McBride pleads guilty after court rules to withhold evidence over ‘security’ risk (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Whistleblower David McBride has pleaded guilty to three charges after an ACT supreme court upheld a commonwealth intervention to withhold key evidence it deemed as having the potential to jeopardise “the security and defence of Australia” if released.

The former military lawyer’s team suffered a blow on Thursday after they lost a legal bid to overturn a ruling by Justice Mossop preventing McBride from arguing he was fulfilling his duty to the public interest in releasing the classified documents.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I don't really care what the court says, this man is a hero and this is a gross injustice and a brilliant example of how law and morality are orthogonal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This must be insanely frustrating. Only more the reason to have a decent suite of whistleblower protection laws.