(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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    2 months ago

    Telling a mod of the community you’re in to “blow me”? Brave move.

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻OPM
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      2 months ago

      I find it amusing how confidently incorrect they are quoting some BBC article (because the BBC would have the best idea as to what is going on in Australia).

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        2 months ago

        ABC : [which I’m sure is also oversimplified, poorly worded for an international audience]

        "He spent months staying back at night gathering secret files from his work computer, compiling an internal complaint about the ADF leadership alleging that SAS soldiers were being wrongly accused and illegally investigated for war crimes.

        “If there is political bullshit going on against soldiers, and it doesn’t matter whether they’re SAS or not, you need to stand up for it,” McBride says.

        His complaint was dismissed."

        "McBride fled to Spain, leaving his two young daughters with his ex-wife Sarah in Canberra. He also left behind four plastic tubs filled with classified documents in a lounge room cupboard at his apartment.

        In his absence, the AFP conducted a search and found the secret files."

        Principled Einstein. Obviously.