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He better be careful in Australia being a whistleblower. https://apnews.com/article/mcbride-whistleblower-court-prison-afghanistan-war-crimes-e3fd2301d22d35ee3

by pkaye 2y ago

He better be careful in Australia being a whistleblower. https://apnews.com/article/mcbride-whistleblower-court-prison-afghanistan-war-crimes-e3fd2301d22d35ee348668b91b02d6bb https://apnews.com/article/mcbride-whistleblower-court-priso...

2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
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- richrichie 2y ago
  There is no such thing as legal leak. Only if you leak for the right cause, which is typically to damage an inconvenient thorn of a person for the state apparatus. Then you are fine.
- thrance 2y ago
  He was morally justified in exposing war crimes.
  - defrost 2y ago
    McBride? Exposing war crimes was an unintended self own for McBride. He was British Army (Northern Ireland) through and through, came out to Australia, failed to make the SASR and worked instead as an army lawyer. He leaked documents with the intent to "expose* how "increasingly restrictive Rules of engagement and the nature of investigations into members of the special forces" were making things worse for the poor squaddies doing their job. What happened was journalists looked into all his leaked documents and focused instead on the poor squadies kicking "bad guys" off cliffs, blooding new soldiers with execution kills, etc. His stated goal for leaking was to impede | stop investigations into war crimes: Justice David Mossop stated "the way you’ve explained it is that the higher-ups might have been acting illegally by investigating these people too much, and that that was the source of the illegality that was being exposed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower)
  - scheme271 2y ago
    That's fine, what he's not morally justified in doing is publishing the material without vetting and exposing people in Afghanistan and Iraq to harm from islamic radicals.
- Sabinus 2y ago
  Maybe don't classify evidence of war crimes?
- deleted 2y ago
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- protocolture 2y ago
  Maybe dont commit war crimes lmao. Maybe make it legal for journalists to report on government atrocities.
- blast 2y ago
  Daniel Ellsberg is widely considered a hero for doing that. Before he died he was arguing strongly that Assange did the same thing he did.

by pkaye 2y ago

2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago

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richrichie 2y ago
There is no such thing as legal leak. Only if you leak for the right cause, which is typically to damage an inconvenient thorn of a person for the state apparatus. Then you are fine.
thrance 2y ago
He was morally justified in exposing war crimes.
- defrost 2y ago
  McBride? Exposing war crimes was an unintended self own for McBride. He was British Army (Northern Ireland) through and through, came out to Australia, failed to make the SASR and worked instead as an army lawyer. He leaked documents with the intent to "expose* how "increasingly restrictive Rules of engagement and the nature of investigations into members of the special forces" were making things worse for the poor squaddies doing their job. What happened was journalists looked into all his leaked documents and focused instead on the poor squadies kicking "bad guys" off cliffs, blooding new soldiers with execution kills, etc. His stated goal for leaking was to impede | stop investigations into war crimes: Justice David Mossop stated "the way you’ve explained it is that the higher-ups might have been acting illegally by investigating these people too much, and that that was the source of the illegality that was being exposed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower)
- scheme271 2y ago
  That's fine, what he's not morally justified in doing is publishing the material without vetting and exposing people in Afghanistan and Iraq to harm from islamic radicals.
Sabinus 2y ago
Maybe don't classify evidence of war crimes?
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protocolture 2y ago
Maybe dont commit war crimes lmao. Maybe make it legal for journalists to report on government atrocities.
blast 2y ago
Daniel Ellsberg is widely considered a hero for doing that. Before he died he was arguing strongly that Assange did the same thing he did.