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David McBride: commonwealth prosecutors seek jail sentence for Australian defence whistleblower

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Former army lawyer asks for leniency on basis of ‘exemplary character’ after pleading guilty to leaking secret defence documents to media

in jail for more than two years for his role in leaking secret defence documents on the Afghanistan war to the media, a court has heard.

Speaking outside court, the former military lawyer defended his actions as standing up for “Australian values in the face of a government who has lost sight of the job”.

A total of 235 documents were taken by McBride from defence, mostly in the ACT, between May 2014 and December 2015 with 207 of them classified as secret and some marked as cabinet documents.

 

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