Defence whistleblower sentenced to years in jail

has been sentenced to five years and eight months’ jail for stealing and then disclosing classified military information to ABC journalists.

While the defence said McBride was motivated by exposing what he believed to be criminal behaviour by military top brass, the prosecution argued he never articulated through official complaints what the actual criminality was before leaking the files and publishing material on a website called The Ops Room.Mossop said the disclosure of sensitive documents forced Australia to alert allies about the security breach.

Mossop said McBride was not a nefarious character but had become “obsessed with the correctness of his own feelings” and did not give any weight to the idea that military processes were not corrupted. He acknowledged there was a risk of McBride’s poor mental health worsening in prison.

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