Former army lawyer sentenced for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents
The former army lawyer David McBride has been sentenced to a maximum of five years and eight months in jail for his role in stealing secret defence documents about the Afghanistan war and
The charges included stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the ABC. It was used as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes committed by Australian defence personnel in Afghanistan titled The Afghan Files. The ACT supreme court justice David Mossop sentenced McBride to a non-parole period of 27 months. He said McBride was of “good character” but said his actions were driven by “misguided self-belief”.
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