Former Australian army lawyer charged with leaking secret documents to journalists says his prosecution is not about protecting national security but concealing 'a national shame.'
David William McBride speaks to the media after appearing in the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court in Canberra, Thursday, June 13, 2019. The former Australian army lawyer charged with leaking secret documents to journalists says his prosecution is not about protecting national security but concealing "a national shame."
The leak was the target of a police raid on ABC headquarters in Sydney last week. Police raided the Canberra home of a News Corp. reporter a day earlier in search for unrelated classified documents. The raids have been criticized as an attempt to intimidate media and have sparked complaints that the dozens of national security laws Australian governments have passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States have undermined press freedom.
McBride admits to leaking documents that formed part of the basis of an ABC investigation broadcast in 2017 about Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The ABC reported growing unease in the Australian Defense Force leadership about the culture of special forces and that Australian troops had killed unarmed men and children.
“I have no doubt, once I’m acquitted, that the media and the world will hear about what went on because the reality is that none of it is truly national security,” he added. “I’m not going to go into all the details, but what I saw appalled me,” McBride said. “I’ve been to the killing fields of Rwanda, I’ve been to Afghanistan under the Taliban. What I saw in the Australian government in 2013 and the leadership of the ADF was worse than anything I’d ever seen in my life. It was disgusting and once every Australian hears about it and understands the implications, you would be ... absolutely sickened. You would be ashamed to be an Australian.
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