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I woke up to the terrible news that #DavidMcBride was sentenced to 5 years+8 months in prison
His crime? Having a conscience
He revealed #WarCrimes by #Australian special forces in #Afghanistan
David McBride: former army lawyer sentenced to five years for stealing and leaking Afghanistan war documents
McBride, who pleaded guilty to stealing commonwealth information and passing it to the ABC, receives non-parole jail term of 27 monthsSarah Basford Canales (The Guardian)
yesterday #Guardian #Australia #ChristopherKnaus reported on a declassified U.S. cable which I just obtained through #FOIA litigation against the US #StateDepartment
The cable provides indisputable evidence that US diplomacy monitored #Australian supporters of #JA & #WikiLeaks:
US officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for ‘anti-US sentiment’, documents reveal
Previously classified papers detail how the US embassy in Canberra responded to WikiLeaks’ release of embassy cables in 2010 and ‘sensationalist’ local mediaChristopher Knaus (The Guardian)