Episode

Revealing Australian war crimes

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The Whistleblowers
Published
Jan 10, 2025
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1519
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Summary

Feb 3, 2024 05:50 Revealing Australian war crimes David McBride is a former British Army officer and a lawyer with the Australian Special Forces who blew the whistle on war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. It would be great if these stories always had happy endings. Unfortunately, they don’t. On this week’s episode of Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou speaks with David McBride about how the Australian government insisted on prosecuting him, and about his choice to plead guilty.