Australian Military Whistleblower Sentenced to Almost 6 Years in Jail

A former lawyer for Australia’s army, David McBride, has been sentenced to five years and eight months in jail for taking 207 classified documents from his employers and handing them to journalists. The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory found his actions were not justified by the public interest. Mr. McBride originally intended to defend three charges of stealing and unlawfully sharing secret military information in a jury trial due to commence last November. But he changed his plea to guilty when he lost an appeal after it was ruled—in a preliminary hearing—that he was not entitled to the “public interest defence.”...