not only did justice burton find that everything, david mcbride said was true. he recommended that no charges be filed for mcbride's decision to go to the media. and what was it that david mcbride alleged? he said that while he was serving in the australian army as an attorney, he saw that $25.00 australian soldiers were responsible for the cold blooded murder of 39 afghan civilians. the soldiers then planted weapons on the dead bodies in order to photograph evidence to justify the killings in something they called throw downs. david mcbride did the right thing. the bremerton commission says so the australian media says so the australian public says so. so why does the government insist on prosecuting him? were joined by whistleblower. david mcbride. david, welcome to the show. so glad to have you. thank you very much for having me. it's an honor. thank you. the pleasures ours. let's start at the beginning. you have a personal history of public service. you attended sidney university and then earned a 2nd degree at oxford. you joined the british army and served i

not only did justice burton find that everything, david mcbride said was true. he recommended that no charges be filed for mcbride's decision to go to the media. and what was it that david mcbride alleged? he said that while he was serving in the australian army as an attorney, he saw that $25.00 australian soldiers were responsible for the cold blooded murder of 39 afghan civilians. the soldiers then planted weapons on the dead bodies in order to photograph evidence to justify the killings in something they called throw downs. david mcbride did the right thing. the burton commission.

not in a galaxy far far away, but closer to home. australian whistleblower david mcbride talks about his experiences in the latest episode of the whistleblowers when the former british army officer found himself under investigation. as after he disclosed documents revealing a legit, australia, military crimes in afghanistan. quite clearly, i became the problem and that is one of the things i guess it was a loss on. if you with what your recording is really bad. the old i see you're according to probably already knew and i don't. boy, what you've done is reveal yourself as a promo. and i became a 100 and i was, i guess it was surprising because i knew the leadership were involved. i knew the leadership, this could not have happened without the general's least having some idea of what was going on. and i had to make my internal complaint to those very same generals who had some idea of what was going on. so i had a feeling it would go well, but i still as a lawyer, i knew that i had to make the internal complaint. otherwise they would, you know, i really would be, i could go straight t

one of the best and most recent examples is from australia where david mcbride, a former australian army attorney, is facing criminal charges because of his.

david cameron, we can now look at all these bills. so we're back at old things. and ed balls getting tell mcbride'shen he was education minister was racking up in all the best restaurants of westminster some i enjoy much. my westminster some i enjoy much. my case the taxpayer doesn't get harmed and we're talking about £1,000 meals that a i don't know who's taking out what's he taking out union buses. would you take teachers? i can understand when the foreign office spends a lot on entertainment and cocktail parties as foreign dignitaries, you might you know, i don't think president macron is going to be happy going mcdonald's to be happy going to mcdonald's . understand why an . but i don't understand why an education minister is having these kind of same expenses. and then in in that book, he referred to power trip by david bright. he talks about when he's over washington, in york over in washington, in new york , brown , how he goes , with gordon brown, how he goes out to bars . we have we have out to bars. we have we have some of these quotes here that we can show on the screen . this we can sho