What I don't understand is how the case wasn't thrown out by the justice when he wasn't allowed to see the docs that were then put in the safe. THIS IS NOT A FAIR TRIAL. The defendent is prevented from presenting potentially exculpatory evidence, even to a closed court!

Conversations for android is an example of a good XMPP client.

Senator Wong has said that Israel is a friend. She's said the same of the USA. If that is so, I have one thing to say:

Friends don't let friends genocide.

Mate, come on... Why would you say such a libellous thing about my 'countrymen' (and -women)? Nobody likes serial killers and mass murderers. And what we loathe even more is corrupt top brass and politicians washing their hands of their responsibility in the war crimes. All we want is to live our lives in peace but we keep getting dragged into bloody wars by our [censored]* foreign partner and puppet politicians.

*this information I gather lives on 'documents in the safe' which were scooped away from the court and the judge's eyes due to 'national security' concerns.

Depends, how stiff is his neck?

100%, it's total BS! Kafka coulnot have come up with this farce.

Remember how in November the court ruled on the definition of 'duty'? Michael West reports that if McBride gets a prison sentence on Tuesday, there will likely be an appeal:

If there is a custodial sentence, sources told MWM the defence is likely to appeal on grounds that Justice Mossop’s decision to strike out of McBride’s public interest defence was too narrow, that army lawyers had a duty to the court and the public interest, not just to obey orders if they considered the orders were wrong.

https://michaelwest.com.au/david-mcbride-sentencing-reserved-as-defence-pushes-for-jail/

The abc is not biased at all in this, no. They're not the ones he leaked to.

You make it sound like he accidentally leaked evidence of war crimes. He leaked evidence of war crimes comitted by generals as well as boots on the ground but somehow the abc's top 'investigative reporters' ie gov't stenographers are still missing that.

...is like something you'd expect from a dictatorship. Are we the bad guys, actually?

I have to correct you there. The full unredacted cables are still online on various sites. Including cryptome. They have been online this entire time. Yes, no-one was harmed, but not because they put the cat back in the bag (you can't). Once other sites had published it, WikiLeaks republished the full trove as a risk-mitigation measure so that the compromised names could quickly make themselves aware that their name was out there. WL also contacted the State Department to try and warn them of the risk. There is footage of this.

The US spent tons of money trying to find anyone who'd been harmed by Manning's leaks but found no-one.

WikiLeaks had been drip-feeding big stories based on the cables. The compromise of the encryption key to the full unredacted archive by Luke Harding and David Leigh of the Guardian put a stop to this unfortunately. They stupidly published the encryption key in their book. Once people found the encrypted file online it didn't take long to put 2 and 2 together.

Military whistleblower David McBride at the end of an exhausting day in court. Sentencing adjourned to Tues 14th May, 9.30am. Please be there!

video - McBride talking to 9 News after court: https://x.com/Melbourne4Wiki/status/1787452129134907844

Thank you. This made my day! 😂😂😂

Ok, so where is the collusion with a foreign power in the Manning publications? Tell me, which charges did they drop that alleged espionage, rather than talking to a source and publishing information?

Again, Assange pleaded guilty to journalism. Your Espionage Act criminalises encouraging sources and publishing info about war crimes.

Russia is now doing the same thing to a US journalist for the WSJ, accusing him of being a spy.

Thanks!

This is the best explanation of the case in full context I've seen.

I'm gutted. Devastated.

We have got to the stage where the governments are more concerned about secrecy than they are about crime.

-- David McBride

That's certainly a big part of it.

I think it's the opposite. On Mastadon you can make a new account on a better server ie mods more aligned with you. On bluesky if you make a new account and say a similar bannable thing again you'll be banned again.

Wikipedia is not proof. The sources it links, CNN and Reuters, are not proof.

Calling me names doesn't make you right.

Ever heard of licensing?

The WikiLeaks statement said RT, an English-language network launched by the Kremlin in 2010, obtained a license to broadcast the show but was not involved in the production process or the editorial decision-making, which was overseen by Assange.

Quoted from: https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/julian-assanges-tv-show-gets-launch-date/news-story/3db33f96811bf274505ac3ce65c8a469

https://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/about.html

slechte headline. Ze zei niet de schuldbekentenis, maar de prosecutie criminaliseert journalistiek.