His ex-wife supports him fully in what he is doing, and McBride's qualities as a loving father of two adolescent daughters are palpable.īut he also repeats many of his far-fetched ideas. Yet McBride also has an extraordinary life story crammed with colour, adventure and genuine achievements. Even his defenders acknowledge elements of his claims are fantastical. He openly acknowledges issues with mental health, having been medically discharged in 2017 because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and with a history of alcohol misuse.
The headline writers call him a whistleblower but to others he's a conspiracy theorist. The man at the heart of the leak that prompted the controversial police raid on the ABC's headquarters earlier this month is a complicated individual. He was convinced the much bigger story was that Australia's special forces had been hung out to dry by politicians and Defence brass obsessed with their own careers and popularity, and that this was just one element in a corrupt and degraded system that has left Australia's national security dangerously exposed. In fact, McBride wanted the opposite of the stories about possible misconduct by soldiers. But the story he wanted told wasn't the one that ended up appearing in the ABC under the title " The Afghan Files". At one point, he went to the Australian Federal Police. McBride, a military lawyer for special forces, pushed his report internally at first.
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