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Australian defence force officer stripped of security clearance over loyalty to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The man told Asio interviewers he did not view Israel as a foreign government and that he would share classified information with the Israel Defense Forces if they asked for it.

Asio said the officer, who is Jewish and served 19 years in the Australian military, withheld information from Australian officials about training courses he had undertaken in Israel – where he is not a citizen – which included self-defence, security and firearms training.

He joined a Sydney community security group (CSG) as a volunteer between 2014 and 2023. The CSG is a community organisation that provides security and intelligence services to the Jewish community.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Frankly sounds like this man needs to discharged, and charged as a foreign agent.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Absolutely.

If he is prepared to break his standing orders and spread classified information on the request of a foreign power, what else would he do if requested by them.

Divided loyalties needs to be treated as no loyalties in this case.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It takes a special kind of stupid to admit you'd commit treason the moment you're asked as a military officer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Yeah, not sure how they even got a clearance if that's the level of judgement they showed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or he knew they already knew, trying to hide it at that point is also stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At that point you say nothing. Defendants shouldn't do the prosecutions job for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure how Australian military court; differs from their civilian court.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

At least it was a dumbass mega racist and not a slightly less dumb one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I came here expecting some controversial politics, not "$foreignNation is not a foreign nation to me". At least he's an honest idiot.