So when, on the first Sunday of March, 2003, my leak appeared on the front page of The Observer newspaper, I was overcome with shock. So, that's where we had to go for WMD. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. He was actually gone for three days. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? But I talk to people and there does seem to be a sense of failure that, despite all the campaigning and all the marching and all the protesting and everything they did, it made not a ha'porth of difference. By the time Gun and around 100 of her colleagues received the emailed memo that would change her life, she had already come to the conclusion that the arguments for war with Iraq were not really valid arguments, she tells me. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. What happened to Gun afterwards forms the basis of the film Official Secrets, which opened in New York and Los Angeles earlier this month and goes into wider release today. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. But when Gun's lawyers threaten to question the U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith about Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, the government drops their case against Gun. Gavin Hood: And that really happened. When do the clocks change in 2023? But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. Us, in any situation, wherever you work, I thought that's what this timeless about it. She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. Gavin Hood: Thats such an interesting statement, I mean, I just took it at face value that papers take an editorial position, but youre right. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. Now the goal is not truth, it is victory. Which really, really, really happened. I've seen that happen. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. It is probably still too early to tell. It wasone of the reasons I came to this country in 89 was because we were getting drafted, and I thought I cant do this. You work for the government. Instead, the American coalition was You are sitting in the intelligence services, and Ive spoken to many now because Ive made other films in that world and I have some interesting folks that Ive been able to talk to, and the struggle was were being disloyal if you dont toe a party line, as it were, but we know this isnt right. And I went, Oh, that's how much that superhero myth is in our system. We didn't end up making it with that studio. As a result of the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, she was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act. The British are quite British, you know. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. So when I sent the script to Keira, and I was very hopeful that she would do it because she does a lot of period dramas, and you dont often see her in a modern drama and I thought shed be great. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? America, Britain, and Spain withdrew their proposed resolution on invading Iraq when it became clear that it would not garner the necessary Security Council votes, in part because of the information Gun brought to light. We all, in some ways, make these decisions. Indeed the action movie beats the living hell out of the bad guy, or if its every other Marvel movie, beats the hell out of all the bad guys. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she Was it because we had demanded the Attorney Generals legal advice as part of my defence? The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. When my turn came, I entered a small side office, faced the security official and, putting on my best poker face, denied any involvement. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. So somehow in my rolodex, sometimes they sought me out. Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). To look at someone who I thought was quite accessible and ordinaryand she doesn't mind me saying this because Katharine is someone who keeps her head below and is quiet, and did something extraordinary. Right: Entertainment One, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. That's the memo. Its Straussian, over the top and pretentious but basically amounts to this. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. If the email did reach the newspapers, I reasoned, there would be no more than a discreet summary. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. Following the trauma inflicted on Gun, the U.K. Attorney General dropped the case against her with no warning. A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. It's a fascinating film that really evokes the dangers of speaking out in the post-9/11 age, as well as the press's inability to challenge the official story on Iraq, particularly the U.S. press, which really just blacked out the Gun leak entirely. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. And I went back in 93 and did another two years with the new Department of Health. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. WebGun, then 28, received an email about a U.S.-led operation enlisting the help of Britain to spy on other countries, in an attempt to blackmail them into supporting the Iraq War. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. If Keira Knightleys remarkable performance in Official Secrets can help change that, the film will truly have been worthwhile. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. This meant that a lot of the things that we see Gun go through in the film actually took far longer in real life. And I thought: this is good. We need another Katharine Gun. Despite the risk of a harsher sentence, I decided to plead not guilty because I felt strongly that my actions had been intended to prevent the unnecessary loss of life in an illegal war. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. That seems like the central undercurrent that is playing throughout the entire film. I spent the following hours doubled over the toilet bowl in absolute terror. For several years, just recalling the events would set my heart racing and my hands trembling. With the operation blown, the chances of George W Bush and Tony Blair getting the consensus for a direct UN mandate for war were now near zero. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. Our institutions matter. Much to the distress of our former partners in the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement and announced tougher sanctions. Do you vote, do you analyze who you should vote for or do you just take it for granted? Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. Theyre talking about diplomatic negotiations, and having all the cards on the table, but behind that what theyre doing is trying to bribe UN diplomatic members to vote for a war which has no legal justifications, Gun says. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. ", As for her own story, she recognises that 10 years on it scarcely registers with the public. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. EXCLUSIVE: Lanzarote sticks to its guns and insists it WILL limit tourists and move away from relying on Jeremy Clarkson is axed as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. Sorry to digress. And it's a tough profession in many ways. Before 1989, there had been a Public Interest Defence to protect whistleblowers, but that was altered amid the furore surrounding the sinking of the Argentinian Navy cruiser, the General Belgrano, in the course of the Falklands War. Whatever, she blew the whistle ultimately revealing the truth behind the build-up to the Iraq War--regime change, disguised as terrifying threats of weapons of mass destruction. [Gun's husband Yasar, a Kurd, was nearly deported back to the Middle East at one point, even though he had nothing to do with the leak.]. A decade on, sitting in a cafe in Cheltenham, not far from GCHQ, I asked her if she still stood by what she had done. Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. If we give over, if we start believing the fake news, as you say, we're all doomed, man. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. But Katharine Gun, whos now the subject of a new film, the Gavin Hood-directed Official Secrets, did a lot moreand became one of the most important political whistleblowers that most Americans have never heard of. Whistleblower Katherine Gun, right, is played by Keira Knightly in the movie Official Secrets, Gun was outraged after she learned - as part of her job with GCHQ - that the United States wanted Britain to assist in spying on fellow United Nations Security Council members to win a vote in favour of a planned war in Iraq. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. Iraq All Over Again? From nightmares to candy cravings, the seemingly innocuous habits in Man is banned from touching every parking meter in Liverpool for two years after being convicted of theft, Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Do not sell or share my personal information. David Dayen: The first thing I thought about when looking at this movie is that in most recent historical epics, the audience knows what's happening next. The increasing presence of US Navy ships and a B-52 bomber task force in their neighborhood might provoke the Iranians to load up their missiles. '", The reality was not nearly as dramatic as in the film, where Bright and his editor are together in a newsroom when the mistake is revealed, leading to them being dropped from interviews with a number of international news outlets. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. Later, it turned out that the Attorney General had indeed judged the war to be illegal in his initial advice, but that fact was not revealed until six years later in 2010. Instead, the American coalition was forced to stake its claim to a legal invasion on grounds of self defense, including now-infamously untrue claims about weapons of mass destruction. Marcia Mitchell is a writer, researcher, and the author of "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion." "But the more I think about what happened, the more angry and frustrated I get about the fact that nobody acted on intelligence. The difficulties of translating Gun's story also made writing the climax of the film tricky. Gavin Hood: I asked her the same questions, and on about my second day interviewing her, I said to her, because I wasnt sure if I should make the movie; I mean, I needed to know whose story I was telling and if she was batshit crazy. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" She said, I was naive. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. Feel free to republish and share widely. Only now, more than a decade and a half later, is this disturbing sequence of events once again receiving the attention it deserves thanks to Official Secrets, a brilliant new movie starring Keira and former Doctor Who, Matt Smith. In the film, when Gun is sent an email from someone high up in the U.S. government that reveals the U.S. covert plan, she decides to leak it to Bright, who works for the British newspaper The Observer, which then publishes it on their front page. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. We go to the canteen and we talk.. Whistleblower and former employee of Britain's global surveillance center GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) Katharine Gun smiles as she speaks to the media during a press conference February 25, 2004 in London, England. Everyone involved assumed the project had run into the dust, but then it appeared on the Black List, a Hollywood website for unmade film scripts, which has featured Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech in the past. It was written in technical language, but the meaning was clear enough: the Americans were asking around 100 people in GCHQ to gather information from the communications made by diplomats from six nations Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea and Pakistan all which were then sitting on the United Nations Security Council. I became a mother, we moved countries and I have come to terms with that year of my life, though it will always define me in some ways. Direct to your inbox. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. Though celebrated Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg would later call Guns actions the most important and courageous leak in history due to her efforts to save lives through preventing a war, she obviously didnt succeed in stopping the invasion. After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. And just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. The central issues of whistle-blower protection, public interest disclosures, journalistic freedom and the accountability of our elected representatives continue to be just as relevant today. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". Those are compelling and important qualities to see in characters that move through a story, and I feel like especially for women it's an under-valued active engine. So important was this email, I knew it might even derail the case that Tony Blair was making for joining the Americans in an invasion. Yet to this day there has been barely a mention of the Bush regimes disgraceful demand in official histories of the period, as if its been deliberately written out. We had planned to demand that the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith disclose the advice he had given on the legality of the war and so put the war itself on trial. Please help keep the independent journalism of Common Dreams strong. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. Sound familiar? The issue is provocation. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. In technical speak, the Americans wanted the whole gamut of information which would give US policy makers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals in relation to Iraq. At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. Only later did I appreciate the extent to which the journalists involved Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy had to go in order to prove that the email was legitimate. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. So she said, Can I just do nothing with my hair, put on the jeans like Katharine wore? So the wardrobe is accurate to Katharine's style. In real life, "the spellcheck largely happened through a series of phone calls," according to Bright, "because on a Sunday newspaper we don't work on a Sunday, and we don't work on a Monday. Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. As the working day came to close, I tried to project a sense of calm I didnt feel, walked out of the gates and put the incriminating email in the post. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. We started working on this three years ago and even then it felt relevant in the sense that the challenges we talked about earlier: Where does my loyalty lie? WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. I actually think the little memo lands on our lap more often than we think, even if it's just who I should vote for. Does anyone have any questions? Questioner: The only thing that I've wondered while watching the film, since it's a true story, is how could Ms. Gunn, who was a spy, who was a member of an intelligence agency, be surprised when her husband got deportedor when the government came after her husband, how could she be surprised when all of the different reactions she got came forward? So important was this email, I knew it might even derail the case that Tony Blair was making for joining the Americans in an invasion. And when we got to that point in the movie, I had to start montaging it because it was just taking too long to get to the end. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. The work shed signed up to do was covered by British law, and would be something to do with whatever that was necessary to keep British lives safe. The memo, however represented the actual twisting of diplomatic arms in order to secure a war which [was] based on lies., But it also represented an opportunity to show the world the tactics American and British officials were willing to employ in their push for an invasion. Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. She said, You mean I dont have to wear a corset? To your point, in some way, she said to me, As a woman, its kind of ironic as an actress that I so often, even though Im in the modern world, that I have to find heroic women in period dramas wearing corsets. Theres something weird about that. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? WebAttempts were made by the authorities to deport her husband, who grew disillusioned with Britain. So thank you for being here, it means a lot. For all the relief, there was a weird sense of anti-climax that we would now be unable to give our side of the story to the public. Before 1989, there had been a Public Interest Defence to protect whistleblowers, but that was altered amid the furore surrounding the sinking of the Argentinian Navy cruiser, the General Belgrano, in the course of the Falklands War. Me, you, not some big picture. Koza was in effect issuing a direct order to the employees of a UK security agency to gather "the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises". Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. "One of the things that we discovered quite early on when he was interviewing me was that a lot of stuff was just happening in my head. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. You may not know the name Katharine Gun unless you live in the United Kingdom, but she was a pivotal figure in the run-up to the Iraq War. "Because I think people see thatthe leaders of both the US and the UK conceivably could be considered war criminals, and yet they are walking free.". "You get to the end, and there's this court case. So I said to her at one point, and its in the movie because her interrogator said it too and you would ask her the same question, which is Katharine I hear all this, but it was a little muddy, you worked as a spy, you hacked peoples phones and computers, you do dirty tricks. This content is imported from youTube. It gives me an interesting pause. But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. I was only a junior analyst, but I knew the email was outrageous: the American government was asking Britain to spy on United Nations diplomats so they could be blackmailed into supporting an invasion of Iraq. The truth is that I didnt know who Katharine Gun was until my producer Ged Doherty called me up one day, we made Eye In The Sky together, and said, Have you ever heard of Katharine Gun? Thats one of those moments where you think: Sounds like I ought to have, but I hadnt. Now there is the possibility that Gun's singular life will be made into a movie. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Gun, her husband, and their four-year-old daughter shed their coveted privacy long enough to allow Katharine to be one of two former Sam Adams Award winners to present this year's award. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. You have no idea. This was her first or second week at the paper. She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. Sometimes movies can be an effective way to make forgotten stories part of our national narrative, and in that sense, Official Secrets comes not a moment too soon. WebFor example, a scene where Gun tries to get her husband out of an immigration detention center actually played out over three days during which she did not know where he was. The editorial position should never be that. I know what it is like to watch the system become completely authoritarian. Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. She also opposed the pending war. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. If there had been a UN resolution, there would have been no need to make a WMD argument because there are two legal ways to go to war. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. WebHer late husband, Tom, a former special agent of the FBI and one-time head of counter-intelligence in New York, co-authored the Gun story. In a year that the U.S. president is accused of pressuring foreign governments for political gain, the story behind the film Official Secrets seems particularly timely. Or at least, she could have been. What we have in this country is very precious, and in a sense, when I make these kind of films I don't know if I consciously do it, it's actually reminding about us that authoritarianism and governments gone awry are not okay, and what makes us strongoh, that sounds terribly pretentious, but I think you see where I'm coming from. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. However, the Pentagon says the US deployment is "in response to indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against US forces and our interests.". So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. The email, which was sent by an American NSA official, suggested that the US was just as well aware that it couldnt earn UN support through valid arguments alone: The memo outlined a plan to bug diplomats from non-permanent UN Security Council Nations Chile, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Guinea, Angola, and Cameroon in search of intelligence that could be used to cajole and possibly even blackmail them into supporting the invasion. I didnt know until I looked really deeply into this that theres really two schools of thought. It remains entirely to the credit of Roger Alton, at the time the paper's editor, that he stuck with the story, despite its potential implications. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" She had received an email in her inbox asking her and her colleagues to help in a vast intelligence "surge" designed to secure a UN resolution to send troops into Iraq. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. Not the truth, but the war. But she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. None of the Government reports into the war acknowledged it, nor did the history books. 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The memo from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the "regional targets" section of the National Security Agency, GCHQ's sister organisation in the US, remains shocking in its implications for British sovereignty. He said she didnt even know what the job was. This, remember, was a conflict that caused the deaths of 179 British servicemen, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and caused countless more to suffer serious wounds, both physical and psychological. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. Would you risk your job? So, Im not really answering your question well, but her feeling was just: Now I dont belong in this company. 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