It was only later in the green room that I asked what all the fuss had been about, wondering aloud if it had been the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion. The more we find out that in fact the million-person march was a real cause of worry for Downing Street and for Blair personally, it makes you think we were so close and yet so far.". So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. 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. In the matter of a few years. 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. ", Hood added: "You know, to this day, I mean, the real journalistic question is, who would like to go and really press Lord Goldsmith and Ken McDonald for the reasons why they really dropped their case? 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. 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. But, maybe if I didn't know and maybe if I went into that job and discovered oh my God, maybe I really can stop a terrorist attack today. One is reminded of the January 31, 2003 Oval Office meeting with George Bush, Tony Blair, and Condoleeza Rice, in which the topic of provoking Iraq to start a war was particularly revealing. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. 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. It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. Gun was visiting friends and family in Cheltenham when I talked to her, with the strain obvious on her face but still looking much younger than her 38 years. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode Even though she didn't stop the war and some people are like what's the point if she didn't stop the warwell, the point is how do you sleep at night? Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! Guided by her conscience, Katharine Gun defied her government and leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom, her safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire Iraq invasion on trial. 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. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. 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. WebIn 2003, Katharine Gun exposed a plot by U.S. security officials to spy on United Nations members as they ramped up pressure to secure a resolution to go to war with Iraq, and 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. However, when her friends start being interrogated about the leak, Gun confesses to being the whistleblower, leading to her being arrested and taken to court for breaching the Official Secrets Act. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. Jack Straw, then the foreign secretary, has not been challenged on whether he authorised the operation to go ahead, although it is almost certain that he did. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" And if, 16 years ago, you had told me that one day my life story would be portrayed by Keira Knightley, Id have laughed and changed the subject. WebKatharine Gun, as passionately embodied here by Knightley, skews too noble to be particularly interesting, and the film is weakest when its focused on her and her husband It should take the facts as they lead. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. "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. Not only was the cable the most sensitive ever to be disclosed on either side of the Atlantic, it was also unique in its timing. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. Thankfully, time passes and the intensity of feelings fades. Ive been impressed by the film-makers determination to stick to the facts Gavin Hood, the director, interviewed me at length over five days and I was consulted throughout the process. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. But Katharine only ever leaked this one memo. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. 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. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Maybe thats rewarding. 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. Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for [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.]. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. Powerful Commons committee could look at case for banning stoves in towns and Love Island hit by hundreds of Ofcom complaints from furious viewers over 'toxic femininity' row and Movie As easy as buying a loaf of bread: Undercover footage reveals how laughing gas is being sold from local Could Northern Ireland become the UK's Silicon Valley? It gives me an interesting pause. They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer, en years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. WebI disappeared with my husband down to the coast in Brighton, on the coast of England, and spent some time away from the limelight, Gun said in the interview. 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. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. According to the Guardian, Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. 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. At first, I heard nothing. Unfortunately, perhaps, I have a conscience and my dishonesty gnawed at me persistently until the next day, when I confessed. 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. Provocation? She said to me, Gavin, I had no problem doing the work that involved a lot of listening in, in order to give information about trade negotiations, to give our country the advantage of trade negotiations when they go. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. And she and many in her world knew, and many in the CIA knew, as Mel Goodman who's the man in the boathouse in Washington knew, that this was B.S. She didnt know where he was for three days and she took the train down from Charlton to London to see the MP, Nigel Jones, who said exactly what he says in the movie. I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' What do you think resonates? I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. And I thought: this is good. She made the point that if you have Helen Mirren playing the Queen or Meryl Streep playing Maggie Thatcher, everybody knows those people and your judged on how well you impersonate, if you will, those people. And the reason? Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. Or at least, she could have been. Give today. And I know whose throat it really sticks in, is [British journalist] Ed Vulliamy, who I adore. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evi-dence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start? A translator for UK intelligence agency GCHQ, Gun read a brief from the US National Security Agency urging its British sister organisation to spy on members of the UN Security Council, to gain influence i n a vote Instead, the American coalition was Perhaps they knew it would come out in the courtroom that the entire conflict was based on lies about Saddams weapons of mass destruction and that key UN officials could have been blackmailed. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. The difficulties of translating Gun's story also made writing the climax of the film tricky. During the American-lead 2003 campaign for United Nations support for an invasion of Iraq, Gun, who's played in the film by Keira Knightley, was a 28 year-old Mandarin translator working for the UKs Government Communications Headquarters, the nations equivalent of the American NSA. Spoilers to follow as well. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. 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. 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. And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. Does your loyalty lie to your own conscious, does your loyalty lie to your marriage, does your loyalty lie to your government, does your loyalty lie to your country? Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the, Don't mention the Iraq war, William Hague tells cabinet, Tenyears on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid, Occupying Iraq: a US army veteran's ambivalence, Howthe Bush administration sold the war and we bought it, the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act, collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence. Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. We even got as far as the Old Bailey. Gavin Hood: Yes, it really sticks in my throat too. Iran has been filmed loading missiles aboard some of its vessels. And that I think was the motivation. Our institutions matter. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. It turned out a copyeditor at The Observer had run the memo through spellcheck before printing it.]. And I thought this is going to end in the worst civil war. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. 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. The email was demonstrating the depths to which the American and British governments would descend in order to get spurious legal cover for a war in the Middle East which would have utterly catastrophic consequences, as we know to our cost today. Then, the world is safer until the sequel when it all happens again. Daniel Ellsberg, the celebrated American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the build-up to the war in Vietnam, described it as "the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen".He added: "No one else including myself has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.". 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. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. You might say I am biased. 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. 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. Feel free to republish and share widely. The contents were explosive, implicating America in a blackmail plot to swing UN votes in favor of an invasion. It is probably still too early to tell. 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? Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. These superheroes, and I don't just mean superheroes in the movie sense, but larger-than-life big political figures, or Edward Snowden is almost mythical in his brilliance whether you like what he did or not, he is sort of not me. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. But any such illusions were shattered on the freezing cold morning of Friday, January 31, 2003, as I read and re-read the most extraordinary email from Americas intelligence service, the National Security Agency. David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. For me as a journalist who was really getting started around that time, this climate of fear that was in place in the United States and also in the UK. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. Just occasionally Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. 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. 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. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. 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. WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. Where do you draw the line? And maybe they were right, I don't know. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. It was the first time I had worked with characters who were still alive, and they very much wanted it to be accurate or they wouldn't sign over their life rights. Chile and Mexico and the other smaller countries were so outraged that they refused to even bring it to a vote. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. 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. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. That's the memo. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She will not talk about it anything else. She leaked a memo, she thought she'd get away with it, and she faced another one of these little moral dilemmas which was a few days later all her friends were being interrogated. ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? Today, I believe the Act serves as an illiberal, draconian piece of law, little more than a weapon of the state to deter any disclosure, no matter how much in the public interest it might be. Ive already lost a dear friend, and I cant do thisget called up two months of the year, every year, for the next 12 years. So thank you for being here, it means a lot. Webdeport Guns husband, Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Muslim Kurdish Turk who was awaiting permanent leave to remain in the U.K. Or, in this case, when the Office of Special Plans was set up, youve got Feith and someone like Abram Shulsky, whose philosophy of intelligence is very different. If I was writing this as fiction, I need a much longer court case, right? Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. Ms Gun worked as a translator at the GCHQ building in Cheltenham, pictured. 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. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? We need another Katharine Gun. 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. Iran, meanwhile, says it doesn't want war, but will defend itself. We need a truth-sayer. 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. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. When Official Secrets received its British premiere at Londons BFI Film Festival earlier this month, I was determined to wear something that held a special meaning and settled on a dress by an Iraqi designer. Sound familiar? Which is to say that GCHQ was being asked to dig dirt on foreign officials so that they could be blackmailed, bribed or both in order to secure a UN resolution authorising an invasion. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. Moment fitness influencer asks man to move off park bench 'because he's 'ruining her livestream' - but Mortgage demand plummets to a 28-year low as average interest rates hit 6.71% - just as spring home buying Britain braces for brutal -9C Arctic snap: Met Office warns more snow and ice could lash the country next Is YOUR wood burner at risk? 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