Despite the millions affected by the Iraq War, its now far removed from British and American news cycles, displaced from the headlines by todays political turmoil. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. 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. But Katharine only ever leaked this one memo. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! 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. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). 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. But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. Now, Trump says, he wants to see Iran back at the negotiating table. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new Feel free to republish and share widely. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the crime of telling the truth. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". And she said, I dont work for the government. That was my first thoughtwhat do you mean you dont work for the government? We typically, in the movie business, ever since Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero of A Thousand Facesand Im not meaning to be sarcastic because thats a great piece of work, but it spoiled the idea that every development executive is reading these books because the hero we meet and then something upsets their world and the antagonist that must equal the hero, and eventually we go through these loops and the hero triumphs in the end. According to the Guardian, Would you risk your job? "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. 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. [In real life] I saw the email, I immediately thought, 'Oh, my God, this is shocking.' We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. She could easily have been me or you at your place of work, where something comes across your desk and you go, This doesn't smell right. 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. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. 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. Again. [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.]. 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. 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. Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. To this day, however, there has been barely a mention of the year I spent living under a cloud. Although the story made headlines around the world at the time of the leak and later at the time of her trial, which collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence, it remains largely missing from the official narratives of the build-up to the Iraq war. At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. ", 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? After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she 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. I could put a lens on, and now my job is, this actress is doing great work, lets not get tricky, lets just get the audience into her eyes so that you could see those cogs moving. Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. 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. She was charged 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. Unfortunately. So, to find that it would be dramatised on the big screen was as wonderfully welcome as it was astonishing. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. 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. 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? The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. Iraq All Over Again? The editorial position should never be that. The legal case against Gun was eventually dropped by the British government in 2004, after her lawyer, Ben Emmerson QC (played in the film with fabulous charisma by Ralph Fiennes), threatened to use disclosure to put the legal basis of the war itself on trial. Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. 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. Her 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. There were some audience questions as well. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. And Assange is the same. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? It was an interesting experience because you couldn't really go bending things the way you thought would be more dramatic, you just have to make the story itself and hope there was enough drama there. Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. 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. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. If the email did reach the newspapers, I reasoned, there would be no more than a discreet summary. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. When I got to the interview thats when they told me that its for GCHQ, I didnt know what GCHQ did. So, I think she entered the world out of a sort of strange curiosity. That would be awkward. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." But depicting that climate, people who were not aware or active at that timedidn't realize how difficult this was to talk against the war both from the journalist's perspective and obviously someone who's in the intelligence community. Instead, the American coalition was 265 ratings46 reviews British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion. In one pivotal scene in the film, all of Gun and Bright's work is nearly undone by one mistake, as a member of The Observer team accidentally changed the American spelling of the memo into British spelling, something The Drudge Report then used to discredit the memo. 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? Which really, really, really happened. Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. Throughout her own court case, whatonly a few knew wasthat she was also fighting for the right of her husband, who is from Turkey, to remain in the UK. He said she didnt even know what the job was. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. She wasnt planning to get caught and then the dilemma was, My friends are all going to have their lives ruined.. I didnt know the story and I googled her. He is just way out there in a whole other realm. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. I don't know that consciously it did, it's just that I didn't know the story and so, for me, it was I asked Katharine, I flew to London, I met her for five days. He was actually gone for three days. I spent the following hours doubled over the toilet bowl in absolute terror. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. Sound familiar? This meant that a lot of the things that we see Gun go through in the film actually took far longer in real life. Some called her a traitor; others And just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. 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. I didnt know until I looked really deeply into this that theres really two schools of thought. Then the story went And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. This whole intelligence didn't match what the politicians were saying. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. 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. 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. ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. 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. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. By design. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. They're more polite to their suspects. First, I contacted someone to this day Ive never named them who had the details of a journalist and anti-war activist. They failed. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. Gun said that the UK government still had some explaining to do: "I thinkthere need to be more questions asked about whether they responded to that request, why they felt it was within their scope of work to respond to that sort of request, and what is the manner of the relationship between UK politics and US politics. A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. Not the truth, but the war. The comments below have been moderated in advance. She hoped that if people know about the lengths to which theyve gone to legitimize an invasion of Iraq, then it would blow apart, and people will suddenly think, No, this isnt right, and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down.. '", 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. Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. 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 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. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. "On the one hand, she's free. Was it because we had demanded the Attorney Generals legal advice as part of my defence? And she thought she wouldnt get caught. An insider with courage. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. 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. And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? He runs a media charity. 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. Two hours later after this deep dive, I called Ged back and said, How come we dont know this story? I guess the answer to that is that her story was big news for the day, and then very quickly got crushed by a bigger story, which was the story of the invasion. I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. That's really the simplest question: When do you speak up? Twenty-eight, pretty naive. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. She failed. You work for the government. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? You took this job and didnt even know what it was. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. 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. 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. 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. The truth was that in April of 2002, the two world leaders secretly had agreed on a plan to take out Saddam, all the while giving speeches insisting that the only motivation for even considering war was that horrific stockpile of deadly weapons. 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. But she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. So there is sometimes a thought in my head that says: What if Katharine hadn't leaked that memo? Or at least, she could have been. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. But again, I cant help but make some small jokes about these things. Gavin Hood: Yes, it really sticks in my throat too. I was suddenly free and bewildered. Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. However, Gun added that this was nothing on the anxiety she felt when the memo she had leaked ended up on the front page of The Observer, which she called "the most stressful memo of my life. David Dayen: And you were dealing with a story that was about a leak that didn't stop a war and leading to a trial that didn't happen. The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. And I know whose throat it really sticks in, is [British journalist] Ed Vulliamy, who I adore. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. We need a truth-sayer. As I walked down the red carpet, I had never in my life experienced the flash of so many cameras. 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. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. Later, she gave the document to a friend, who passed it onto a contact in the anti-war movement, until it finally landed with journalists Martin Bright and Ed Vulliamy The Observer. 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. And maybe they were right, I don't know. She went to this interview, the next minute were down this rabbit hole, the next minute my wifes telling the world. David Dayen: Just the notion that the paper would say, we're for the war, that was their editorial position. 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. He is wonderfully articulate but super pissed off, and his PTSDbecause hes been in Iraq for yearsmanifests at just disdain for that certain person you mentioned. 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. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. Gun had hoped the leak would prick the conscience of the British public, large sections of which were already taking to the streets in opposition to the war. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". 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. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. To legitimize an invasion and get rid of Saddam, a new UN Security Council resolution, going beyond SC1441 and specifically sanctioning the invasion, was the answer. Now there is the possibility that Gun's singular life will be made into a movie. Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. 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. This content is imported from youTube. ", Speaking to Gun, and seeing her in archival footage at the end of the film, it is clear that Knightley didn't try to emulate the look or sound of the real-life Gun. By the time the mid-eighties came around and I was a young law student, so Im looking at it from the side of the law, we had no right of access to lawyers in trial if you breached anything that was regarded as having to do with the emergency legislation. It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. Quality journalism. I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. We need another Katharine Gun. Us, in any situation, wherever you work, I thought that's what this timeless about it. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. 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. Me, you, not some big picture. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode It was almost as if that request was asking for someone within their own nation to do this work; it wasn't asking another completely independent state for co-operation.". If it was, who cleared it to be passed to GCHQ? The film also captures my determination to do what I believed was right and reveals how divisive the Iraq War was, particularly highlighting the anger within certain sections of the intelligence services as the sabre-rattling statements of Mr Blair and his spokesman Alastair Campbell were accepted without proper challenge by some in the media. 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. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. Every day we worked together for about five to six hours and then I referred back to her many times, subsequently, but I had literally just said, let's start at the beginning and let me hear first-hand from you your story and then I'll tell that story. 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. 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". 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. And I did the same for the journalists and the lawyers and everybody. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. By printing off the memo, putting it in her handbag and taking it home, she was already committing a serious breach of the Official Secrets Act. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' 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. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. If Keira Knightleys remarkable performance in Official Secrets can help change that, the film will truly have been worthwhile. Our institutions matter. Not good enough, the trio decided. And in her case, she risked both her job and her freedom and whatever you think of her politically, I think that takes some guts. Official Secrets Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers, Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. Id never seen anything like it. David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? You have no idea. Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. 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. 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. 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.". "Still no regrets," she said. Following the trauma inflicted on Gun, the U.K. Attorney General dropped the case against her with no warning. So somehow in my rolodex, sometimes they sought me out. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The story went around the world and the leak electrified the international debate during the weeks of diplomatic deadlock. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. The poor woman is based on a real person. As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. 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? "There seems to be this blas attitude the spying goes on, everyone does it and so it's nothing to get all hot under the collar about. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. 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