His exact words to describe the intelligence method is, The goal of the intelligence is not the truth, but victory. That is a quote from Shulsky. Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. So, I guess we all have a threshold. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. "You get to the end, and there's this court case. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. So here we are in rehearsal, and we're talking one day about the look. And maybe they were right, I don't know. 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. But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? Right now my priorities are to ensure I am there for my daughter.". When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, she said, they tell you not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential. Still, she printed off the memo, tucked it into her purse, and took it home. 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. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. 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. 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: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. 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.". It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. Questioner: It was so heartening to hear you talk about that hero's journey because I feel like we so often take compassion, passion, integrity for granted as a call to action. We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. So somehow in my rolodex, sometimes they sought me out. 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. Over the weekend, I got to work. 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. 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. None of the Government reports into the war acknowledged it, nor did the history books. So right there, you are pulling out the highlights," said Hood of the key issue with making Official Secrets. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! 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. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. Some called her a traitor; others 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. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. Again. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. Give today. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. Maybe thats rewarding. 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. "Still no regrets," she said. Sound familiar? That kind of propaganda has to stop. 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. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. As a film of her story is planned, she tells of her anger and frustration but not her regrets, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Katharine Gun back in Cheltenham last week: 'This is the ugly truth of what goes on.' British Secret Service Officer Katharine, then a young bride, risked everything to leak details of the Bush-Blair plan to coerce (possibly blackmail) members of the UN Security Council in order to win their votes to legalize invading Iraq. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. We were in development with a particular studio, and I don't mean to be funny after such a heavy film but sometimes we need a little bit of humor. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. 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. But my point is simply this: The underpinnings of this country matter. An insider with courage. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. But I do want to give her credit that I think I didn't do her justice enough in the moment that she leaked that memo; it changed so quickly to war that we don't really get a moment to absorb the fact that as a result of her leaking that memo, there was no vote at the UN Security Council. I sensed a slight flash of anger as she said: "It's not even a footnote in the history of Iraq." 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. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. 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. 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. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. And I think thats why you get this very honest, pure, deeply felt performance. What do you think resonates? Now, Trump says, he wants to see Iran back at the negotiating table. 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. 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: Just the notion that the paper would say, we're for the war, that was their editorial position. Was the British government aware of it? Never mind that invading another country for the purpose of regime change is illegal according to international laws to which the United States is a signatory. WebWe speak with a British whistleblower whose attempts to expose lies about the Iraq invasion was called "the most important and courageous leak" in history by acclaimed 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. 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. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. ", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Keira Knightley's Birthday: Her 15 Best Movies Ranked, 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, Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun in "Official Secrets. Webdeport Guns husband, Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Muslim Kurdish Turk who was awaiting permanent leave to remain in the U.K. David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. Iraq All Over Again? Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? 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 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. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. 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. Instead, the American coalition was The British are quite British, you know. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? 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. Chile and Mexico and the other smaller countries were so outraged that they refused to even bring it to a vote. 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. Do you vote, do you analyze who you should vote for or do you just take it for granted? But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. 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. And he kept thinking, 'How am I going to portray this? 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. Provocation? 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 the Trump administration shreds norms of American governance like a Shih Tzu going to town on a roll of toilet paper, the last worst president is largely silent, busied with .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}canine portraiture and now the subject of nearly fond nostalgia. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. The other was Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and counsel at the Minneapolis bureau, who blew the whistle on FBI and other shortcomings We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. She also opposed the pending war. WebYou 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. We go to the canteen and we talk.. He is just way out there in a whole other realm. Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? Neither my friends nor my family knew what I did all day. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. I was 27 when it all began. ", 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. It should take the facts as they lead. According to the Guardian, This included a particular focus on the "swing nations" on the security council, Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, "as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters". That would be awkward. 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. Hundreds of thousands were killed. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Then the story went Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. 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. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. We may earn a commission from these links. Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. Gavin Hood: Its a great question. There it was spotted by Debs Paterson, director of the critically acclaimed Africa United, who met Katharine Gun last week with a view to making the film of her life. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. But she still was not uncomfortable with the other things we've talked about. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. 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. I believe that all of this should have been formally acknowledged as part of the history of the second Gulf War. "That really happened," Hood confirmed, though it did not go quite as it is shown in the film. 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. Maybe that was naive, but she didn't think that. Official Secrets is, for the most part, a historical account of these events in 2003, but as with nearly all films based on a true story, some things have been changed to aid the drama of the narrative. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. 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. 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. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. Unfortunately, perhaps, I have a conscience and my dishonesty gnawed at me persistently until the next day, when I confessed. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she ", As for her own story, she recognises that 10 years on it scarcely registers with the public. So that's who's running this show. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. He said she didnt even know what the job was. David Dayen: No problem. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new "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. 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". Would you risk your job? 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. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? 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 almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. And people do this in every country; they spy, they listen to what are the Chinese going to do when they get to this conference. And she said, Yep, I have no problem being asked to listen in, in instances where I might help prevent a terror attack. What this memo suggested was neither of those things it was a bridge too far for her. "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. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. 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. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. US firms waiting in the wings read to pump 'billions Parents' fury as schools STILL won't tell them if they are closed tomorrow as teacher strikes continue. Where do you draw the line? Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. You have the UN resolution, we're all doing this together to stop the genocide or something, or it's self-defense, we're going to be attacked, it's so clear we're going to be attacked that we have to take pre-emptive action. Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. The movie tells the story of Katharine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator with the U.K.'s GCHQ who, in 2003, leaked top secret documents to journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) that revealed that the American government's plans to apply pressure on members of the U.N. Security Counsel to pass its war resolution. Taking Vitamin D each day could cut your chances of getting dementia, study claims. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for Her story, which reveals what a country will do when it wants war and claims it does not, is told in an updated book and a major motion picture soon to be released--Official Secrets (Keira Knightly is Katharine). 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