It left me in an impossible predicament. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? 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. Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets. 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. The difficulties of translating Gun's story also made writing the climax of the film tricky. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. 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 He is just way out there in a whole other realm. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. 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. "I think part of the reason Gavin included it was just to kind of share that thought process.". As Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. We were to target such things as phone calls and emails from their homes as well as their places of work. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. 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. 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. WebKatharine Gun wasn't looking for attention or any type of notoriety when in 2003, while working as a British intelligence specialist, she leaked a top secret memo. 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. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. 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. 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. And she said, I dont work for the government. That was my first thoughtwhat do you mean you dont work for the government? Iran has been filmed loading missiles aboard some of its vessels. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. 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. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. 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. In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. 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? 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. 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? Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. Quality journalism. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. 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. This content is imported from youTube. 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. And those two are great actresses. 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. 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. "But that's partly my own fault because I haven't aggressively pursued a career. Unfortunately, perhaps, I have a conscience and my dishonesty gnawed at me persistently until the next day, when I confessed. So somehow in my rolodex, sometimes they sought me out. 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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. Our institutions matter. Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. [Ahmed is depicted in the film as strongly pro-war, resistant to running stories that conflict with his opinion.]. What do you think resonates? Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode 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. 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. She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. You work for the government. But again, I cant help but make some small jokes about these things. 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 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. 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. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. So, to find that it would be dramatised on the big screen was as wonderfully welcome as it was astonishing. I believe that all of this should have been formally acknowledged as part of the history of the second Gulf War. And Assange is the same. And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? 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. "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. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. 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. And that I think was the motivation. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. And that's quite a depressing place to find yourself in when you feel so strongly and passionately about something. 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. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. 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. WebKatharine Gun was a young specialist working for Britains Government Communications Headquarters when she exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United 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. 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. An insider with courage. That kind of propaganda has to stop. 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. KatharineGun did not stop the war,but was it all entirely in vain? 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. 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". Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. 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. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. Gavin Hood: After the spellcheck. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. 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. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. 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. 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 But Katharine only ever leaked this one memo. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. She failed. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. 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. You have no idea. I answered an advert in The Guardian newspaper for a translator. 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. He was actually gone for three days. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. 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. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. 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. "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. One by one, all those who received the email approximately 100 people were taken in for a grilling. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. 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. 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. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. If Keira Knightleys remarkable performance in Official Secrets can help change that, the film will truly have been worthwhile. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. WebWhen the film opens, Gun (Keira Knightley) is happily married to Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Turkish national living in the UK on a temporary visa, and passionately invested in 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. A manufactured provocation. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. The days and weeks dragged agonisingly by. So there is sometimes a thought in my head that says: What if Katharine hadn't leaked that memo? 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? That seems like the central undercurrent that is playing throughout the entire film. Progressive values. The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. "Still no regrets," she said. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? You might say I am biased. Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. We need a truth-sayer. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. 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? And I know whose throat it really sticks in, is [British journalist] Ed Vulliamy, who I adore. The truth is when she speaks to me, and she says, Gavin, we also go to lunch like everybody else in any other office. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.. What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. The comments below have been moderated in advance. 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.". She wasnt planning to get caught and then the dilemma was, My friends are all going to have their lives ruined.. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. David Dayen: One thing I think you depict really brilliantly in this story is what the climate was like at the time. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" The story went around the world and the leak electrified the international debate during the weeks of diplomatic deadlock. Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. We may earn a commission from these links. Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. I was 27 when it all began. The poor woman is based on a real person. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. 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. I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. According to the Guardian, 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? And I did the same for the journalists and the lawyers and everybody. They're more polite to their suspects. I didnt know the story and I googled her. And I think thats why you get this very honest, pure, deeply felt performance. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. 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. 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. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. Not the truth, but the war. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? And we keep that system alive. That's the memo. If we give over, if we start believing the fake news, as you say, we're all doomed, man. 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. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. Gun, a translator with the British intelligence service known as Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), received a document just before the war from an NSA manager, seeking British intelligence support in spying on members of the UN Security Council, to effectively blackmail them into voting for a second resolution that would make legal the invasion of Iraq. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. So, that's where we had to go for WMD. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. He runs a media charity. I did feel like, Well, I failed.. You see it most vividly in that scene where everybody stops calling Martin Bright, or they start canceling all the interviews. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. 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. 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. Gavin Hood: There is a kind of cognitive dissonance. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new 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? Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. The invasion was a huge blow, says Gun. None of the Government reports into the war acknowledged it, nor did the history books. Its Straussian, over the top and pretentious but basically amounts to this. Provocation? I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. WebAttempts were made by the authorities to deport her husband, who grew disillusioned with Britain. 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. Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. Or at least, she could have been. 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