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Consortium News
September 1, 2017
Included among those in between are other patriots: like Katharine Gun, U.K. Ambassador Craig Murray, Col. Larry Wilkerson, Julian Assange, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Fingar, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Bill Binney. [To learn more about previous honorees, as well as otherÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 13, 2017
Katharine Gun, a former translator for the monitoring agency who leaked details of an operation to bug United Nations offices before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has spoken out following the publication of Law Commission plans suggesting that maximum jail terms for those leaking information should riseÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 8, 2016
We now know more about the shameful behaviour that led to the Iraq war. But with my experience at GCHQ, I could have helped the inquiry. Katharine Gun. 'I confessed to the leak and was arrested on suspicion of the breach of section 1 of the Official Secrets Act.' Katharine Gun outside Bow StreetÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2016
Before Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Edward Snowden, the intelligence whistleblower, there was Katharine Gun. Not so many people remember the unassuming British woman who once risked it all to take a stand against the US war machine, but that is about to change. The former GCHQÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 29, 2016
In the latest film to cover the activities of whistleblowers and the journalists who report their revelations, Official Secrets will tell the story of Katharine Gun, an officer at the Cheltenham-based government eavesdropping agency. She leaked an email that contained a request by America's NSA to illegally bugÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
November 29, 2014
"I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. ... I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people's voice. ... It could derail the entire process for war." So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about information she leaked shortly before the invasion of Iraq. It wasn'tÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
November 20, 2014
Daniel Ellsberg, who himself leaked the Pentagon Papers, has called Katharine Gun's leak “the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen. … No one else — including myself — has ever done what Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.
Huffington Post (blog)
September 25, 2008
Of course Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience, as long as it didn't interfere with her work at a British intelligence agency. To the authorities, practically speaking, a conscience was apt to be less tangible than a pixel on a computer screen. But suddenly — one routine morning, while she wasÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 27, 2004
A GCHQ translator sacked for revealing a secret e-mail has been cleared of a charge under the Official Secrets Act. Katharine Gun, 29, from Cheltenham, claimed the e-mail was from US spies asking British officers to tap phones of nations voting on war against Iraq. She walked free on Wednesday whenÃÂ ...
Consortium News
September 1, 2017
Included among those in between are other patriots: like Katharine Gun, U.K. Ambassador Craig Murray, Col. Larry Wilkerson, Julian Assange, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Fingar, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Bill Binney. [To learn more about previous honorees, as well as other ...
The Times
February 15, 2017
A former GCHQ whistleblower, Katharine Gun, who leaked details of plans to bug UN offices in the run-up to the Iraq war, told The Guardian: “The Official Secrets Act 1989 may need reforming for the digital era, but I would argue that at its heart there should be protection for whistleblowers.” The present law ...
The Guardian
February 13, 2017
Katharine Gun, a former translator for the monitoring agency who leaked details of an operation to bug United Nations offices before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has spoken out following the publication of Law Commission plans suggesting that maximum jail terms for those leaking information should rise ...
The Guardian
July 8, 2016
We now know more about the shameful behaviour that led to the Iraq war. But with my experience at GCHQ, I could have helped the inquiry. Katharine Gun. 'I confessed to the leak and was arrested on suspicion of the breach of section 1 of the Official Secrets Act.' Katharine Gun outside Bow Street ...
The Guardian
January 30, 2016
Before Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Edward Snowden, the intelligence whistleblower, there was Katharine Gun. Not so many people remember the unassuming British woman who once risked it all to take a stand against the US war machine, but that is about to change. The former GCHQÂ ...
The Guardian
January 29, 2016
In the latest film to cover the activities of whistleblowers and the journalists who report their revelations, Official Secrets will tell the story of Katharine Gun, an officer at the Cheltenham-based government eavesdropping agency. She leaked an email that contained a request by America's NSA to illegally bug ...
Truth-Out
November 21, 2014
"I felt it was explosive, it really made me angry when I read it. ... I genuinely hoped that the information would strengthen the people's voice. ... It could derail the entire process for war." So said Katharine Gun recently when asked about information she leaked shortly before the invasion of Iraq. It wasn't ...
Huffington Post (blog)
September 25, 2008
Of course Katharine Gun was free to have a conscience, as long as it didn't interfere with her work at a British intelligence agency. To the authorities, practically speaking, a conscience was apt to be less tangible than a pixel on a computer screen. But suddenly — one routine morning, while she was ...
BBC News
September 16, 2004
There is something about Katharine Gun that makes her seem an unlikely candidate for whistleblowing. And yet this rather shy 30-year-old leaked details of an alleged plot to bug UN delegates before the Iraq war and was sacked from her job as a translator at GCHQ.
BBC News
February 27, 2004
A GCHQ translator sacked for revealing a secret e-mail has been cleared of a charge under the Official Secrets Act. Katharine Gun, 29, from Cheltenham, claimed the e-mail was from US spies asking British officers to tap phones of nations voting on war against Iraq. She walked free on Wednesday when ...
The Guardian
February 13, 2017
Katharine Gun, a former translator for the monitoring agency who leaked details of an operation to bug United Nations offices before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has spoken out following the publication of Law Commission plans suggesting that maximum ...
Middle East Online
September 28, 2016
Coleen Rowley (FBI),Katharine Gun (UK-GCHQ), Sibel Edmonds (FBI),Amb. Craig Murray (UK Foreign Office),Frank Grevil (Major, Danish Military Intelligence)**, Sam Provance (Sgt.
Consortium News
September 26, 2016
Coleen Rowley (FBI), Katharine Gun (UK-GCHQ), Sibel Edmonds (FBI), Amb. Craig Murray (UK Foreign Office), Frank Grevil (Major, Danish Military Intelligence)**, Sam Provance (Sgt.
Delphos Herald
August 19, 2016
Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve will again provide both archery and gun hunting opportunities. The Lake Katharine archery hunt will offer hunters 2-week blocks of time to hunt.
Antiwar.com
July 15, 2016
News reports about the recently released 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks are typically dismissive: this is nothing new, it's just circumstantial evidence, and there's no "smoking gun.
Sputnik International
July 12, 2016
Particularly glaring is that there is no mention of Katharine Gun in the 2.6 million-word report. She exposed US and UK spying against United Nations Security Council members prior to the invasion," Husseini noted.
Middle East Monitor
July 9, 2016
The woman who handed me the document - "Isobel" - and her colleague Katharine Gun, a 29-year-old Mandarin translator who also worked at GCHQ in Cheltenham, were arrested.
The Guardian
July 8, 2016
We now know more about the shameful behaviour that led to the Iraq war. But with my experience at GCHQ, I could have helped the inquiry.
Hollywood Reporter
June 16, 2016
... she stars opposite Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins and Paul Bettany and started production in May in the U.K. Dormer will play British intelligence officer Katharine Gun, who is the subject of the nonfiction book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War ...
The National
June 10, 2016
In 2003, GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun leaked details of a UK-US plot to bug United Nations delegates' discussions to help win crucial votes for the bloody war in Iraq.
Truth-Out
May 8, 2016
As for signals intelligence, no fewer than four Sam Adams whistleblower awardees have come from NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ: the UK's Katharine Gun (2003), and three from NSA itself -- Thomas Drake (2011), Edward Snowden (2013), andÃÂ ...
Truthdig
May 8, 2016
As for signals intelligence, no fewer than four Sam Adams whistleblower awardees have come from NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ: the UK's Katharine Gun (2003), and three from NSA itself - Thomas Drake (2011), Edward Snowden (2013), andÃÂ ...
Antiwar.com
May 5, 2016
As for signals intelligence, no fewer than four Sam Adams whistleblower awardees have come from NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ: the UK's Katharine Gun (2003), and three from NSA itself - Thomas Drake (2011), Edward Snowden (2013), andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 12, 2016
Barack Obama today attempted to heal a rift between the technology community and the government, saying the two sides must engage constructively to build technologies that balance individual privacy with the government's obligation to keep people safe.
WWD
February 25, 2016
She is also set to star in "Official Secrets," based on the true story of Katharine Gun, a young British intelligence officer who was arrested for leaking memos in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Hollywood Reporter
February 15, 2016
With a screenplay by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, Official Secrets is based on the book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion. Set in 2003 in the months before the Iraq War, the plot sees a ...
Gala.de
February 14, 2016
Spannender Thriller in Top-Besetzung. Der Film basiert auf dem Buch "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion" von Marcia und Thomas Mitchell. Die Geschichte spielt im Jahr 2003, kurz vor AusbruchÃÂ ...
Hollywood Reporter
February 13, 2016
The screenplay by Sara and Gregory Bernstein is based on the book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion.
Variety
February 13, 2016
Chadwick will direct from a screenplay by Sara and Gregory Bernstein based on the book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion." The Solution Entertainment Group's Lisa Wilson and Myles NestelÃÂ ...
Variety
February 12, 2016
Justin Chadwick will direct from a screenplay by Sara and Gregory Bernstein based on the book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion." The Solution Entertainment Group's Lisa Wilson and MylesÃÂ ...
Palatinate
February 11, 2016
The story of a former Durham University student and her controversial decision to leak confidential government information to the press is set to be made into a film later this year.
Kikapress
February 4, 2016
I cinque attori di assoluto livello internazionale reciteranno nel film basato sul libro di Marcia Mitchell, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun and The Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion, che racconta la storia di Katharine Gun ...
Gloucester Citizen
February 2, 2016
Now Hollywood is to make a film about Katharine Gun, who worked at GCHQ in Cheltenham as a Chinese linguist in the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and who was taken to court under the Official Secrets Act.
The Guardian
January 30, 2016
Before Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Edward Snowden, the intelligence whistleblower, there was Katharine Gun. Not so many people remember the unassuming British woman who once risked it all to take a stand against the US war machine,ÃÂ ...
BeritagarID
January 29, 2016
Dua aktor kawakan Harrison Ford dan Anthony Hopkins akan beradu akting di film Official Secrets. Seperti diwartakan Hollywood Reporter (28/1/2016), film yang berdasarkan kisah nyata ini akan menceritakan Katharine Gun (Natalie Dormer) seorangÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 29, 2016
In the latest film to cover the activities of whistleblowers and the journalists who report their revelations, Official Secrets will tell the story of Katharine Gun, an officer at the Cheltenham-based government eavesdropping agency. She leaked an ...
ComingSoon.net
January 28, 2016
In the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Katharine Gun (Dormer), a young British intelligence officer, reveals a secret illegal NSA spy operation against the UN Security Council designed to ensure passage of a resolution for war to Martin Bright ...
Antiwar.com
December 6, 2015
The San Bernardino massacre, in which a seemingly harmless county worker and his wife murdered 14 people in cold blood and wounded 21 others, marks a new phase in the cycle of war and repression that characterizes the post-9/11 era.
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