Wednesday, February 25, 2004

WHISTLE IN THE WIND

The Crown Prosecution Service has, at the last moment, dropped charges against intelligence officer and whistleblower Katherine Gun. As a worker at the Government Communication Headquarters (aka the Donut), Gun saw an e-mail from a US contact last year which was effectively asking the UK to help spy on diplomats from swing vote countries on the UN Security Council in an effort to get sanction for the invasion of Iraq.

Gun violated the Official Secrets Act by leaking the e-mail. She admitted this, but claimed it was because the e-mail was evidence of illegal activities by the US (and possibly the UK) secret services.

Why has the government decided to spike this case? Is it because they were afraid what might come out in the trial. Was it because of the threat that the full version of the Attorney General's assessment of the legal case for war?

We will probably not know in our lifetimes. The documents will probably be kept back for a 50 year review.

But, we can have a go at getting the government to come clean. Go to the Our World Our Say site for more.

:: Posted by pete @ 21:56