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| Brit claims U.S. Spy agency
SPYING! |
| 2004-02-20 |
| The prosecution is preparing to abandon the case against a former GCHQ employee charged with leaking information about a "dirty tricks" spying operation before the invasion of Iraq, the Guardian has learned. (we so bad) Katharine Gun, 29, is due to appear at the Old Bailey next week where she has said she will plead not guilty to breaking the Official Secrets Act. (plead guilty of being a lefty) She has said her alleged disclosures exposed serious wrongdoing by the US and could have helped to prevent the deaths of Iraqis and British forces in an "illegal war". Sources familiar with the case last night strongly indicated that the prosecution will ask the court to drop the case against her at a pre-trial hearing at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. (Don’t drop it hang her!) Ms Gun, a translator at GCHQ, was arrested in March but not charged until eight months later. The long delay suggests that even then there was a fierce debate in government and GCHQ circles about the advisability of a secrets trial against an employee who said she acted out of conscience over an issue which divided the country. The NSA told GCHQ that the particular targets of an eavesdropping "surge" were the delegates from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan - the six crucial "swing votes" on the security council. A memo sent by Frank Koza, a senior NSA official, said the information from the eavesdropping would be used against the key UN delegations. (I hope so!) In a statement when she was charged, Ms Gun said: "Any disclosures that may have been made were justified because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government which attempted to subvert our own security services. Secondly, they could have helped prevent wide scale death and casualties amongst ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war." (Spying is legal here, as long as we are doing it) Senior Mexican and Chilean diplomats at the UN have since claimed their missions were spied on. (really?) High-profile For those that don’t already know it, the U.S. spies on other countries (surprise meter 0.0). Not some Countries, ALL COUNTRIES. Ms. Gun ‘revelation’ that the U.S. was spying on UN members could only come from a elitist linguist such as herself. Note: Every linguist (Military or Civilian) I ever working with were the MOST arrogant people I have ever met. Also they do one hell of a job under some very difficult circumstances. Ms. Gun did not reveal anything that was already common knowledge to anyone who can read. She sounds like some left wing elitist that thought she was outing the great Satan. Sorry honey, James Bamford had a really good book called the ‘Puzzle Palace’ that outlines an intelligence effort by the U.S. So the U.S. was targeting countries on the UN Security Council during a critical time in history? If they weren’t I would want George Tenet's head on a platter! The UK should close the doors, try this whore, and throw her in the dungeon! She doesn’t deserve the publicity she is getting. |
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| #4 I can neither confirm nor deny the accuracy of any of the aforementioned data, but suffice to say this person took an oath when she got her clearance. She knew the consequences of breaking that oath, and breaking the the law. Put her away for the prescribed sentence. Period. You dont give away what you believe to be sensitive methods and sources over a political snit. If it means that much, you do the honorable thing, resign your position and ask to be debriefed and give up your clearance. The ONE thing you do not do is spew info that could hurt other things. From the Walkers to Pollard to the FBI scum to this woman,I have very low tolerance to traitors, and even less sympathy. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-2-20 11:28:25 PM |
| #3 Secondly, they could have helped prevent wide scale death and casualties amongst ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war." For someone who worked in Intelligence, she doesn't seem smart enough to read the newspapers right after the liberation: very few UK forces died, and damned few civilians. That sorta just slipped past her intelligent nose, I guess. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-20 3:21:19 PM |
| #2 Great wahrks! A spy agency spying! Oh hold me, Lalen! File this as a Classic. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-2-20 10:13:58 AM |
| #1 High-profile figures in the US who have signed a statement backing Ms Gun’s case include actor Sean Penn, Idiot. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, Thuggish extortionist, racist and antisemite. president of the Newspaper Guild Linda Foley, Who? All I can get from this is that she's the union and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers containing evidence of US involvement in Vietnam in 1971. Traitor. Nice group she's got supporting her. I'm surprised Mumia and Sami al'Arian haven't chimed in, too. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-20 8:50:35 AM |