By Marcia Mitchell posted on May 20, 2019 Tony needs this resolution.” Tony Blair’s problem was Admiral (Michael) Boyce, who was the head of the British armed forces was refusing to cross into Iraq from Kuwait without a clear, written document from the Attorney General saying that the war was legal and in accordance with international law, because he didn’t want his soldiers, his officers, and himself to risk being charged with a war crime if the war was illegal. The film may is certainly a thriller even though it plays like a drama during some points. Will your next film also be in the political vein or do you think you will do other fantasy or sci-fi films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine or Ender’s Game? News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the “crime” of telling the truth. Found insideThis book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. It is available here. He Googled Gun and spent hours researching this nearly forgotten chapter of the Iraq War’s checkered history on the Internet. “Truth always matters at the end of the day.”. Official Secrets, which dramatises the case of GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, takes place immediately before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Katharine Gun. That gives everyone legal cover. In her trial, all charges were dropped by the Prosecution. I spent about three weeks in England just talking to all the key players, and then I thought there really is an interesting story here. But then something happened that even Gun couldn’t have expected, which is depicted in the film. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise is a testament to the human spirit as it triumphs over evil. This is a 9/11 book like no other. As Hood explains it, while the majority of the American public supported President George W. Bush’s plan to declare war on Iraq in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks as well as his Administration’s contention that Hussein had hidden WMDs, the Brits, with the exception of Prime Minister Tony Blair and his supporters, weren’t so convinced. She’s not the hero in the conventional sense. Found insideNadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as government based on an unmediated relationship between the leader and those defined as the “good” or “right” people. So, there were challenges in terms of the conventional narrative structure. Katharine Gun is a former linguist/analyst at GCHQ—the British government’s principal signals intelligence agency. Jude Dry. ", At the film's premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Gun told the Press Association that it was "great that it's been 16 years after the event, because I can finally talk about it without breaking down or having stress and strain about it. (Photo by Jim Spellman/Getty Images), unjust grounds for declaring war on Iraq in Gavin Hood's 'Official Secrets. What drew me to the film was the fact that Katharine Gun, especially when I met her, wasn’t some high-ranking political figure or superstar of the intelligence world, she was actually quite ordinary. Martin Bright, the Observer's investigative reporter who broke the news of Gun's leaked memo, is played in the film by Matt Smith. That’s why Ben (Fiennes) jumps in with that line towards the end, “Surely, my client has the right to know, indeed the public has the right to know why this case is being dropped.” Hopefully, that prompts the question so that it can go further. The personal drama gets pretty intense—among other factors involved is that Katharine’s husband is a Kurdish Iraqi that the government threatens with deportation … Well, her decision could jeopardize her job. Dirty Tricks to Win Vote on Iraq War, Download an audio file of a speech made by Ms. ', Kehlani Previews Upcoming Album ‘Blue Water Road’ With Lead Single ‘Altar’, J Balvin Reintroduces Himself With ‘Jose’ Album, Chlöe’s Long-Awaited Solo Debut ‘Have Mercy’ Is Here, Lady Gaga Invites Charli XCX, Arca, and More Music Stars Into Her World on ‘Dawn of Chromatica’ Remix Album, JoJo Previews Upcoming EP With New Single ‘Worst (I Assume)’, TOKiMONSTA Imagines a New World For Women in Electronic Music, Lizzo and Cardi B Address ‘Rumors’ In New Music Video, The Weeknd Returns With Dance Floor-Ready ‘Take My Breath’. A homogenous group with them. ... largely thanks to a subplot involving Gun’s husband, an immigrant who is facing deportation whose situation is worsened by his wife’s actions. 1911: Lois Weber was the first American female to direct a full-length film. Laurent Dubois weaves the stories of slaves, free people of African descent, wealthy whites and French administrators into an unforgettable tale of insurrection, war, heroism and victory. Gun. Hood: I’m working on something now but I’m terrified of saying it will happen because it may not. She now lives with him and their young daughter in Turkey. Courtesy of IFC Films In the past, you’ve taken on roles in many period films — but Official Secrets is set not that long ago, in 2003. I told her we just have to find the emotional truth of Katharine. It’s a decision that could get her husband deported. The film’s storyline is based on the book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion (a mouthful and very descriptive title!) 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” by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell. Immediately fired, she was taken into custody and charged with revealing Official Secrets (which also is the title of the film, adapted from a 2008 book about the incident called The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion). Hood: I’m always very wary of grandstanding and seemingly like I have some easy answer to this. In the government’s eyes, Katherine became the equivalent of a spy spilling classified intel to the world. Explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills. Your bracket or add another additional argument and move in to. The other, which is why the WMD became so important, is the good old-fashioned self-defense argument. Courtesy of IFC Films In the past, you’ve taken on roles in many period films — but Official Secrets is set not that long ago, in 2003. He then flew to Britain from the U.S., where he has lived for a couple of decades since leaving his native South Africa, to meet with the unassuming Gun, the journalists who broke the story and others. What the film I hope does is deliver these material facts accurately with believable performances from Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith. While there, Gun leaked a confidential United States National Security Agency email in 2003, exposing illegal activities to the Observer - giving the paper a massive scoop. Spying Case, Bush and Blair Governments Face Scrutiny, Scandal on Pre-War U.N. In her trial, all charges were dropped by the Prosecution. Gun in April 2004 at a hearing on the Iraq war in the Danish Parliament building. Spying Case, Bush and Blair Governments Face Scrutiny” (2/25/04), “Scandal on Pre-War U.N. I worked for the new Department of Health making educational videos on the HIV/AIDS crisis. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. August 29, 2019. There are two ways war is legal in terms of international law: one is a UN resolution by the Security Council to collectively take action against genocide or a rogue regime. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. Katharine 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. Katharine Gun is the Most Important Whistleblower You've Never Heard of. Official Secrets: Katharine Gun's husband Yasar is a Kurdish refugee working in a coffee shop and trying to get permanent residency in the UK. As of 2018 Katharine Gun is 43 years years old. Gun, www.progressiveportal.org/updates/global/mideast/kgun.html, Internships and Volunteer Positions Available, Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message, Timeline: How DNC Manipulated 2016 Presidential Race, Francis A. Boyle in Defense of Kings Bay Plowshare 7 Activists, Affidavit by Daniel Ellsberg for Plowshare Activists Being Allowed a Defense of Necessity, A Long List of Democratic Candidates Requires a Large Catalog of Their Funders, NATO and US Foreign Policy: Dangers Ahead, Media Advisory: “NATO and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dangers Ahead”, Statement by Floyd Abrams in response to Attorney General nominee William Barr’s remarks on the First Amendment. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the “crime” of telling the truth. Another key conversation was regarding Gun's husband Yasar, who was almost deported during the aftermath of the leak but saved at the eleventh hour. Woodhouse does a highly effective job of conveying the importance of attending to children's voices and agency. This book is likely to attract public attention and spur public debate. She was put on trial in 2004, after her Kurdish, asylum-seeking husband was threatened with deportation. For Hood, it was vital to feature this to show the genuine love between Katharine and Yasar, rocked after the leak. It can be downloaded free at Adobe’s website. In piecing together the fragments left behind – from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance – Madeleine Bunting has brought this ... This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. Other sorts of threats ensued, including the possibility that Gun’s Turkish-born husband (Adam Bakri) would be deported on bogus charges. Hood: Yes. Married to a Muslim immigrant, Yasar (Adam Bakri), who could be deported because of her actions, Gun nonetheless confesses to the crime to save her co-workers from being investigated. Not only was Gun detained but her husband, a Turkish expatriate, was threatened with deportation, even though he was legally living in the UK and had nothing to do with his wife’s actions. Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. Oblivion is an afterthought? I’m used to being interviewed; I’m not used to being the one interviewing someone else, trying to make sense of everything. One of the flicks coming to our cinemas, if it isn’t there already, is Official Secrets, the film about whistleblower Katharine Gun’s attempt to prevent Blair’s illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq by leaking government emails about it.The I printed a review of it by Demetrios Matheou in last Friday’s edition for the 18th October 2019. . She felt she needed to get the emotional truth right. She headed towards the base. When Katharine confesses to spare her co-workers from grueling interrogations, she is swiftly arrested. With this and Eye in the Sky, your protagonist has to deal with the question of what’s morally right versus their duty to their government and job. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. For Hood, it was vital to feature this to show the genuine love between Katharine and Yasar, rocked after the leak. Then, when Nelson Mandela was released, I was free to go back. I also interviewed Martin Bright (Matt Smith), Peter Beaumont (Matthew Goode), and the other journalists, and then the formidable Ben Emmerson (Gun’s attorney, played by Ralph Fiennes), which was quite a meeting. Set in 2003, the film focuses on Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), who is employed as a Mandarin translator by the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), a British intelligence agency, during a time when US and British intelligence conspired to influence a UN vote to ratify an invasion of Iraq. After the information hit the front pages of newspapers, Gun - then aged 27 - confessed and was subsequently arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act. In her trial, all charges were dropped by the Prosecution. ), Progressive Portal has made it easy to take Internet action in solidarity with Katharine Gun:www.progressiveportal.org/updates/global/mideast/kgun.html. This book reviews the history of the United States-Liberia relations from the early 1820s to 2015, with particular attention paid to the role of the US armed forces. Film review - Official Secrets. Letters of support for Katharine Gun can now be sent to: kthgun@yahoo.co.uk. Found insideChronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. According to the Guardian, she has been living with her husband and their 13-year-old daughter in Turkey for over 9 years.. Film ‘Official Secrets’ is the Tip of a Mammoth Iceberg. Katharine Gun was arrested and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. (You will need Windows Media to listen to this speech. 15 Years Later: The Whistleblower Who Almost Blocked the Iraq War, panel discussion with Katharine Gun and other whistleblowers by ExposeFacts, 10 Years Ago: ‘The Most Important Leak’ Aimed at Stopping the Iraq War, With Charges Dropped in U.N. The protagonist, Katharine Gun, is developed in a way that is extremely sympathetic. Did Keira say why she wanted to play this role? Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to making these kinds of films. Found inside – Page 1The 2015 edition of the Global Burden of Armed Violence provides a wealth of data relevant to security and the post-2015 sustainable development framework. Spying on UN Delegates: Fallout” (3/4/03), “Top Secret Document Reveals U.S. Hood, who previously directed 2015’s Eye in the Sky, the acclaimed cautionary thriller starring Oscar winner Helen Mirren that examined the moral implications of conducting a high-tech war, was intrigued with this little-known real life David vs. Goliath tale. The Times describes Keira Knightley's new film as a "whistleblower drama about dubious intelligence operations on the eve of the 2003 Iraq war". In England, especially, it has and it will. Found insideThe world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined' Piaf. More background from Liberty, the British civil liberties group defending Katharine. Found insideIn prose that is both fearless and slyly humorous, My Time Among the Whites examines the sometimes hopeful, sometimes deeply flawed ways in which many Americans have learned to adapt, exist, and—in the face of all signals saying ... Background on the Gun case is provided below: “Iraq War Lies Exposed by Official Secrets Heroine Influenced by Author” (9/9/19), “Official Secrets Highlights Lies of Iraq War” (7/18/19). She was charged with leaking an embarrassing U.S. intelligence memo indicating that the U.S. had mounted a spying “surge” against U.N. delegations in early 2003 in an effort to win approval of the Iraq war resolution. They focus on the social context of reentry and look at the stories returning prisoners tell, including such key issues as when they choose to reveal (or not) their criminal histories. Found insideBrit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga Spying by U.S. Now Mushrooming in Mexico and Chile, New Support for British Whistleblower Katharine Gun, Prominent Americans Support British Whistleblower, Former British Cabinet Minister Decries Prosecution of Whistleblower, Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest in U.S. View our online Press Pack. I am a formally trained reporter who spent years covering hard news for various print and television news outlets before discovering Hollywood nearly two decades ago. August 30, 2019, 12:11 PM ... demonstrated by her gripes at the news while her husband tries to watch football, Katharine decides to take action. Tony Blair tried to write me - and the wicked act I exposed - out of history. It does have a repressive Official Secrets Act, under which she was being prosecuted by the Blair government. Did you think about expanding the film to cover that part of the story? Found insidePresents documents and essays arguing that the Iraqi government is not the threat the United Staes claims and that the United States rejected offers of peaceful solutions to terrorism, and offers other reasons to avoid war. Gavin Hood directs Official Secrets, but for the audience it is clearly Keira Knightley’s film, and she performs excellently, showing growing versatility. Gun (I expect his name is pronounced "goon") is an ethnic Turk who married Mrs. The enemy is the aggressor. Found insideOriginally published in 1973, and then in an expanded edition in 1987, this third edition contains a new chapter and preface that both address the renewed debate on policy and drug legislation from the end of the Reagan administration to ... Official Secrets is based on the actions of Brit Katharine Gun, who revealed that America had been eavesdropping on diplomats from other countries. An examination of how sexual fantasy and pornography are policed in contemporary American culture. ldquo;Laura Kipnis is the rarest of authors. God forbid if anyone had said, “This isn’t very good and it doesn’t represent us.” We would have been dead. The top secret memo proved that the UK and US governments were in collusion over spying on countries that were wavering in their support for the war. Gavin Hood: I spent five days with her, just talking for five or six hours each day, writing notes, finding myself like a journalist, which was a new thing for me. Knightley stars as the whistle-blower Katharine Gun who leaked a crucial memo to the press in the lead to the Iraq War ... which includes the threat of deportation for her Muslim husband, Yasar. Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun in 'Official Secrets.' She was put on trial in 2004, after her Kurdish, asylum-seeking husband was threatened with deportation. Another key conversation was regarding Gun’s husband Yasar, who was almost deported during the aftermath of the leak but saved at the eleventh hour. However a person’s true character is revealed when it’s not so easy. “Chilcot Report Avoids Smoking Gun” (7/6/16), “10 Years Ago: ‘The Most Important Leak’ Aimed at Stopping the Iraq War” 4/4/13, “With Charges Dropped in U.N. By Marcia Mitchell posted on May 20, 2019 Spying on U.N. Scandal, Top Secret Document Reveals U.S. Found insideTracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. She said she wanted to be as plain Keira as she could, so that nothing is drawn to her wardrobe or her hair and makeup. But after receiving the email blast at the spy agency which had originated at the NSA, she knew morally she couldn’t keep quiet, so she snuck a copy of it out of the building and delivered to an activist friend who reached out to a contact at a British newspaper. He's nearly deported two-thirds of the way through the film, seemingly to punish Katharine for leaking a memo embarrassing to the Bush and Blair governments. The leaked memo was big news in parts of the world. "There were a number of whistleblowers who came forward and they now form a kind of network of trust so we are in a different position to where we were before, where Katharine was incredibly isolated. Thank God, we had Ralph Fiennes to take the baton in the third act. Toy ray gun lamp. I was drafted at 17 and I lost a close friend in the war in Angola. A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist. Hit the Target The story of the Mighty Eighth is told through these men, whose careers paralleled the early history of aviation? and who helped? to revolutionize airborne warfare and win World War II. INCLUDES PHOTOS. Hood: As a writer, you don’t consciously look something and go, “Aha! 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Found insideHONG Yunshin analyzes Japanese military “comfort stations” in the Okinawan war (1945), and their revival during the US occupation (1945–72), through Okinawan eyes. I felt the push and pull of that with the government in complete denial about HIV as a virus. The other question that begs a response on the other end involves Lord (Peter) Goldsmith, who authorized the prosecution of Katharine Gun as required by the Official Secrets Act. Additionally, they threaten her Kurdish husband, Yasar (Adam Bakri), with deportation. 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. That made me very angry and I left for America in 1989. (You will need Acrobat to view this PDF file. Keira Knightley plays a British intelligence analyst who turns whistleblower for what she views as ... [+] unjust grounds for declaring war on Iraq in Gavin Hood's 'Official Secrets.'. For other inquiries, Contact Us. To paraphrase Dean Martin, “How lucky can one girl get?”, © 2021 Forbes Media LLC. Crossing the Rubicon examines how such a conspiracy was possible through an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism—without which 9/11 cannot be understood. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Official Secrets tells the incredible true story behind the bravery of Katharine Gun and why she leaked a memo in hopes of averting an illegal war.. "Tells the story of a young British secret service officer, Katharine Gun, and her courageous decision to expose an illegal US-UK operation -- a covert plot to influence the UN vote that would have authorized the Iraq invasion"--P. [4] of ... This book has the potential to be a pioneering volume, moving beyond other accounts of how race influences mass politics in the contemporary era. If you haven’t heard of Katharine Gun, don’t worry, neither had filmmaker Gavin Hood when his producer pitched him on the idea of making their next film about the British government whistleblower. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a ... Hood’s Official Secrets stars two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley as Gun, alongside fellow two-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes, The Crown's Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans and Jeremy Northam. So, I was very lucky to work very closely with everyone involved. She violated the terms of the Official Secrets Act, which is a pretty important law for GCHQ employees. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. The actress plays the real-life whistleblower Katharine Gun in this solid political drama. Are you attracted to those themes? Official Secrets is based on the actions of Brit Katharine Gun, who revealed that America had been eavesdropping on diplomats from other countries. Daemon thread is extremely uninspiring. It does have political and social overtones but it is a slightly futuristic thriller, and hopefully have audiences talk about afterwards like they did after viewing Eye in the Sky. This comic is adorable! The government, playing hardball, keeps her in a state of uncertainty for months about whether she is going to be charged. The Case Against Mary Katherine Higdon 43:11. 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