Follow my lead, says whistleblower

[seemslikeadream]

Katharine Gun, who exposed the UN bugging affair, has founded a truth-telling squad

Martin Bright
Sunday September 12, 2004
The Observer

Katherine Gun, the former GCHQ employee who alerted the world to the United Nations bugging scandal in the run-up to the Iraq war, will launch a campaign this week to encourage whistleblowers to reveal evidence of government wrongdoing.
Gun was sacked from the top-secret government eavesdropping centre last year, after revealing details of a US 'dirty tricks' operation to win UN Security Council votes for a second resolution to authorise the use of force in Iraq. The government controversially dropped her prosecution under the Official Secrets Act in February after it was put under pressure to reveal the legal advice that took Britain to war.

Speaking at the TUC annual conference in Brighton, Gun will announce the establishment of the Truth-Telling Coalition, set up with a group of prominent international whistleblowers who have challenged their governments over the war on terror and the conflict in Iraq. She will be joined by TUC chairman Brendan Barber at an event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of civil rights campaigners Liberty.

Last week Gun travelled to Washington to lend her support to an appeal for the disclosure of a series of US classified documents. These include Red Cross reports on abuses at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq withheld by the US government, FBI reports on the organisation's knowledge of events leading up to the al-Qaeda suicide attacks on 11 September 2001, the unpublished sections of a UN report on weapons of mass destruction from before the war on Iraq, and the 28 pages on Saudi Arabia redacted from the joint House-Senate inquiry on intelligence activities prior to 9/11.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1302592,00.html

[colonel odis]

1. very, very good idea

there are clerks, mid-level administrative and management personnel, and all sorts of other govt workers who are in a position to tell the world what sort of crap is being covered up.

they need to stand up for their country, as well as for what's right.

here's hoping they'll do the right thing.

[MasonJar]

2. These people need legal protection and job security mandates.

I think the Republican Congress did the opposite and made some whistleblowing illegal. (not sure about latter)

[proud patriot]

3. I do hope , people start doing the right thing

It's time for the American people to get the
full story about the events affecting their lives .

[2Design]

4. the guy who took the pictures in iraq was the first to be jailed.

the other guy who told on it, is being sought for charges by our criminal BushCo...the BushCo 'frys' whistle blowers, Clarke, and all the others who have spoken out against Bush tactics

Someone needs to protect these people from the media as well as BushCo

[sattahipdeep]

5. 9-11 WAS A PREMEDITATED MURDER

THE 9/11 ATTACKS WERE THE RESULT OF DELIBERATE PLANNING AND
ORCHESTRATED EFFORTS BY IDENTIFIABLE LEADERS WITHIN THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT, AND THE ENERGY AND FINANCIAL SECTORS, TO SEE A
PEARL HARBOR-LIKE ATTACK WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THE AMERICAN
EMPIRE WITH A PRETEXT FOR WAR, INVASION AND THE SEQUENTIAL
CONFISCATION OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESERVES, OR THE KEY
TRANSPORTATION ROUTES THROUGH WHICH THEY PASS. 9-11 WAS A
PREMEDITATED MURDER AND IN MY BOOK, AND HERE TONIGHT, I WILL
NAME SOME OF THE SUSPECTS WHO COMMITTED THE CRIME. IN MY
BOOK I WILL SHOW YOU OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF THEIR GUILT
WHICH I WOULD BE PROUD AND CONFIDENT TO PLACE EITHER BEFORE
A DISTRICT ATTORNEY OR A JURY.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/

[LTRS]

6. Hate to say it, but....

as if it really matters. Sibel Edmonds, Paul O'Neill, John Dilulio, Rand Beers, Greg Theilman, Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson.... they ALL blew whistles, and what happened? Not a damn thing. The press in this country -- the same press who hounded the Clinton admn over total hogwash for 8 yrs -- is corrupt. If they do expose the stories they are right there moments later allowing smears to be made against the same people without any evidence whatsoever to back up the smear.

[arikara]

9. Think positive

There will come a time soon when there is a critical mass and it just can't be swept under the carpet any longer.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

7. Gun is truly a courageous person who reaffirms my faith in humanity

The world needs more people like Gun...people with the courage to do what is right.

JB

[struggle4progress]

8. kick for whistle-blowers

:kick: