ministers were told to destroy key evidence on eve of conflict which showed Iraq War was ILLEGAL

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12. That's why they dropped the case against Katherine Gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun

Katharine Teresa Gun (née Harwood, born 1974) is a British[1] former translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she became publicly known for leaking top-secret information to the press concerning illegal activities by the United States of America in their push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Some of these activities include the US National Security Agency's eavesdropping operation on countries tasked with passing a second United Nations resolution on the invasion of Iraq.[2]

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The case came to court on 25 February 2004. Within half an hour, the case was dropped because the prosecution declined to offer evidence. The reasons for the prosecution dropping the case are unclear. The day before the trial, Gun's defence team had asked the government for any records of advice about the legality of the war that it had received during the run-up to the war. A full trial might have exposed any such documents to public scrutiny as the defence were expected to argue that trying to stop an illegal act (that of an illegal war of aggression) trumped Gun's obligations under the Official Secrets Act 1989. Speculation was rife in the media that the prosecution service had bowed to political pressure to drop the case so that any such documents would remain secret. However, a Government spokesman said that the decision to drop the case had been made before the defence's demands had been submitted. (The Guardian newspaper had reported plans to drop the case the previous week.[citation needed]) On the day of the court case, Gun was quoted as saying:

I'm just baffled that in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to resolve issues.

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