Kofi bug whistleblower founds truth-telling squad

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Follow my lead, says whistleblower

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reports on the organisation's knowledge of events leading up to the al-Qaeda suicide attacks on 11 September 2001, the unpublished sections of a UN report on weapons of mass destruction from before the war on Iraq, and the 28 pages on Saudi Arabia redacted from the joint House-Senate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

[Spazito]

1. That is great news!

Thanks for the link.

[leesa]

2. Bless this woman. Anyone know of a way to financially support this effort?

I didn't see any contact info for the group in the article.

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