What people tend to forget is that the majority of the British people supported the Iraq War and, just two years later in 2005, Blair was re-elected.
There's a film to be made about her, starring Natalie Dormer.
Writing inThe Guardian about the Chilcot report on Tony Blair’s decision to be George W. Bush’s poodle in the invasion and occupation of Iraq,whistleblower Katherine Gun zeroes in on some questions that still remain for her:
Back in early 2003, Tony Blair was keen to secure UN backing for a resolution that would authorise the use of force against Iraq. I was a linguist and analyst at GCHQ when, on 31 Jan 2003, I, along with dozens of others in GCHQ, received an email from a senior official at the National Security Agency. It said the agency was “mounting a surge particularly directed at the UN security council (UNSC) members”, and that it wanted “the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises”.
In other words, the US planned to use intercepted communications of the security council delegates. [...]
I was furious when I read that email and leaked it. Soon afterwards, when the Observer ran a front-page story: “US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war”, I confessed to the leak and was arrested on suspicion of the breach of section 1 of the Official Secrets Act. I pleaded not guilty and, assisted by Liberty and Ben Emmerson QC, offered a defence of necessity – in other words, a breach of the law in order to prevent imminent loss of human life. This defence had not and, to my knowledge, has still not, been tested in a court of law. [...]
We know a lot more now than we knew before, but what about the email I leaked? Who did the NSA talk to in the UK to OK it? Did it talk to anyone? How did an NSA official feel bold enough to write to UK civil servants anticipating their cooperation in an attempt to undermine the UN’s diplomatic processes, in a secret effort to garner information to secure “results favourable to US goals”? How far did the surveillance operation proceed? Whose communications did they intercept and record? What, if anything did they discover and did they use any information they may have gathered?
Was this email sent to other organisation or agencies besides GCHQ?
It seems reasonable to ask why this crucial information was not included in the Chilcot inquiry.
Katherine Gun leaves Bow Street Magistrates Court on November 27, 2003, in London. Gun was arrested that March on charges of violating the U.K.'s Official Secrets Act. She was working for the Government Communications Headquarters, a security agency dealing with signals intelligence, and leaked an email from the National Security Agency that sought GCHQ to pass along intercepted messages from members of the U.N. Security Council in order to determine how they might vote regarding the Bush's administration's push for an invasion of Iraq.
There's a film to be made about her, starring Natalie Dormer.