Movie "The Official Secrets" is the tip of a mammoth iceberg – Consortiumnews

Gun's immediate action, after reading criticisms of US policy and US media coverage, argues for the achievement of government objectives by distributing leaflets, books and display panels outside government offices to encourage them to be more critical.

Solomon and Ellsberg had demystified Bush administration propaganda in real time. But Gun's revelation showed that the US and British governments were not only lying to invade Iraq, they were violating international law and making whole nations sing for queues.

The classic journals of "official secrets" still do not seem to fully grasp the importance of what they have just seen. The trendy AV Club Review leads"Almost everyone agrees that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a colossal mistake based on misinformation (at best) or fabricated (at worst)." The mistake "is a serious euphemism, even if" colossal "was associated with it details the diabolical and illegal efforts that the American and British governments have tried to make the other governments to accept.

The revelations of firearms showed before the invasion that people from within, whose livelihood depended on the party line, were willing to risk jail time for denouncing lies and threats.

Representation of L & # 39; Observer

Other than Gun herself, the film focuses on a dramatization of what happened in her work. as well as her relationship with her husband, a Turkish Kurd, whom the British government tried to deport to go to Gun. The film also describes the work of her lawyers who helped to bring down the charges of official secrets against her, as well as the drama of L & # 39; Observer, which published the NSA document after many internal debates.

Observer Journalist Martin Bright, whose work on Gun's original story was strangely followed by an unfortunate passage at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, recently noted that very little extra work was done on the case of Gun. We know practically nothing about the apparent author of the NSA document she leaked – a "Frank Koza". Other questions persist, such is the prevalence of this type of blackmail from foreign governments on foreign governments to get votes at the UN or for other purposes? How is it used? Does this correspond to the allegations of the former analyst of the NSA? Russ Tice about the NSA having massive records on political people?

Observer Journalist Ed Vulliamy is energetically represented and receives advice from former CIA man Mel Goodman. There seems to be subtle but potentially serious deviations from reality in the film. Vulliamy is described as actually speaking with "Frank Koza", but that's not what he has originally reported:

"The NSA main draw has L & # 39; Observer to the 6727 post of the agency, which was answered by an assistant, confirming that it was Koza's office. However, when L & # 39; Observer When asked to talk with Koza about the oversight of diplomatic missions at the UN, he was told, "You have reached the wrong number." In protesting that the assistant had just said it was an extension of Koza, the assistant repeated that it was a wrong extension and hung up.

There must be no doubt many aspects of the film that have been simplified or changed with respect to Gun's personal experience. A convincing part of the film – apparently fictitious or exaggerated – is a GCHQ apparatchik interviewing Gun to find out if she was the source.

Little is known about the reaction in the governments of the members of the Security Council that the United States spied. After the invasion, the Mexican ambassador, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, spoke unequivocally about American intimidation. He said he considers Mexico to be his country. trasero patioZinser was forced to resign by President Vicente Fox. Then he, in 2004, gave details on some aspects of US surveillance sabotaging the efforts of other members of the Security Council to find a compromise in order to avoid the invasion of Iraq, saying that the United States "Violated the US Government's pact of siege". In 2005, he died in a car accident.

The director of "Official Secrets," Gavin Hood, may be more correct than he realizes when he says his description of the Gun case is like the "tip of the "Iceberg", which indicates other deceptions surrounding the war in Iraq. His records with political films have been uneven until now. Peace activist David Swanson, for example, shot his film on drones, "Eye in the sky." At a screening of "official secrets" by D.C., Hood described those who supported the war in Iraq as discredited. But it's just wrong.

First presidential candidate, Joe Biden – who has not only voted for the invasion of Iraq, but presided over rigged audiences in 2002 – a recently falsified his record Many times on Iraq during presidential debates with barely a whisper. He is not alone either. Those who refuse to be held responsible for their war lies in Iraq include not only Bush and Cheney, but John Kerryand Nancy Pelosi.

Biden actually blamed Bush for not doing enough to get UN approval for the invasion of Iraq. But as the Gun case shows, there was no legitimate reason for the invasion and the Bush administration had practically done everything legally and illegally to obtain authorization from l & # 39; UN.

Many who have supported the invasion are trying to distance themselves from it. But the consequences of this illegal act are enormous: it has directly or indirectly led to the rise of the Islamic State, the civil war in Iraq and the war in Syria. Journalists who pushed for the invasion of Iraq are prosperous and are at the top of the major news agencies, such as Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. The editor who argued the most against publication of the NSA document at L & # 39; ObserverKamal Ahmed is now managing editor of BBC News.

The UK government – unlike the US – has finally produced a study ostensibly on the decision-making process leading to the invasion of Iraq, the 2016 Chilcot report. But this report – described as "devastating" by the The New York Times–made no mention of the firearms case. [See[See[Voir[Seeexactitude.org 2016 release: "Chilcot's report avoids smoking with a gun."]

After Gun's identity became known, the Institute for Public Accuracy invited Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR, to work with Program Director Hollie Ainbinder to encourage prominent personalities to make themselves known. support Gun. The film – quite plausibly – portrays the accusations against Gun for the simple reason that the British government feared that a high-profile procedure would actually jeopardize the war, which would have been a nightmare for them.