Truth-Telling in Government

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dear All ( and LR):


Here's a fine article-- in the first person-- by Katherine Gunn, the English whistle-blower in the case of the US phone-tapping debacle.

There's an immediacy and veracity to the writing here that isn't often found in articles about politics, spying and war.

(link)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/ ... 63,00.html



--Z

[abcrystcats]

"US plans to bug UN delegates ..."

It seems to me it doesn't matter what the reason was for the intended bugging. It could have been the impending war with Iraq or finding out what Kofi Annan was having for lunch. The bugging was wrong -- illegal. What business do we have spying on the representatives of other nations? Are we at war with the UN?

This writer goes into the direct connection between the bugging and the actions taken prior to the US decision to bomb Iraq, but would she have acted in the same way if she discovered the bugging under other circumstances?

All I'm saying is that, as important as the war with Iraq was, the bugging act would have been wrong in any circumstances, and therefore worthy of revealing.