“In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing,” whistle-blower Katharine Gun, whom Keira Knightley plays in Official Secrets, tells V.F.—a lesson she hopes will stick with those who see the film
were saying at the time.… I had bought a couple of books which had been rushed into print at that point—one calledI was convinced that there was nothing Iraq had done [to warrant the invasion]. When I saw the red flag…it was like, Oh, my gosh, this is so explosive. They’re lying about what their motives are…that immediately made me think, I have got to get this out. If people knew about this, nobody would support this invasion.
Gun and her legal team decided to fight charges in late 2003. “We were basically going to put the Iraq War on trial,” she said. “The defense would have argued that, at the time I leaked the memo, I believed the war was illegal. We were going to bring all of this out and it was all going to be in the public.” Instead, the case was dropped—a temporary relief for her, but a troubling outcome on a greater scale, since it essentially meant “they slammed the door shut on that discussion.
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