Daniel Ellsberg nwere ozi na ndị njikwa nke steeti agha achọghị ka ndị mmadụ nụ.
"Ọ bụrụ na ị nwere ozi nke metụtara aghụghọ ma ọ bụ iwu na-akwadoghị n'ịgbaso atumatu na-ezighi ezi ma ọ bụ agha ike ike," ka o kwuru na nkwupụta e wepụtara n'izu gara aga, "echerela iwepụta nke ahụ ma chee echiche banyere ya, tụlee ime ihe n'oge kwesịrị ekwesị. n'agbanyeghị ihe ọ ga-efu onwe gị…. Mee ihe Katharine Gun mere.”
Ọ bụrụ na ịmaghị ihe Katharine Gun mere, nzu nke ahụ ruo na ike mgbasa ozi nke usoro agha.
Aha nke Ellsberg video statement went public as this month began, just before the 15th anniversary of when a British newspaper, the Observer, revealed a secret NSA memo — thanks to Katharine Gun. At the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ, about 100 people received the same email ederede site na National Security Agency na ụbọchị ikpeazụ nke January 2003, izu asaa tupu mbuso agha nke Iraq malitere. Naanị Katharine Gun, nọ n'ihe egwu dị ukwuu nke onwe ya, kpebiri ịhapụ akwụkwọ ahụ.
Ọ bụrụ na ọtụtụ mmadụ ewerela ụdị ihe egwu dị otú ahụ na mbido 2003, a gaara egbochiri Agha Iraq. Ọ bụrụ na ọtụtụ mmadụ dị njikere itinye ihe egwu dị otú ahụ na 2018, ogbugbu ndị agha ugbu a n'ọtụtụ mba, nke ndị na-atụ ụtụ isi US na-akwado, nwere ike belata ma ọ bụrụ na akwụsịghị ya. Mgbochi nke ozi gbasara nhịahụ n'oge gara aga na-anapụ ọha mmadụ nke na-akpali ndị nlereanya.
Nke ahụ bụ ụdị eziokwu George Orwell na-ekwu banyere ya mgbe o dere, sị: “Onye na-achị ihe gara aga na-achịkwa ọdịnihu; onye na-achịkwa ugbu a na-achịkwa ihe gara aga. "
Fifteen years ago, “I find myself reading on my computer from the Observer the most extraordinary leak, or unauthorized disclosure, of classified information that I’d ever seen,” Ellsberg recalled, “and that definitely included and surpassed my own disclosure of top-secret information, a history of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam years earlier.” The Pentagon Papers whistleblower instantly recognized that, in the Observer article, “I was looking at something that was clearly classified much higher than top secret…. It was an operational cable having to do with how to conduct communications intelligence.”
Ihe Ellsberg gụrụ n'akụkọ akwụkwọ akụkọ "bụ eriri sitere na NSA na-arịọ GCHQ ka ọ nyere aka na nkwụsị nke nkwukọrịta, na nke ahụ pụtara ma ụlọ ọrụ na nkwukọrịta ụlọ, nke onye ọ bụla so na Security Council nke UN. Ugbu a, gịnị kpatara NSA ga-eji chọọ GCHQ ime nke ahụ? N'ihi na ọnọdụ nke inwe isi ụlọ ọrụ UN na Security Council na US na New York bụ na ụlọ ọrụ ọgụgụ isi US kwere nkwa ma ọ bụ chọrọ ka ha ghara ime ọgụgụ isi na ndị òtù UN. Ọfọn, n'ezie ha chọrọ nke ahụ. Ya mere, ha na-adabere na ndị ha na ha jikọrọ aka, ndị enyi, na British ime mpụ ndị a maka ha. Na nke a n'ụzọ doro anya, echere m na onye dị elu na ịnweta ọrụ ọgụgụ isi Britain ga-agbagharịrị ihe doro anya ụzọ nke agha iwu na-akwadoghị. "
Mana n'ezie, ntapu ahụ esighị n'aka "onye dị elu" na GCHQ. Onye nta akụkọ ahụ tụgharịrị bụrụ onye afọ 28 dị afọ XNUMX ọkà mmụta asụsụ na onye nyocha na ụlọ ọrụ, Katharine Gun, onye họọrọ itinye aka megide njem ahụ gaa agha.
Dị ka Gun nwere kọrọ, ya na ndị ọrụ GCHQ ndị ọzọ “natara ozi-e site n'aka onye isi ọrụ na National Security Agency. O kwuru na ụlọ ọrụ ahụ 'na-arị elu nke a na-eduzi ndị otu UN Security Council,' nakwa na ọ chọrọ "ozi niile nke nwere ike inye ndị na-eme iwu US ihu n'inweta nsonaazụ dị mma maka ebumnuche US ma ọ bụ wepụ ihe ịtụnanya." ”
N'ikwu ya n'ụzọ ọzọ, ndị ọchịchị US na Britain chọrọ ịṅa ntị na ndị nnọchiteanya UN bụ isi wee megharịa ma ọ bụ ọbụna mebie ha na ntuli aka maka agha.
Katharine Gun took action: “I was furious when I read that email and leaked it. Soon afterwards, when the Observer ran a front-page story — ‘U.S. 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.”
Nkwusa a mere ozugbo. "Nke a abụghị akụkọ ihe mere eme," ka Ellsberg kwuru. "Nke a bụ eriri dị ugbu a, enwere m ike ịhụ ozugbo site na ụbọchị ahụ, ọ bụkwa tupu agha amalitela megide Iraq. Na ebumnuche doro anya nke ya bụ ịkpali nkwado nke ndị otu Security Council iji kwado mkpebi UN ọhụrụ maka mbuso agha Iraq. "
The eavesdropping was aimed at gaining a second — and this time unequivocal — Security Council resolution in support of an invasion. “British involvement in this would be illegal without a second resolution,” Ellsberg said. “How are they going to get that? Obviously essentially by blackmail and intimidation, by knowing the private wants and embarrassments, possible embarrassments, of people on the Security Council, or their aides, and so forth. The idea was, in effect, to coerce their vote.”
Katharine Gun mebiri atụmatụ ahụ. Ọ bụ ezie na a na-akọkarị ya na mgbasa ozi US (n'agbanyeghị oke weputa akuko produced by my colleagues at the Institute for Public Accuracy beginning in early March of 2003), the revelations published by the Observer caused huge media coverage across much of the globe — and sparked outrage in several countries with seats on the Security Council.
“In the rest of the world there was great interest in the fact that American intelligence agencies were interfering with their policies of their representatives in the Security Council,” Ellsberg noted. A result was that for some governments on the Security Council at the time, the leak “made it impossible for their representatives to support the U.S. wish to legitimize this clear case of aggression against Iraq. So, the U.S. had to give up its plan to get a supporting vote in the UN.” The U.S. and British governments “went ahead anyway, but without the legitimating precedent of an aggressive war that would have had, I think, many consequences later.”
Ellsberg kwuru, sị: “Ihe kacha tụrụ m n’anya n’oge ahụ ma ka dịkwa m gbasara nkwuwapụta a bụ na nwa agbọghọ ahụ lere eriri a na-agafe na kọmputa ya na GCHQ mere ihe fọrọ nke nta ka ọ bụrụ ozugbo na ihe ọ hụrụ bụ ịchụso agha iwu na-akwadoghị site n’ụzọ iwu na-akwadoghị… . A na-ajụkarị m, ọ nwere ihe ọ bụla gbasara ntọhapụ nke akwụkwọ Pentagon na Vietnam nke ị na-akwa ụta. Azịza m bụ ee, nke ukwuu. Ọ na-ewute m na ewepụtaghị m akwụkwọ nzuzo nzuzo dị m na Pentagon na 1964, ọtụtụ afọ tupu m enyefe ha Senate na akwụkwọ akụkọ. Afọ nke agha na afọ nke bọmbụ. Ọ bụghị na m na-eche banyere nke ahụ oge niile. Enweghị m ụkpụrụ nduzi iji kụziere m nke ahụ n'oge ahụ. Ma n'ọnọdụ ọ bụla, apụrụ m ịgbalịsi ike ịkwụsị agha ahụ ma ọ bụrụ na m ga-eme ngwa ngwa ngwa ngwa.”
Katharine Gun “was not dealing only with historical material,” Ellsberg emphasizes, she “was acting in a timely fashion very quickly on her right judgement that what she was being asked to participate in was wrong. I salute her. She’s my hero. I think she’s a model for other whistleblowers. And for a long time I’ve said to people in her position or my old position in the government: Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait till the bombs are falling or thousands more have died.”
By making her choice, Gun risked two years of imprisonment. In Ellsberg’s words, she seemed to be facing “a sure conviction — except that the government was not willing to have the legality of that war discussed in a courtroom, and in the end dropped the charges.”
As this month began, Katharine Gun spoke at a London news conference, co-sponsored by ExposeFacts and RootsAction.org (organizations I’m part of) and hosted by the National Union of Journalists. Speaking alongside her were three other whistleblowers — Thomas Drake, Matthew Hoh and Jesselyn Radack — who have emerged as eloquent American truth tellers from the NSA, State Department and Justice Department. The presentations by the four are stunning to ekiri.
Atụmatụ ha, bụ́ ndị e tinyere n'oké ihe ize ndụ, na-emesi ike otú anyị pụrụ isi wepụta oge iji ohere ahụ mee ihe n'ezoghị ọnụ nke akọnuche. Eziokwu a anọghị naanị n'ihe anyị na-akpọ ịfụ ụfụ. Ọ bụ maka ohere n'ime ụwa ebe ịgbachi nkịtị na-anabatakarị ihe na-adịghị mma, na nkwụsị nke ikpe na-ezighị ezi dị mkpa maka ịmepụta ọdịnihu mmadụ.
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