It's likely that most Americans have never heard of Katherine Gun. Gun is the former British secret service officer who leaked an email describing a plot orchestrated by the Bush an Blair administrations to force the hand of the United Nations in authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Gun was put on trial for leaking the email and the story garnered wide coverage in Europe. Unsurprisingly, in the hype that characterized the runup to the war here in the States, the story received little media play. The larger story is being told for the first time in long form. PoliPoint Press has just released "The Spy Who Tried to Stop A War," Gun's story as written by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, the former a senior executive for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the latter a former FBI special agent. Off the Bus caught up with Gun on her...
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