Spy Symposium, American University, Washington DC, September 24, 2008
PoliPointPress present Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion.
Gun will be appearing at the Spy Symposium tonight alongside Vietnam-era whistle-blower icon, Daniel Ellsberg; veteran CIA analyst, Ray McGovern; Boston University professor and former CIA officer Arthur Hulnick; clinical psychologist and author Dr. Peter Whitmer; and International Spy Museum executive director Peter Earnest. Martin Bright, the London Observer editor who risked prison to publish the leak, will be a special guest.
This high-profile symposium at the American University will focus on controversial global ethics issues versus "national security."
Host: Peter Kuznick, Associate Professor- American Unversity
Time:
Speakers:
10.40
Marsha Mitchell, Journalist and Associate Director at Film Institute
16.40
Katherine Gun, GCHQ whistle-blower
29.02
Martin Bright, Journalist and Political Editor for NewStatesman
48.45
Daniel Ellsberg, Veteran CIA analyst
01.11.00
Peter Earnest, Executive Director-International Spy Museum
I am SURE if Real News existed then it would have been covered... this is HUGE (manipulating the UN Security Council? what could be more news worthy)?
sam 2008-09-24
Earnest insinuates that the falsehoods about wmds were the results of intelligence failures.
sam 2008-09-24
It didn't make the news here "because there was a lot going on."
sam 2008-09-24
Peter Earnest puts forward a strawman, saying that it wasn't the case that someone from the gov got the press not to cover this story. Obviously. It *was* the decision of the press -- and that's the point. That shows a huge bias.
He also argues that Katharine Gun should have know what she was getting into. Yes, she knew that they spied. She perhaps didn't know that they engineered aggressive war.
sam 2008-09-24
I think this panel is great, but you didn't really need inside info to know that Bush et al were lying their way into war. Anyone paying attention could have figured that out. Is anyone else here?
sam 2008-09-24
Wasn't Sean Penn in a movie about a Brit spy? Was that related at all to the Gun story?
geraldine 2008-09-24
Peter Kuznick is the host. Associate Professor at American University
sam 2008-09-24
Who is this speaking? Any body know?
sam 2008-09-24
Jackson Browne played a great song about Cuba on Colbert last night
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