only the 4th time in u.s. history. public impeachment hearings called by house speaker nancy pelosi and against the president will begin it was a whistleblower report that made even the thought of in peaching president trump possible and it comes at the same time that violent deadly protests continue in iraq angry crowds demanding that the state finally provide basic services such as electricity and they re also calling for an end to corruption in government some see iraq s current crisis and they point to the u.s. led war in 2003 a war that we know today was sold to the international community with wide eyes some of those winds were exposed by a british woman named katherine gun and she was unable to prevent the war but her actions have been called the most important and courageous of all leaks i ll speak with katherine gun in just a moment but 1st her story which is now a movie entitled official secrets. the u.s.
and britain wanted to attack iraq with the support of a u.n. resolution when the u.s. struggled to get support the country s national security agency asked british intelligence to try and win over 6 uncommitted nations on the security council and h a h e c h q katherine gun received the directive but didn t agree eventually she had it sent to britain s observer newspaper which then revealed the plan on march 4th 2003 . that caused the scandal in britain and beyond. simply understand i m not going to comment on the operations of our security services but i do say this we act in accordance with the mystic and international law and we act in the best interests of this country and all security services are a vital part of the protection of this country a couple of weeks later the americans british and other coalition forces then decided to attack iraq without the backing of