No one bbc news, Stephen Sackur has hardtalk. No one bbc news, Stephen Sackur has hardtalk. Now on. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. What makes a whistleblower . What prompts someone to break rank, maybe break the law, in order to expose a secret, often at great cost to themselves . Well, my guest today is Katharine Gun. In 2003 she worked at the uks signals intelligence agency, gchq. She leaked potentially explosive information about americas covert effort to sway un diplomats to support the iraq war. She risked everything, including prison, in an act that changed her life. Now her story has been made into a movie. But 16 years on, has her perspective changed 7 Katharine Gun, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. You are in the public eye today because of the release of a film which focuses on a fateful decision you took 16 years ago. And well talk about it in some detail. But i just want to know, at the beginning, is this gratifying for you to be back in the public eye or
Welcome t news4, im jummy o. We are in the longest, most miserable stretch ofather this summer. Temperatures expected in the 90s but when you add ithe humidity, its going to feel a whole lot worse. Chuckegins our coverage, it is hot out there. Hot m anderable as well. A hot day without the humidity around is bad enough but we have tropical levels of humidity around here. Dew point t temperatures is way we measure moisture in the weather department. Dew points are into the midand even some spots upper 70s. Hot as it is, many spots are at or above 90. When you factor in the humidity, 99 in college park, 90 at dulles. The current heat index 103 in manassas, 106 aapolis. Dangerously hot and dangerous for now and it promises to gett as we get towards the weekend. Tht part of the forecast is coming up. Thank you, chuck. With the heat chuck mentioned, its tough to stay cool. Some people are finding ways to stay cool and having fun outside while theyre at. It one stop, georgetown waterfront. T
of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and w
about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and was a model for me, rea
COMMENT: Having worked closely with him, I understand why the Wikileaks founder will always be a deeply controversial figure, writes Alan Rusbridger. His attempt to fight extradition to America – which Joe Biden now says he is considering dropping – confronts us with fundamental questions about press freedom and the power of the state