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Now this is interesting. The British government has without explanation dropped its case against the British intelligence services translator accused of violating the Official Secrets Act. Katharine Gun had been accused of "disclosing a request allegedly from a US National Security Agency official for help from British intelligence to tap the telephones of UN Security Council delegates during the period of fraught diplomacy before the war," the Guardian reports.
Yesterday, after Gun pleaded not guilty to the charge, "prosecutor Mark Ellison told the court the case would not go ahead. He said: 'The prosecution offer no evidence against the defendant on this indictment as there is no longer sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. It would not be appropriate to go into the reasons for this decision.'"
No longer sufficient evidence?
Pretty intriguing. How does a case like this suddenly disappear? Gun's supporters as I understand think she is a hero for having leaked -- not an innocent victim. Seems the British government -- or more likely, this one -- wanted this case to go away.