Jessica's Blog post 2 Enemy of the people

Research a famous whistleblower not mentioned in this lesson.
Summarize briefly who this person was and why this person was a whistleblower.
Compare and contrast this person to the whistleblower from Enemy of the People, Dr. Stockmann.


Katharine Teresa Gun is a former employee for the Government Communications Headquarters, more commonly known as a British intelligence agency in which she worked as a translator. She became widely known for spewing top-secret information to the press relating to illegal activities performed by the United States of America in their efforts to invade Iraq in. On January 31, 2003, she received a frightening e-mail from an American National Security Agency official and this mail called for aid in an illegal and secret operation to bug the United Nations offices of six high risk nations. These six nations consisted of the “swing nations” that were on the UN Security Council. These nations could very well have determined whether or not the UN accepted the criticized invasion of Iraq. Gun admitted purging the email to the press (The Observer) but said she did it "with a clear conscience", hoping to somehow prevent the bloody war. "I have no regrets and I would do it again", she said. She "honestly didn't think that would have had any practical effect.” After her revelation, GCHQ abruptly terminated her employment. I believe that like doctor Stockman Kathrine saw the issue at hand and immediately told the public think it would solve the situation. Just as doctor Stockman had told the public the water was contaminated