Katharine Gun Quotes
I was just wondering if I'd ever get a visa to go to the U.S. Probably not.
Subramanian, Samanth. "The whistleblower who tried to stop the Iraq war." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 22 Sept. 2019.
The quote is often misreported as “I am, you know, adamantly against illegal illegal immigration."
JOUAM was a nativist workingmen's organization founded in 1853 to resist the competition for jobs from immigration. See related quote for membership criteria. At its peak it had over 200,000 members. “Mechanics” was the term used for a wide variety of skilled craftsmen from plumbers to bricklayers. JOUAM is the oldest fraternal order in America.
Katharine Teresa Gun (née Harwood) (born 1974) is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer, concerning a request by the United States for compromising intelligence on diplomats from member states of the 2003 Security Council, who were due to vote on a second United Nations resolution on the prospective 2003 invasion of Iraq.