{"id":367,"date":"2004-02-25T07:06:03","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=367"},"modified":"2004-02-25T07:06:03","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:06:03","slug":"case-dropped-against-katharine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Case Dropped Against Katharine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/international\/index.ssf?\/base\/international-5\/1077712749191921.xml\">Excerpt:<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">During a brief court hearing on Wednesday, Gun, a former Mandarin translator with Britain&#8217;s Government Communications Headquarters, pleaded innocent to the charge. The prosecution then dropped the case, but gave no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no longer sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction,&#8221; prosecutor Mark Ellison told the judge at the Old Bailey criminal court. &#8220;It would not be appropriate for me to go into the reasons behind that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Michael Hyam ordered that a verdict of not guilty be recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and British governments have declined to comment on the allegations, saying they never discusses intelligence matters.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typo [discusses?] aside, rarely have I seen so honest an admission attributed to either govt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: During a brief court hearing on Wednesday, Gun, a former Mandarin translator with Britain&#8217;s Government Communications Headquarters, pleaded innocent to the charge. The prosecution then dropped the case, but gave no explanation. &#8220;There is no longer sufficient evidence for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}