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As reported on randomwalks almost a year ago, Katherine Gun, a translator at General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ, the centre of "signals intelligence" and "information assurance" of British intelligence) leaked a confidential e-mail to the Observer from US agencies asking British officers to tap phones of nations voting on war against Iraq. She was sacked in June and charged in November of last year with breaking the Official Secrets Act. Her trial, which was due to begin today, has collapsed, after the prosecution offered no evidence against her. Gun said she had no regrets and would do it again: "I was pretty horrified and I felt that the British intelligence services were being asked to do something that would undermine the whole UN democratic processes." No official explanation as to why the case was dropped has been made.