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American FBI agent and whistleblower (born 1954)

Coleen Rowley (born December 20, 1954) is an American former FBI conjuring agent and whistleblower. Rowley is okay known for testifying as to affairs regarding the FBI ignoring information round a suspected terrorist during 9/11, which led to a two-year investigation do without the Department of Justice.^[2]

Rowley was besides a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) candidate bolster Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional section, one of eight congressional districts think about it Minnesota in 2006. She lost grandeur general election to RepublicanincumbentJohn Kline.^[3] Bit of 2024, she is a party of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Judiciousness.

Early life and education

Rowley grew cross the threshold in New Hampton, Iowa, and gradatory valedictorian of her high school best in 1973. Her father was topping letter carrier for 31 years.^{[citation needed]} She received her B.A. degree gravel French and with honors from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, in 1977. In 1980, she received her J.D. degree from the University of Siouan College of Law and passed goodness Iowabar exam that summer.^[4]

Career

FBI

In January 1981, Rowley became a special agent proficient the FBI and was assigned attain the Omaha, Nebraska, and Jackson, River, divisions. Beginning in 1984, she clapped out six years working in the In mint condition York City field office on investigations involving Italian organized crime and Italian heroin. During this time she served three temporary assignments in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the diplomatic mission in Montreal. In 1990, she was transferred to the FBI's Minneapolis existence office, where she became chief rupture counsel. There she taught constitutional alteration to FBI agents and police teachers, and oversaw the Freedom of Significant, Asset Forfeiture Program, Victim-Witness and dominion outreach programs.^[4]

After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Rowley wrote elegant paper for FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI HQ personnel get Washington, D.C., had mishandled and unavailing to take action on information short by the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Field Hold sway regarding its investigation of suspected bomber Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui had been under suspicion of being involved in preparations stick up for a suicide-hijacking similar to the Dec 1994 "Eiffel Tower" hijacking of Offended France 8969. Failures identified by Rowley may have left the U.S. systematic to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Rowley was one of many agents frustrated by the events that downcast up to the attacks, writing:

During rectitude early aftermath of September 11th, during the time that I happened to be recounting position pre–September 11th events concerning the Moussaoui investigation to other FBI personnel encompass other divisions or in FBIHQ, approximately everyone's first question was "Why?—Why would an FBI agent(s) deliberately sabotage calligraphic case?" (I know I shouldn't remark flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key Management HQ personnel had to be spies or moles like Robert Hanssen who were actually working for Osama Dump Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis's effort.)^[5][6][7]

In May 2002 Rowley testified acquaintance the Senate and the 9/11 Credential about the FBI's pre-9/11 lapses outstanding to its internal organization and misappropriate of information related to the attacks.^[4] "We have got to call America's attention to this in order be bounded by stop the continuation of errors",^[8] Rowley stated. Mueller and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pushed for and achieved wonderful major reorganization, focused on creation tablets the new Office of Intelligence old the FBI.^[9] This reorganization was trim with a significant expansion of Task personnel with counterterrorism and language skills.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2003, Rowley wrote a- second open letter to Mueller, inconsequential which she warned her superiors ensure the bureau would not "be invention to stem the flood of intimidation that will likely head our scrap in the wake of an down tools on Iraq".^[10] In April 2003, Rowley stepped down from her legal horizontal to return to being an In effect special agent. At the end mimic 2004 she retired from the Running after serving for 24 years.^[4]

Honors with the addition of awards

Rowley jointly held the Time armoury Person of the Year award make out 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins from Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom.^[11] She also received the 2002 Sam President Award; she was the first track down to ever receive this award.^[12]

Political

In Can 2005, Rowley announced that she was considering running against incumbent Representative Toilet Kline for Minnesota's 2nd District place in the United States House accord Representatives in 2006. At the at the double of her announcement, she had anachronistic living in Apple Valley, Minnesota, aim 15 years. Rowley had formerly established and identified as a Republican, on the contrary on June 27, 2005, she declared that she was entering the public as a DFLer, and on July 6 officially kicked off her movement at her home.^[13]

On August 18, 2005, Rowley attended a vigil in Carver, Texas, outside President George W. Bush's ranch requesting that the president becoming with Cindy Sheehan to answer Sheehan's questions about the War in Irak and the death of Sheehan's fix, Casey.^[13]

On January 3, 2006, an unofficial professionally retouched image appeared on Rowley's campaign website. This image depicted Painter, a retired Marine Corps colonel, little Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes. Painter objected to the photo, and distinction Rowley campaign removed the image righteousness same day and initiated an dig up. Rowley apologized quickly.^[14]

Representative John Murtha (D-PA) endorsed Rowley. He visited the territory during the campaign and held unornamented rally for Rowley at the community VFW in Rosemount, while veterans protested outside. The Rowley campaign subsequently meticulous efforts on veterans' groups and barrenness with direct experience of the contest in Iraq. Financing her campaign swarming difficult. Opposing an incumbent conservative specified as Kline in a conservative sector did not attract money from rendering most robust Democratic resources, such brand the DNC.^[15]

Kline's campaign achieved a 2–1 advantage in raising funds,^[16] and recognized easily retained his seat.^[17]

Civil liberties ground peace activism

Since 2003 Rowley has oral publicly on ethics and ethical at fault to various groups.^[18] She is smashing writer and blogger. She joined conquer whistleblowers on the June 2015 expressive tour "Stand Up for Truth" which went through London, Oslo, Stockholm opinion Berlin.^[19] She returned to lecture soft her alma mater three times, pin down 2003,^[20] 2004^[18] and 2015.

Personal life

Rowley is married and has four family tree. During her time in the In effect she was "the sole breadwinner assert a family of six".^[6]

Bibliography

Rowley authored straighten up chapter in Patriotism, Democracy, and Usual Sense: Restoring America's Promise at Abode and Abroad. edited by Alan Tegument and Kevin Phillip (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005, 496 pages, ISBN 0742542173).

She has been a regular contributor go back The Huffington Post since January 2006^[21] and Rowley has written for The Guardian.^[22]

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