Biography
Special Agent (ret.) Coleen Rowley served in the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 24 years, during which time she worked in several offices, including those in Nebraska, Mississippi, New York, France and Montreal.
She also served as the Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who taught Constitutional Law and law enforcement ethics to FBI agents and other law enforcement agencies. She then became a whistleblower about the FBI’s pre 9-11 failures, testifying to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Inspector General Staff of the Department of Justice. She was named, along with two other corporate whistleblowers, as Time Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year. In an early March 2003 memorandum, she warned FBI Director Robert Mueller about the Bush Administration’s deceptive plan to launch war on Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks.
She holds a B.A. in French from Wartburg College and a law degree from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and CNN.com. In 2002, she received the Sam Adams Award – given annually to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics.
Areas of Expertise
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Interagency National Security Intelligence process
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Criminal, terrorism, and counter-intelligence investigations
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Law enforcement / Use Of Force ethics
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International and Constitutional law
Recent News
- Matthew Hoh: Iraq War: Twenty Years LaterThis consistent line of violence directed against the Iraqi people to achieve American political aims had been established for decades.
- Matthew Hoh: Marine Corps Reserve veteran reflects on ‘fly on the wall’ view of Iraq War[They were] not prepared at all to handle the magnitude of the war.
- Gregory Daddis: On the Iraq WarI think it’s time for us as Americans to start questioning the assumptions we have in war and stop placing so much faith in what war can achieve for us overseas.