Ltc. Karen U. Kwiatkowski
Biography
Ltc. (ret.) Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force officer whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and various roles for the National Security Agency.
After retiring, she become a noted critic of the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is known for her insider essays denouncing a corrupting political influence on military intelligence, especially leading up to the 2003 Iraq. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatt in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
While in the Air Force, she wrote two books, Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (2001). She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas (2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom (2010). She has been featured in several documentaries, including Why We Fight (2005). She has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003 and her work has appeared in Salon and The American Conservative. She has an MA in Government from Harvard, an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska, and a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America; her thesis was titled Angola, A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine. She is a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Areas of Expertise
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National Security Intelligence interagency process
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Iraq Wars – Intelligence case study
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U.S. policy in Africa
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National Security Agency operations
Recent News
- Press Briefing: Imminent Threat – or Ruse? Intel on Iran a Flashback to Iraq?US Veterans, from Vietnam to Iraq, know how wars have been based on “contradicted or even non-existent” intelligence (Senate bipartisan report on Iraq, 2008).
- STOP THE IRAN WAR!The Trump administration appears to be spoiling for war with Venezuela. Yet that country poses no national security threat to the United States, nor has Congress issued a declaration of war.
- Republican Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Win First Annual “Profiles in Cowardice” AwardThe Trump administration appears to be spoiling for war with Venezuela. Yet that country poses no national security threat to the United States, nor has Congress issued a declaration of war.