Coleen Rowley
 Coleen Rowley        (9-11/Whistleblower, lawyer) | |
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| Born | December 20, 1954 New Hampton, Iowa, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa, Wartburg College |
| Children | 4 |
| Spouse | Ross Rowley |
| Exposed | • War on Terror/Purposes • FBI |
| Member of | Sam Adams Award, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity |
| Party | Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party |
Whistleblower who exposed the FBI's cover-up of the information from the Minneapolis FBI field office that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
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Coleen Rowley is a whistleblower who exposed the FBI's cover-up of the information from the Minneapolis FBI field office that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. When she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June of 2002, she found no one was interested in the truth she had to tell.[1]
Career
“I began a long time ago right after 9/11 being appalled by the fact that this cover-up was beginning, and then seeing this so-called war on terror began, and again had very little connection to what I knew what was behind that the terrorist attacks, and seeing "terrorism" grow. In the world right now if we wanted to be safer you do something, but you don’t do something that makes the problem worse.”
Coleen Rowley [2]
Whistleblowing
"Coleen Rowley brought several of the pre 9/11 lapses to light and testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community."[3]
Documents by Coleen Rowley
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:Coleen Rowley Memo | memo | 21 May 2002 | 9-11 Zacarias Moussaoui | This "edited version" of a 13 page letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller was headlined by Time as "The Bombshell Memo" |
| Document:Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures | statement | 7 December 2010 | Wikileaks | A statement of support for Wikileaks. "The big question is not whether Americans can 'handle the truth.' We believe they can..." |
| Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack | memo | 6 September 2013 | Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack |
