Marion Bowman
 Marion Bowman    (spook, mariner, diplomat) | ||||||||||
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| Alma mater | George Washington University Law School, University of Idaho, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Willamette University | |||||||||
FBI leader who refused to seek a special warrant to search Zacarias Moussaoui’s belongings before the 9/11 attacks. Later awarded cash bonus and presidential citation for "exceptional performance".
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Marion "Spike" Bowman is the former Senior Counsel to the FBI, and the former Deputy National Counter Intelligence Executive.
Career
He joined the U.S. Navy and became a Captain who has been Head of International Law at the Naval War College.
He also worked as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy, and as Chief of Litigation for the U.S. Navy.[1]
9/11
On August 28, 2001, as head of the FBI’s national security law unit Bowman refused to seek a special warrant for a search of Zacarias Moussaoui’s belongings before the 9/11 attacks.
Bowman’s unit also blocked an urgent request by FBI agents to begin searching for Khalid Almihdhar after his name was put on a watch list.[2]
In 2003 FBI Director Robert Mueller personally awarded Marion (Spike) Bowman with a presidential citation for "exceptional performance" and cash bonus of approximately 25 percent of his salary. The award comes shortly after a 9/11 Congressional Inquiry report saying Bowman’s unit gave Minneapolis FBI agents “inexcusably confused and inaccurate information” that was “patently false."[3]
He also thwarted FBI investigations into the anthrax attacks on Congress.[4]
References
- ↑ http://witnesstoguantanamo.com/interviews/marionspikebowman/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080306210542/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org//entity.jsp?entity=marion_(_spike_)_bowman
- ↑ http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=marion_%28_spike_%29_bowman
- ↑ http://www.whodidit.org/cocon.html
