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  Agent Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror
Coleen Rowley, the agent who exposed bureau shortcomings before the Sept. 11 attacks, is warning that the F.B.I. is unprepared for terrorism that might result from war with Iraq.
Rowley created an uproar last year when she revealed how in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks bureau supervisors in Washington had blocked Minneapolis agents who wanted authority for a broader investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has since been indicted as a conspirator in the attacks.
Rowley said she believed that the bureau was continuing to mishandle domestic counterterrorism investigations, including its follow-up to the arrests of Mr.
www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0306-06.htm   (1454 words)

  
  Former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley officially announced candidacy for Congress
Rowley grew up in New Hampton, Iowa, earned a law degree at the University of Iowa, and achieved a childhood ambition by becoming a FBI special agent in 1981.
Rowley is critical of the Republican handling of the Iraq War, saying the war was deceptively marketed as a solution or response to 9/11 and that the country has become a breeding ground for terrorism.
Rowley considers herself strongly "Pro Life," explaining if she wasn't she wouldn't have brought up the lapses in the FBI prior to the Iraq War.
www.hometownsource.com /capitol/2005/july/6rowley.html   (557 words)

  
 Power Line: Who is Coleen Rowley?
Rowley's candidacy is based entirely on the recognition she earned as a whistleblower chastising FBI headquarters, among other things, for preventing local agents from seeking a criminal search warrant to examine Mouussaoui's laptop and for failing to seek a FISA warrant even though probable cause for a FISA warrant was clear, in Rowley's opinion.
Rowley told the Inspector General that she did not know why a criminal warrant was not sought once the FISA route was exhausted.
Rowley acknowledged that she lacked extensive experience about FISA and that she was not in a position to advise the Minneapolis FBI field office on the issues surrounding the FISA request (206).
powerlineblog.com /archives/014446.php   (997 words)

  
 The Day the Coleen Rowley Campaign Faced the Advertising on the Wall
There are five possible factors: the ideology of the electorate, the conduct of the Kline campaign, the conduct of the Rowley campaign, the inattention of the press and its abdication of its responsibilities as the Jeffersonian "fourth estate," and the indifference of the DCCC under the leadership of Rahm Emanuel.
Rowley still wonders why her campaign "didn't have the money to effectively combat Kline's smears and why it was never able to attract the support and money of the Democratic and other powerful special interests.
Rogers says, "Her (Rowley's) opponent ran the most vicious and negative attack ads in Minnesota's history." In spite of the odds stacked decidedly against her, Coleen Rowley received the largest percentage of votes for any challenger to an incumbent congressman in Minnesota.
www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_georgian_061204_the_day_the_coleen_r.htm   (3622 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley sells items on eBay to help pay off campaign debt
Rowley said the idea came to her and her staff when they started brainstorming about what to do with all the leftover campaign items.
Rowley, who says this was her first and only bid for political office, said she was overwhelmed with the costs associated with running a campaign.
Rowley said she found it difficult to ask people for money during her campaign saying campaigning was “rather out of character” for her.
www.thisweek-online.com /2006/December/22rmrowley122306.html   (554 words)

  
 Kerfuffles :: Coleen Rowley, Whistle-blower :: January :: 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Rowley, who is running on the election platform of being an advocate of “ethical decision-making,” made the “ethical decision” to publish a never-before-seen photograph of John Kline as a Nazi military officer.
The most troubling facet of this stunning discovery by former FBI whiste-blower Coleen Rowley is that Colonel Kline was a military adviser to both Presidents Carter and Reagan and it was he, serving as a Marine Corps officer, who carried the nuclear “football” – the package containing launch codes for a nuclear attack.
Rowley had that vital information, but neglected to whistle-blow it during her FBI stint, when Colonel Kline was playing with the nation’s nuclear football.
kerfuffles.blogsome.com /2006/01/31/coleen-rowley-whistleblower   (456 words)

  
 ECM EDITORIAL BOARD: Coleen Rowley right choice in 2nd District
Rowley supports a phased troop withdrawal that calls for allowing the Iraqi army and security forces to assume responsibility for the country.
Rowley says revenue from repealing the tax cuts should be applied only to reduction of the $300 billion national deficit, not new spending.
Of course, Rowley is best known for her post-Sept. 11 documentation of how FBI headquarters personnel in Washington, D.C., mishandled information provided by the Minnesota field office on now-convicted terrorist plotter Zacarias Moussaoui.
hometownsource.com /2006/October/26rowley.html   (626 words)

  
 Congressman John Murtha to Visit Minnesota in Support of Congressional Candidate Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley, the DFL-endorsed candidate in Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, running unopposed in her party’s primary, will face Republican incumbent John Kline in the general election November 7th.
Rowley has consistently opposed the Iraq war since before it was launched, stating that there was no link to al Qaeda, as the Administration and her opponent both claim.
Rowley is a 24-year veteran of the F.B.I. and was a Time Magazine “Person of the Year”; in 2002 as a whistleblower on intelligence failures prior to 9/11.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb436343.htm   (820 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley for U.S. Congress: Campaign 2006
Rowley was critical of President George Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and many domestic issues in her speech, but she saved her most pointed criticism for her Republican opponent Congressman John Kline.
Rowley also thanked State Senator Sharon Marko of Cottage Grove, who had recently dropped out of the race for the DFL endorsement to face Kline in November, for her service to the community and her bold decision to run for the endorsement.
At the walking subcaucus the group formed to support Coleen Rowley's endorsement was the largest, and they were able to send a number delegates and alternates to the Congressional District Convention and the State Convention later this spring.
www.coleenrowley.com /pages/campaign2006.php   (831 words)

  
 The Second Congressional District Minnesota DFL Homepage CD2
Coleen also gave several reason why her republican opponent must be voted out of office including his history of supporting big business and corporations while voting against those bills that would help working families, veterans, and children.
With Coleen Rowley, her demonstrated record of truth-telling and moral courage stands in stark contrast with the abject corruption and cronyism that is repulsing voters of all stripes across America.
Coleen takes her campaign to the streets this weekend as we begin canvassing and reminding voters of her commitment to telling the truth about the FBI and exposing problems in the Bush administration's reasoning for the occupation of Iraq.
www.dflcd2.org /coleen.html   (3557 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Rowley: whistle-blower practicing short answers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Coleen Rowley is a national figure as a result of her memo about problems at the FBI before 9/11, such as superiors' refusals to authorize a search of would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui's computer.
Rowley's background gives weight to her contention that the government has made a series of mistakes since 9/11, from creating the unwieldy Department of Homeland Security to skirting laws in the name of fighting terrorism.
Rowley can be rambling — but at one house party in St. Paul, her remarks were so brief that she did not discuss her signature issues of ethics and terrorism until two questioners prompted her.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-06-07-election-rowley_x.htm   (393 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coleen Rowley (born December 20, 1954) is a former FBI agent and whistleblower, and was a candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota in 2006.
In May 2005, Rowley announced that she was considering running against incumbent Representative John Kline for Minnesota's 2nd District seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2006.
Rowley, a practicing Catholic, was a drug-legalizing liberal of questionable patriotism because she in fact failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coleen_Rowley   (984 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley Responds to Bush’s Criticism of Iraq Death Toll Numbers
Coleen Rowley responded to President George Bush’s criticism of published reports of 655,000 Iraqi deaths since the beginning of the war.
Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent running for Congress in the Second Congressional District of Minnesota who brought pre-9/11 lapses in the investigation of Zacharias Moussaoui to light.
In 2003, Rowley stepped-down as legal counsel after an unsuccessful attempt to warn the FBI of the dangers of launching an invasion of Iraq.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb449882.htm   (705 words)

  
 FBI Leaves Coleen Rowley To Fend for Herself
Swarms of television news crews were waiting for Rowley to leave the building, She stepped out into the mass of cameras, apparently unescorted.
Gerold doesn't know what Rowley's long-term future in the FBI will be but believes that in the short term she'll be comfortable back in the Minneapolis office, which is headed by Deborah Pierce.
Rowley hasn't said what her goals and aspirations are within the FBI.
www.rense.com /general26/coor.htm   (691 words)

  
 NEWSMAKER PROFILE / Coleen Rowley / Agency whistle-blower known as straight arrow
In the days since Rowley delivered a scathing, 13-page letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller and key lawmakers that criticized the agency's investigation of the only suspect directly charged in the Sept. 11 attacks -- retired FBI agent Larry Brubaker said the personal e-mails he has received are piling up in her favor.
In short, Rowley asserts in excerpts of her letter leaked in recent days that officials in FBI headquarters ignored key evidence and intelligence that could have justified a special national security warrant to search the laptop, which contained files on crop-dusting and commercial-flight simulations.
Rowley's humor emerged subtly when she parsed the law to explain why the FBI went after the Animal Liberation Front for a lab rat attack but couldn't prosecute the Earth Liberation Front for a fatal assault on genetically altered oat plants.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/27/MN19110.DTL   (735 words)

  
 Kowabunga: Coleen Rowley Calls For Abandoning Iraq
This is patently false, and Rowley is politicizing the war on terrorism for her own political gain.
Rowley is another one of those week-in-the-knee wanna-be politicians, who is the type to cut and run, abandoning the newly freed peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan to succumb to tyranny.
Rowley, and many other leftists of her stripe, fail to realize a few important facts: the acts of terrorism in Iraq are being performed by freedom hating terrorists bent on murder, not insurgents.
www.kowabunga.org /2005/08/coleen_rowley_calls_for_abando.html   (611 words)

  
 The Connection.org : Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley first made headlines when her thirteen page memo criticizing the FBI was leaked to the public in the spring of 2002.
Rowley -- an agent with a reputation for loyalty and a love for the FBI -- suddenly found herself in the uncomfortable role of whistleblower.
Coleen Rowley on the promise and peril of intelligence reform.
www.theconnection.org /shows/2005/01/20050112_a_main.asp   (245 words)

  
 FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley for Congress in 2006 | TPMCafe
FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley for Congress in 2006
Rowley gained national attention in 2002 for her stinging criticisms of FBI management and their failure to prevent the September 11 attacks.
Rowley would be smart to portray Kline as the "empty suit" he is; it is the most accurate assessment in light of his voting record.
www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/6/28/16935/6452   (710 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley for U.S. Congress
Coleen Rowley and Tom Devine, the legal director for the Government Accountability Project, together authored an editorial that explains why the recent Supreme Court decision to allow retaliation against employees in the public sector who point out corruption and wrong-doing while "one the job" is dangerous.
Coleen Rowley explains why the Moussaoui case proved that our regular adversarial jury-trial system can work in fighting terrorism, and why the Bush administration's approach is opposed to the ideals Americans have come to expect from their government.
Coleen Rowley explains in an editorial published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press why she believes the current administration and those politicians who back it are not true conservatives.
www.coleenrowley.com /pages/news_media.php   (1923 words)

  
 Democrats Courting FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley to Run for Congress
Rowley, 48, has not publicly disclosed her political leanings and declined to comment Thursday.
Rowley was named one of Time magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year for criticizing FBI headquarters' refusal to seek a warrant for a search of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui's possessions before Sept. 11.
Coleen Rowley works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a special agent with the Minneapolis office.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1011517/posts   (1146 words)

  
 Ramesh Ponnuru on Coleen Rowley & War on National Review Online
Rowley is trading on her reputation as a "whistle-blower" to make it sound as though there is something particularly authoritative about this argument when it comes from her.
Rowley concludes by noting that she knows that her comments may appear "presumptuous for a person of my rank." It doesn't strike me as inappropriate for a citizen to share her thoughts on American foreign policy with government officials.
If Rowley were to leave the bureau entirely in order to become a pundit, I'm sure there would be a place for her in the cable line-up.
www.nationalreview.com /ponnuru/ponnuru030703.asp   (1132 words)

  
 DownWithTyranny!: COLEEN ROWLEY FOR CONGRESS
Rowley was chief counsel of the FBI's Minneapolis field office, when, in a 13-page memo, she outlined how FBI headquarters thwarted agents' attempts to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker.
Rowley is a clear-headed, solution-oriented, common-sense progressive with a great shot at ousting an out-of-touch right-winger with questionable relationships to some of the people in the very center of the Republican financial scandals in DC.
Rowley was the very first candidate to whom I sent a check this year.
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com /2006/02/coleen-rowley-for-congress.html   (881 words)

  
 Coleen Rowley for U.S. Congress
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www.coleenrowley.com /pages/legal.php   (527 words)

  
 Goverup.com » Coleen Rowley: Political Seabiscuit?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In case you haven’t heard, Coleen Rowley, the FBI truthteller recognized in 2002 as one of Time’s “Persons of the Year,”; is running for Congress.
Rowley radiates an inner strength – call it purity, integrity, commitment or heart – that led her to courageously challenge failed FBI anti-terrorism efforts; and, ultimately, it may make Coleen Rowley an upset winner, the Seabiscuit of American politics.
Rowley has won numerous races as a runner and triathlete, and held the women’s record for two miles at the FBI academy, she told Triathlete magazine (Feb. 2006).
www.goverup.com /?p=264   (832 words)

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