Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley ( born December 20 1954) is a whistleblower and former candidate for the U.S. Congress of the Minnesota Democratic - Farmer-Labor Party and a former agent of the FBI. She was awarded the Sam Adams Award and was " Person of the Year " in 2002.
Career
Rowley is Juris Doctor, her alma mater, the "College of Law" at the University of Iowa. At Wartburg College before it reached a degree in French.
FBI
During her service with the FBI from 1984 as a " Special Agent " there have been various posts abroad, such as the United States Embassy in Paris and within the United States. From 1990, she was " Chief legal adviser " ( German: Senior Adviser on legal matters ) in the Minneapolis office. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, she wrote to then- FBI Director Robert Mueller in which she denounced misconduct of their colleagues in investigating suspected of terrorism to people.
" During the early aftermath of September 11th, when i happened to be recounting the pre - September 11th events Concerning the Moussaoui investigation to other FBI personnel in other divisions or in FBIHQ, almost everyone 's first question was" Why - Why would an FBI agent ( s ) deliberately sabotage a case? (I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were made Actually did the key FBI HQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like ( Robert Hanssen ), who were Actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis 's effort. ) "
" During the initial period after September 11, when I ' summed up the pre-September 11 happened to the investigation, Moussaoui, the reaction of other employees here or at headquarters was almost always ,' Why? - Why should the Fed such a case sabotage knowingly ' ( I know I should not there be snippy, but there were jokes made about the fact that officers of the central double agents or moles as Robert Hanssen had that 'm really with Osama bin Laden work together and so undermine our morale. "
Then she was summoned to the Senate of the United States and the Commission of Inquiry on the attacks of September 11. There she repeated her statements under oath. As a result, there was at the initiative of Senator Chuck Grassley a major restructuring of the FBI. Rowley is now considered whistleblower.
In 2004, she ended her career after 24 years of service.
Policy
2005/ 06 target Rowley with the support of Democrat John Murtha a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States, but was defeated by Republican John Kline.
Awards
- Time " Person of the Year ", 2002
- Sam Adams Award, 2002