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...could, I'd fire the director of the FBI and say to Coleen Rowley, 'O.K., lady, you've got a job.' She won't let us down." DOUG JONES Odessa...
Thank you for your report on Coleen Rowley's important memo about the FBI's obstructing measures that could have helped disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks [THE WHISTLE-BLOWER, June 3]. Her letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller told of the bureaucratic culture that stifled and frustrated the Minneapolis field office's investigation of alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Though perhaps troubling to many Americans, Rowley's letter resonates with those of us who have worked in the federal bureaucracy. We understand that the present system rewards the naysayers and consummate bureaucrats within the career civil service...
...coincidence that the two most notable whistle-blowers in American society today are women? Thank goodness for the impact of former Enron executive Sherron Watkins and FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley. I'm glad they decided to place personal ethics and morality ahead of the careerist, risk-averse approach that men often robotically use in climbing the ladder. VICKI LOUK BALINT Phoenix, Ariz...
Take J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI building and rename it the Coleen M. Rowley Building. Then perhaps the people working inside it will follow Rowley's example. CYNTHIA L. KNIGHT Uncasville, Conn...
...Coleen Rowley's explosive memo to FBI Director Mueller an act of selflessness, or was it self-serving? Many readers weren't all that quick to call her a hero. "True whistle-blowers try to expose their organization's shortcomings before they cause problems, not after," argued a Californian. "Why didn't Rowley put her job on the line back in August, before the attacks? That would've taken real guts." A Floridian dismissed Rowley as "a woman in a midlife crisis trying to get some attention," and another Sunshine Stater derided the memo as "a bid for publicity...