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...Coleen Rowley became enamored with the FBI's fictionalized ideal long before she heard of the real thing. Her favorite show was The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a spy spoof about two debonair agents who work to save the world from evil. In the fifth grade, Rowley wrote to the show's producers, asking to join the cadre of supersecret spies. She got a rejection letter. "They said it didn't exist," Rowley remembers. "But they told me that in the United States, we had something called the FBI. And they gave me the address." So Rowley wrote to the bureau...
Last May, when Rowley upbraided her beloved FBI in a secret 13-page memo, she thought she was on a private rescue mission. In her view, it was not a reprimand but an act of redemption. It was not about speaking truth to power, because people like Rowley don't see much difference between the two. Truth is power--that's how you catch the bad guys...
...grief about the bureaus failures--specifically, about how it ignored cries from her office to take seriously the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan who spoke poor English and had signed up at a local flight school, keen to fly a 747. Eight months after the attacks, Rowley and others got a chance to tell what they knew. Staff members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees joint inquiry into the attacks invited her and others to come to Washington for a private interview...
Thomas-Graham noted that most whistle-blowers in the recent frenzy of corporate scandal have been women, listing Enron’s Sharon Watkins, WorldCom’s Cynthia Cooper and the FBI’s Colleen Rowley as examples of women who warned their organizations of trouble and wrongdoing and were ignored...
...minds here at Time that all the months after that seem to have flashed by. Over the past 12 months, we have run 21 covers devoted to 9/11 and its consequences, ranging from anthrax to Afghanistan, from George W. Bush to a prescient FBI agent in Minnesota named Coleen Rowley. In each case we tried to give you a front-row seat to history, breaking news and making sense out of tumult...