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...cover of Time Magazine, where Watkins was one of three whistleblowers featured on the front cover of the magazine’s “Persons of the Year.” The other two whistleblowers included Cynthia Cooper, an internal auditor at WorldCom and FBI agent Coleen Rowley. While Cooper mounted an investigation that revealed the largest known bookkeeping scam in corporate history, misstating earnings by at least $3.8 million, Rowley was the one who disclosed incompetence in counterterrorism efforts before the Sept. 11 attacks...
...takes a particular type of courage—the courage to be unpopular—to become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped...
...whistle-blowers—Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley—each served as the chief breadwinners in their families, with husbands who were full-time, stay-at-home fathers. For each one of them, the decision to blow the whistle meant jeopardizing a paycheck their families depended on. While Rowley was granted whistle-blower protection, she still expressed concern for reprisals in her letters to FBI chief Robert Mueller. There are no guarantees whistleblowers do not receive some sort of professional punishment, however subtle...
...agent Coleen Rowley showed clarity of vision and courage in risking her career to disclose intelligence failures within the FBI in 2002. In her Viewpoint, "What the FBI Needs--and Doesn't Need" [April 26], she wrote that taking domestic intelligence gathering away from the FBI and giving it to a new agency modeled after Britain's MI5 would undermine post-9/11 intelligence-agency reforms and would not be a positive move. A new government entity cannot help prevent another 9/11. The best possible strategy for handling terrorist threats is to steel our resolve, use our common sense...
VIEWPOINT: Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley offers an FBI remedy...