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...agent Rowley, a TIME Person of the Year in 2002, wrote a memo to FBI headquarters that year accusing the bureau of obstructing measures that might have disrupted the 9/11 attacks. Here she is expressing her personal views, not those...
...better coordinate domestic-security efforts. The last thing a conservative Republican wanted to do was create the biggest new federal bureaucracy in 50 years. But pressure grew to the point that even Republicans were abandoning him. When Bush finally did reverse course--on the day FBI agent Coleen Rowley went public about the 9/11 clues that had fallen through the cracks--he went on the air in a national address and insisted that a new Homeland Security Department was needed. And in the months that followed, he even helped Republicans ride the issue to victory in the 2002 midterm elections...
...commanders on scene are the only ones qualified to determine if their forces are stretched too thin. The media and politicians sitting in their plush surroundings have done nothing but report the negative aspects of the situation in order to influence the general public. Wes Rowley Bonita Springs...
Cooper, Watkins and Rowley are admirable people, but I thought TIME selected Persons of the Year on the basis of their influence on the whole world. I can't see that these whistle-blowers had the slightest influence on global events. The people who changed our lives the most all over the world were the terrorists. Not only do we have to live every day with anxiety and fear, but we must also send our loved ones to war in places like Afghanistan. The terrorists even boosted George W. Bush's popularity and gave his party a victory...
...Some readers felt that Cooper, Rowley and Watkins deserved a better designation than whistle-blowers. "The term has a disloyal and shady connotation," wrote a Connecticut reader. "Surely you could have found a more kindly word to describe what they did." A Los Angeles woman concurred: "Calling them whistle-blowers sold these women short and subtly undermined the example of conviction and courage they set." Joining the chorus was a man from New York State: "The headline did little justice to their contribution to society. How about calling them just plain courageous...