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At a May press conference capping his tenure as special counsel, Robert Mueller emphasized what he called "the central allegation" of the two-year Russia probe. The Russian government, Mueller sternly declared, engaged in "multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election, and that allegation deserves the attention of every American." Mueller's comments echoed a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) asserting with "high confidence" that Russia conducted a sweeping 2016 election influence campaign. "I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process," then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate...

Rowley wrote a 13-page letter in May 2002 to FBI Director Robert Mueller reaching out for help. She claimed FBI officials were resisting seeking search warrants and punished agents who sought help from the CIA. I tried to find a link to the letter, but it has been removed from the Internet. However, I found parts of the transcript, and here are some of the highlights: https://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/9/two_fbi_whistleblowers_accuse_bureau_of COLEEN ROWLEY: Well, let me preface anything I say. I have been instructed not to talk to the media, and that’s actually surprising since the letter that I wrote initially supposedly got whistleblower...

Coleen Rowley's campaign buttons and bumper stickers weren't enough to get her into Congress, but she's hoping that selling them on eBay will get her campaign out of debt. The Democrat and former FBI whistleblower is selling autographed yard signs for $20 each, and buttons or packs of campaign literature for $19.95 each. She said she has roughly $35,000 to $40,000 in campaign debt, but has been trying to avoid asking supporters to pay it off. The former FBI attorney was named one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year for 2002 after she criticized the agency for ignoring her...

As the Democratic Party continues its slide into disrepute, there doesn't seem to be any bottom in sight. Here is the latest smear from the Dems: candidate Coleen Rowley has published a despicable slander of my own Congressman and friend, John Kline, depicting him as a Nazi. Click to enlarge: In a sane world, the pathetic Ms. Rowley would be forced to resign from the race in humiliation. That won't happen, however, as this kind of ridiculous smear is exactly what the Democratic Party is looking for in its candidates. The more outrageous, the better. Here is Congressman Kline's response...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. -- For better or worse, Coleen Rowley the candidate for Congress sounds a lot like Coleen Rowley the FBI whistleblower. The former FBI agent who scathingly exposed the bureau's failure to uncover the Sept. 11 plot is running for a House seat in Minnesota in 2006 as a Democrat, and she is employing her fearlessly blunt style on the campaign trail. "This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now," the 50-year-old Rowley recently told a group of rural Democrats in a garage in this small town south of the Twin Cities. "It could be worse than...

MONTGOMERY, Minn. (AP) - For better or worse, Coleen Rowley the candidate for Congress sounds a lot like Coleen Rowley the FBI whistleblower. The former FBI agent who scathingly exposed the bureau's failure to uncover the Sept. 11 plot is running for a House seat in Minnesota in 2006 as a Democrat, and she is employing her fearlessly blunt style on the campaign trail. "This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now," the 50-year-old Rowley recently told a group of rural Democrats in a garage in this small town south of the Twin Cities. "It could be worse...

OAKDALE, Minn. - Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, along with a state senator whose son died in Iraq, are headed to Texas this week to join a growing anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch. Rowley, now a Democratic candidate for Congress, and Sen. Becky Lourey will join a protest initiated by Cindy Sheehan, whose own son died in Iraq last year. Sheehan started the vigil Aug. 6, coinciding with Bush's summer vacation. She has said she won't leave until the president meets with her. Rowley said Tuesday that she and Lourey would leave Thursday and stay at least through Sunday,...

Home Project Activities Writing & Interviews Press Coverage Links Contact Contribute For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 22, 2004 11 FORMER AND CURRENT US AND UK GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ISSUE LETTERSUPPORTING DANISH WHISTLEBLOWER FRANK GREVIL Frank Grevil’s press contact is: Tom Clark tclark@tiscali.dkhome (+45) 4444 1343work (+45) 4452 6447mobile (+45) 4095 0574 or (+45) 6062 1763 OPEN LETTER TO THE DANISH GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC: We, the undersigned citizens of the United States and the United Kingdom, have recently come to learn of the criminal proceedings against our Danish fellow truth-teller, Mr. Frank Grevil. As his case has been presented to us, Mr. Grevil...

EDITOR'S NOTE:Media darling Coleen Rowley — notorious FBI whistleblower — announced Tuesday that she is running for Congress, from Minnesota. In March 2003, Ramesh Ponnuru explained on National Review Online that there was a lot less to her famous memos than headlines claimed. The full piece is reprinted below. Coleen Rowley, the celebrated "FBI whistle-blower," is back. She first came to public attention last summer, when she wrote a memo complaining that the FBI had ignored her pre-9/11 request for a warrant to search the computer of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has since been indicted as a 9/11 conspirator. (The memo...

Coleen Rowley, the FBI whistleblower who took on then-Director Robert Mueller over botched terrorism investigations, reportedly is considering a run for Congress. Rowley told Time magazine she'd decide within two weeks whether she'd take on GOP Rep. John Kline in the race for Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District seat. "What's the worst that could happen?" she said. "I lose and get humiliated." Rowley was named one of Time's three Persons of the Year for 2002, after she wrote a letter to Mueller contending that bureaucracy in FBI headquarters had hampered Minneapolis agents' investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui, who recently pleaded guilty to...

WASHINGTON - Coleen Rowley is considering a race for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, the former FBI whistle-blower told the Associated Press Monday. Rowley, 50, would run as a Democrat in the seat currently held by GOP Rep. John Kline. Kline's 2004 opponent, Teresa Daly, said she has not made a decision on whether to run again. Rowley, who retired from the FBI last year, said she's spoken to people to get their input, both inside and outside of politics, but has been put off by some suggestions that she get a "makeover." "I've butted heads with a few...

GENUINE GAL "I've butted heads with a few people - anyone who tells me I have to spruce up my hair and buy a new wardrobe - I haven't worn makeup since I was 21. You have to be authentic and genuine in serving the populace." - Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, who had urged the bureau to investigate terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, offended by suggestions that she would require a "makeover" before she could run for Congress in Minnesota as a Democrat.

What do you make of this story  about 14 Syrian musicians whose in-flight bathroom use was more coordinated than a synchronized swimming routine? It sounds a lot like the kind of dry run James Woods witnessed and which I recounted in this excerpt from The Face Of The Tiger. The other point it seems to confirm is the sheer constraints under which an advanced western society can wage war in an age of political correctness. It’s not just the weediness of Norm Mineta but, as I note below, a broader unwillingness to speak the truth about who it is who’s trying...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis FBI agent who called attention to the agency for failing to act before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks said she has decided not to run for Congress. Coleen Rowley told the Star Tribune in a story published Wednesday that she doubted she would fit into politics. She noted that as a youngster, "I only sold 16 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. I was the lowest in the whole troop. I don't have much salesmanship in me." Democratic activists had tried to persuade her to run against freshman Republican Rep. John Kline in the Second...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A group of Minnesota Democrats is pressing FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley to run for Congress, hoping the agent who exposed pre-Sept. 11 blunders at bureau headquarters can help them win another seat in the House. State Democratic Party Chairman Mike Erlandson said at least five party activists have spoken with Rowley in recent weeks about challenging freshman Republican Rep. John Kline, a retired Marine colonel. "Obviously, we're excited about the prospect of her taking a serious look at the race," Erlandson said. Rowley, 48, has not publicly disclosed her political leanings and declined to comment...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI agent who accused bureau headquarters of bungling chances to foil the Sept. 11 attacks, is criticizing the Bush administration for "whittling away our civil liberties." In an opinion piece published in today's Star Tribune, Rowley takes issue with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's assertion in a Twin Cities speech last month that America "is freer today than at any time in the history of human freedom." "Well, this American disagrees!" Rowley wrote.

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEW WASHINGTON -- Special Agent Robert Wright of the FBI's Chicago Division could not have been surprised by the bureau's reflexive reaction when he called a press conference June 2 at the National Press Club. He laid out an indictment of the FBI's "pathetic anti-terrorism efforts." One week later, the bureau responded like Pavlov's dog, secretly launching its fourth investigation of Wright. Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, as top congressional protector of whistle-blowers, learned of this and did not conceal his rage in a letter to FBI Director...

A scary story of militants, FBI bungling 06/08/03 Donna Marchetti Special to The Plain Dealer Imagine you are a Jewish woman living in the United States with your husband and children. On Friday night, you and your family have a traditional Shabbat dinner. On Saturday morning, you rise and don a chador, the black baglike garment worn by many Muslim women in the Middle East. Under your clothing, you have taped a small recording device to your skin. Your husband drops you off a few blocks from your destination. At the door of a mosque, or perhaps a convention...

"We should be deluding neither ourselves nor the American people that there is any way the FBI...will be able to stem the flood of terrorism that will likely head our way in the wake of an attack on Iraq."                                Coleen Rowley, FBI whistle-blower who exposed the bureau's                                 failure to act before Sept. 11, in a letter to the FBI director.

Same old FBI WASHINGTON -- It defies credibility that FBI Director Robert Mueller did not reply to an e-mail letter from agent Coleen Rowley, whose previous whistle-blowing earned her Time's person-of-the-year status. She was not alone. For an even longer period, Mueller ignored a written complaint from a U.S. senator. Last Tuesday, the very day a frustrated Rowley gave her latest whistle-blowing letter to two newspapers, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania confronted the non-responsive FBI chief face-to-face. Rowley contended that the FBI is unprepared to cope with a terrorist onslaught following a U.S. attack on Iraq. Specter was concerned...