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Full Text of F.B.I. Agent's Letter to Director Mueller ollowing is the full text from a Feb. 26 letter to Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. from Special Agent Coleen Rowley of the bureau's field office in Minneapolis.Minneapolis, MN 55401 February 26, 2003 FBI Director Robert MuellerFBI HeadquartersWashington D.C. Dear Director Mueller: In June, 2002, on the eve of my testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, you told me that you appreciate constructive criticism and that FBI agents should feel free to voice serious concerns they may have about senior-level FBI actions. Since then I have availed myself...

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 was sent to FBI director Robert Mueller and to two senators; to Rowley's apparent shock, it was leaked to the press.) Time magazine made her one of its "persons of the year," declaring that she was a woman of "ordinary demeanor but exceptional guts and sense." Now Rowley, a...

Celebrated FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley knows it was the fame which accompanied her national-security complaints about bureaucratic bumbling in the run-up to Sept. 11 — not the good will of FBI management — that kept her career alive. In the now-famous memo that blistered the FBI's hidebound senior management, Rowley took note of the "culture of fear" pervading the FBI, a climate that she said caused her many sleepless nights before she decided to act. In an open letter to Congress she wrote earlier this month, Rowley admitted that prior to her own experience, "I did not fully appreciate...

A terrifying and sobering group of news stories has appeared in recent days that suggest that individuals within the FBI had prior knowledge of 9/11 and suppressed it, both for personal gain and, in one case, because of horrific and apparently willful incompetence so great that it could even mask sympathy with terrorist elements. If so, this will become the worst single scandal in the history of the US government. Hopefully, it will encourage Congress and the Administration to carry out the radical reforms that we need to rehabilitate the dysfunctional family that the FBI has become, and get rid...

<p>The war on terror ended last week. There is no longer any real threat of terror attacks within the United States.</p> <p>At least I hope there isn't. If there is, we're in trouble.</p> <p>That's the only possible conclusion after the events of Thursday. The day began with FBI Director Robert Mueller telling a Senate panel it could take three years for the FBI to get a modern computer system. Compare this to World War II. By three years and nine months after Pearl Harbor, the United States had built a huge army, navy and air force. We had built the atomic bomb. We had knocked off the Nazis and overrun Japan. On the tech side, we had perfected radar and sonar.</p>

WASHINGTON -- Just days ago, FBI agent Coleen Rowley swam, biked and ran through a triathlon in less than 90 minutes, good preparation for a different kind of endurance event: her appearance Thursday at a Senate hearing. All the pressure lately seemed to take no toll on her athletic performance. Rowley, 47, beat all other women in her age group. The career FBI agent, who rocked official Washington with a memo to the boss alleging bureau bungling before the Sept. 11 attacks, was privately interviewed Wednesday by staff for the House-Senate committee holding hearings on the attacks. Rowley came to...

Posted May 28th, 2002 6:15 PMvillagevoice.com exclusive Mondo Washingtonby James Ridgeway U.S. Ignored Warnings From French key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads on Al Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing aside warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11. In a footnote to her May 21, 2002, letter to FBI director Robert Mueller, Coleen Rowley, the director of the FBI's Minneapolis office, cryptically alluded to the FBI supervising agent in Washington being given info on the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, by the French last summer, but choosing not to...

Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller<.b>An edited version of the agent's 13-page letter FBI Director Robert Mueller FBI Headquarters Washington, D.C. Dear Director Mueller: I feel at this point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity in the United States prior to September 11th. The issues are fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law enforcement mission and mandate. Moreover, at this critical juncture in fashioning future policy to promote the most effective handling of ongoing and future...