Coleen Rowley
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"Coleen Rowley" is an Americans/American former FBI agent and whistleblower, and was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) candidate for United States House of Representatives/Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, one of eight Minnesota Congressional Districts/congressional districts in Minnesota in 2006. She lost the general election to Republican Party (U.S.)/Republican incumbent John Kline (politician)/John Kline.

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HQ (headquarters) personnel never disclosed to the Minneapolis agents that the Phoenix Division had, only approximately three weeks earlier, warned of al Qaeda operatives in flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes.

I never really anticipated this kind of impact.

I never really anticipated this kind of impact when I wrote this letter to Director Mueller two weeks ago.

It puts a human face on this issue. Many people, if they don't have a personal connection to the troops, it's so easy for this to become a discussion that lacks seriousness and urgency. I think it's good to show that there are real people that are being affected.

Was misrepresenting what Minneapolis was telling them.

Trying to tie this in with terrorism is a little overblown because you can't communicate that kind of information over a non-secured system that goes outside the FBI anyway.

Well, I will quickly correct the record that they are not anti-war extremists. The majority of people I saw in Crawford were actually veterans' groups.

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.