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[dropcap]P[/dropcap]hilip interviewed Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who became a whistleblower about some of the FBI's pre 9-11 failures. She testified to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry and to the Senate Judiciary Committee and later was named, along with two other whistleblowers, as TIME Magazine's 2002 "Persons of the Year."
Rowley also publicly warned against launching the U.S. war on Iraq in 2003 explaining that it was not justified and would serve to increase terrorism. She retired from the FBI in 2004 and continues to write and speak about the costs of US "perpetual war" (waged all over the world) and how this "uber militarism" and fool's errand of seeking "full spectrum dominance" over the rest of the world has now "blown back" on Americans.
Philip A Farruggio is a contributing editor for The Greanville Post. He is also frequently posted on Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and Off Guardian sites. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen and a graduate of Brooklyn College, class of 1974. Since the 2000 election debacle Philip has written over 300 columns on the Military Industrial Empire and other facets of life in an upside down America. He is also host of the ' It's the Empire... Stupid ' radio show, co produced by Chuck Gregory. Philip can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net.
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