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American FBI agent and whistleblower (born )

Coleen Rowley (born December 20, ) is an American former FBI special agent and whistleblower. Rowley is well known for testifying as to concerns regarding the FBI ignoring information of a suspected terrorist during 9/11, which led to a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice.^[2]

Rowley was also a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota in She lost the general election to RepublicanincumbentJohn Kline.^[3] As of , she is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Early life and education

Rowley grew up in New Hampton, Iowa, and graduated valedictorian of her high school class in Her father was a letter carrier for 31 years.^{[citation needed]} She received her B.A.

degree in French and with honors from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, in In , she