AP: Former FBI Whistleblower Rowley to join protest at Bush ranch

[dooner]

Former FBI whistleblower Rowley to join protest at Bush ranch

PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press, 8/16/05

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. (snip)

Rowley, a former special agent in the FBI's Minneapolis office, gained fame in 2002 for her criticism of FBI leadership. She said officials failed to act on information that cast suspicion on some Sept. 11 hijackers in the months before they carried out their attacks, and was later named one of Time magazine's people of the year for her efforts.

Now challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. John Kline, a Republican, Rowley has emerged as a harsh critic of the war in Iraq. (snip)



http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/12398783.htm

[rzemanfl]

1. Excellent news. A Time Magazine "person of the year" when all

the Repukes can produce is Larry Northern asswipe.

[MrBenchley]

2. I love it!

Good for Ms. Rowley....Hope people sit up and take more notice to her story...

[shance]

3. Way to go Colleen**********

n/t

[warrens]

4. Woah, this is REALLY taking off

If I can get some vacation time, I can get down there cheap on Southwest. Only 45 minutes from Austin, I think.

[acmejack]

12. two hours from here (Austin)

nt.

[patdem]

5. This is great..it is keeping the story alive and pertinent...I love these

people who are news worthy coming to the aid of Cindy...it is too good for words!

[RedEarth]

6. Great...this is starting to get big.....

[ixion]

7. quickly becoming a watershed moment

it's so great to see people coming together! :bounce:

[sonias]

8. Welcome to Collen Rowley and Sen. Becky Lourey

Keep them coming. Everyone is welcome to join forces with these families and this movement to stop the Iraq war.

Sonia

[cloud75]

9. History is taking place right before out eyes.

[Wizard777]

10. This is great! Cindy can use all the support she can get.

It's time for the Military Families to come out of their Bush Ordered Exile to Privacy. America want to give them some of that support Bush has been Hoarding. We want to hear what they have to say. They talk to us and not at us. We think what they have to say is important. How easy is this? Everyone who has lost a Loved One in the war in Iraq. SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! Now everyone else. Is this war worth it?


Well ignore the fact that, "is it worth it or was it worth it," are question best askeds of criminals and other who assimehieg risks on limited informantion. So Mr. Bush, Was it worth it? I think Cindy should have the common Courtesy to answer the President's Question if she hasn't already.

[stepnw1f]

11. Awesome!!!! (nt)

[frictionlessO]

13. Oh wow! that is great....

What incredible people this event is drawing in.

[Peace Patriot]

14. Holy Moley! This is great!

I hope somebody asks her, what the hell was Nicholas Berg's email address and password doing in Zacharias Moussaoui's computer? (...the one she was trying to get into, before 9/11, and, if she had gotten into it, would have led her to....Nicholas Berg? Yup. The man who ended up in U.S. custody in Iraq in May '04, interrogated for ten days, then dumped onto the street in the middle of the Falluja uprising, and was soon beheaded, with video--and whose death was used by Bushcons to deflect attention from the Abu Ghraib torture photos. Same guy. The "20th hijacker" just happens to have Nicholas Berg's email address and password? I've really been wondering about that.)

Colleen Rowley stood up to the Bushites when it was extremely dangerous to do so. Not that it's a cakewalk now. But I mean in the midst of the Hell that was 2002. Democrats in Congress anthraxed. Paul Wellstone's plane falls out of the air. Max Cleland gets Diebolded in the trial run for 2004. Many a dirty, Byzantine, murderous plot afoot--to smash world peace all the smithereens, slaughter tens of thousands of Iraqis, and loot billions and billions of dollars from poor and middle class Americans to fatten Halliburton's pockets, cover Enron's theft, and make the rich a whole lot richer. Serious fascist coup happening, and this woman stands up and blows the whistle on their obstruction of her investigation of the "20th hijacker." A very courageous woman.

I hope she runs for president and knocks the war Democrats on their asses. I'm sick to death of their ambition to run a better war.

[saigon68]

18. Like Limpy Loserman DINO senator from Conn

What a fucking loser

[cyberpj]

15. Maybe a good move for Sible to visit too? nt.

[CatholicEdHead]

16. Intresting, wonder how this will play in the MN 2nd district

as it is southern suburbia of the Twin Cities. They did vote in John Kline (who is only known for carrying the "football").

They do lean conservative so it will not take much distorted "anti-war" spin to change the race away from the issues.

[wellst0nev0ter]

25. Last Election It Was A Choice Between John Kline

And John Kline in drag. I almost boycotted my vote for Teresa Daly in Burnsville because the only difference between her and John Kline is that she's a deficit hawk. Otherwise she sure likes the war and eliminating estate taxes. She admitted contributing to John Kline campaign ferchrissakes. Perhaps if we ran a real opponent this time around we will see some results.

[goodhue]

33. indeed

I hope Daly stays out this time around.

[louis-t]

17. The move to private land, closer to Cuckoo-Banana ranch

will really launch this thing. It isn't half as big as it's about to be.

[DawgHouse]

19. Good for them! n/t

[DawgHouse]

20. Good for them! n/t

[goforit]

21. OMG!!!..Goooo Cindy...Gooo Rowley!!!....

I just love this!!!

To all MOMs in America!!!

All the power to ya!!!

[leftchick]

22. Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050817/ap_on_re_us/peace_mom_rowley

<snip>

Rowley, now a Democratic candidate for Congress, and Sen. Becky Lourey will join a protest initiated by Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey 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, sleeping in a tent at the site. They are paying their own way, she said.

Lourey's son, Matt Lourey, died May 26 when the Army helicopter he was piloting was shot down. A Democrat from northern Minnesota, Lourey was a consistent critic of the Iraq war — she authored a state Senate petition against it in 2003 — but was also supportive of her son's military career.

"Our children are dying and I think it's time to go support Cindy and see if Bush will come out and we can say, 'President Bush, what is the mission exactly?' Truth has been shifting all around and I think we need to rejoin the world community and not occupy another nation," Lourey said.

"But mostly we're just going to support Cindy," said Lourey, a Democratic candidate for governor in 2002.

[Spinzonner]

23. I think politicians should think twice before showing up at the site

It will add a political exploitation aspect to it which will be ripe for contra-marketing by the RW-ers.

And I think some of the politicians so involved will have mixed motives.

They can state and provide their support from a distance.

This should be about the dead soldiers and their survivors.

[wellstone dem]

24. This politician

Senator Becky Lowry lost a son in Iraq, she is a survivior. The FBI whistle blower is running for office for the first time, and has taken actions that show integrity in the face of extreme political pressure to act only in ways that support the administration. I don't think either of these "politicians" will detract from the purpose of this vigil. (Also Maxine Waters has been there without a negative effect that I'm aware of.)

[goodhue]

26. Lourey, Rowley to join vigil at Bush ranch

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5563795.html

Last update: August 17, 2005 at 6:58 AM

Lourey, Rowley to join vigil at Bush ranch

Dane Smith and Greg Gordon, Star Tribune

August 17, 2005

Two Minnesota moms at the forefront of the anti-Iraq war movement, one of whom recently lost a son in the fighting, are flying to Crawford, Texas, on Thursday to join Californian Cindy Sheehan's expanding, and increasingly controversial, protest near President Bush's ranch.

State Sen. Becky Lourey, whose son, Matt, was killed piloting an Army helicopter earlier this year, and FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, a recently declared DFL candidate for Congress who spoke out early against invading Iraq, said they will join the stakeout at "Camp Casey" -- named in memory of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, 24, who was killed more than a year ago.

The Sheehan vigil is becoming a lightning rod and rallying point for opposition to the war, Lourey and Rowley said, while a Republican state leader described Sheehan's expanding vigil as a media circus.

"I just want to go down there and tell her that her voice is necessary and that she is doing it for the right reasons," Lourey said. "I'm doing it as Matt's mother but also because I'm upset by our country. I'm an American, I'm a patriot, I love the Army, but I don't like what our country and our commander-in-chief are doing."

Rowley said she is going to "show solidarity with that cause," but that she intends to stay "in the background, for moral support" for Lourey. Rowley, who is running against Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline in the suburban Third District south of the Twin Cities, has a daughter in the Navy ROTC program at the University of St. Thomas.

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http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5563795.html

[myrna minx]

27. Wow. Ms. Rowley already had my respect, but wow, she

is really someone to behold. My condolences to Sen. Lourey. She truly is a Minnesota mom who has lived through a family's ultimate sacrifice. I'm proud to be a Minnesotan today. :cry:

[bemildred]

28. Dayton-Area Residents To Join Protest Near Bush’s Ranch

DAYTON, Ohio -- Three Dayton-area residents said they plan to fly to Texas on Sunday to join a woman who's leading a protest of the Iraq war outside President George W. Bush's ranch.

Steve Fryburg of Bellbrook, Deb Hagerman of Beavercreek and Beth Lerman of Dayton are all members of the group Military Families Speak Out.

Fryburg is an Army veteran whose son served in Iraq, Hagerman's husband is a reservist and Lerman's oldest son is a Gulf War veteran.

They said they want to lend their support to Cindy Sheehan, who lost her 24-year-old son in Iraq last year.


WOHIO.TV

[goodhue]

29. kick

[autorank]

30. FBI Whistleblower and Another Mother to Join Vigil in Texas

Updated: 01:06 PM EDT

Anti-War Protest Moving Closer to Bush Ranch
FBI Whistleblower and Another Mother to Join Vigil in Texas

By ANGELA K. BROWN, AP
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050816181409990015&ncid=NWS00010000000001

CRAWFORD, Texas (Aug. 17) - War protesters camping in roadside ditches near President Bush's ranch have accepted a neighbor's offer to stay on his property, and their vigil will be joined this week by FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley and by another mother whose soldier-son died in Iraq.

The neighbor, Army veteran Fred Mattlage, said he sympathizes with participants in the vigil started Aug. 6 by Cindy Sheehan, who lost her 24-year-old son in Iraq last year. The makeshift camp off the winding, two-lane road to Bush's ranch has angered residents and snarled traffic.

"I just think people should have a right to protest without being harassed," Mattlage told The Associated Press. "And I'm against the war. I don't think it's a war we need to be in."

[goodhue]

31. Not just another mother . . .

Becky Lourey is no stranger to the campaign trail. First elected to the House in 1990, she moved up to the Senate in 1996, after defeating an incumbent fellow DFLer in a tightly contested primary fight. Lourey, who runs a small family farm and a consulting business from her northern Minnesotan home in Kerrick, says she's drawn to public office by a strong sense of social justice.

"I've spent my whole life helping people reach their full opportunity, helping them become independent, contributing citizens. And it is so important that everyone have that opportunity. And that's why I'm running for governor," she says.

Lourey is known for being unabashedly liberal. She's raised 12 children - eight adopted - and as chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Early Childhood and Family Education has focused her message on that issue. She says providing safe and nurturing environments NOW will pay large dividends later as children grow into productive citizens.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200204/30_khoom_lourey/index.shtml

[underpants]

32. Sibel? OH Sibel?????

where are you?