Tonight’s guests are Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
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Coleen Rowley:
Rowley, whose May 2002 memo described some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures, was named one of Time magazine’s people of the year in 2002. She
recently co-wrote a Los Angeles Times oped titled ”WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if if Frustrated investigators might have chosen to leak information that their superiors bottled up, perhaps averting the terrorism attacks.”
Article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rowley-wikileaks-20101015,0,5616717.story
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Ray McGovern:
McGovern recently wrote the piece ”How Truth Can Save Lives,” which states: “If independent-minded websites, like WikiLeaks or, say, Consortiumnews.com, existed 43 years ago, I might have risen to the occasion and helped save the lives of some 25,000 U.S. soldiers, and a million Vietnamese, by exposing the lies contained in just one SECRET/EYES ONLY cable from Saigon.
Article:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/081510a.html
McGovern was for two years an Army infantry/intelligence officer, then a CIA analyst for 27 years. He and Rowley now both serve on the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence nominating committee, which is giving this year’s award to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
Rowley, McGovern and Daniel Ellsberg released a statement on Wikileaks in June:
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2270
