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Oct 14, 2026
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The Minneapolis agents are reprimanded.
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Agent Coleen Rowley exposes the cover-up, named Time Person of the Year, then pushed out of the FBI.
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Not one person at headquarters fired, not one demoted.
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The supervisor who blocked the laptop search faced zero consequences.
Eric WalkerHOST
Um,
Tanner JohnsonHOST
Well, have you ever heard the name Colleen Rowley? Mm-mm.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
She was a former FBI agent and whistleblower.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
She was on Time magazines.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
I think she was one of three persons of the year that year as a whistleblower.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
Colleen Rowley stated a famous 2002 memo to the FBI director, Robert Mueller, that senior bureau management mishandled, downplayed, and glossed over critical pre-9-11 intelligence regarding Zacharias Moussaoui.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
and potential terror attacks.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
She says she criticized the FBI headquarters for failing to act on properly grasped urgent warnings and requests from the Minneapolis field agents who wanted to search Moussaoui's computer before September 11th, which never got done.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
like that everything's a conspiracy and the thing about that is if everything's a conspiracy which it's not there's some reality mixed in there are some conspiracies but if everything is a conspiracy then it doesn't let lend credibility to the things that are actually conspiracies so um i mean if you have hundreds of witnesses if you have photographic evidence um like i feel free to deep dive into this stuff um
Eric WalkerHOST
Well, have you ever heard the name Colleen Rowley? She was a former FBI agent and whistleblower.
Eric WalkerHOST
She was on Time magazines.
Eric WalkerHOST
I think she was one of three persons of the year that year as a whistleblower.
Eric WalkerHOST
Colleen Rowley stated a famous 2002 memo to the FBI director, Robert Mueller, that senior bureau management mishandled, downplayed, and glossed over critical pre-9-11 intelligence regarding Zacharias Moussaoui.
Eric WalkerHOST
And and potential terror attacks.
Eric WalkerHOST
She says she criticized the FBI headquarters for failing to act on properly grasp urgent warnings and requests from the Minneapolis field agents who wanted to search Moussaoui's computer before September 11th, which never got done.