Pentagon whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski interview

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Karen shares her insights in this almost 1-hour audio (there's about 10 minutes of unrelated talk at the beginning), on the USS Liberty Massacre Radio Hour.  Listen here:  http://renseradioarchives.com/archives/USS_Liberty/091318.mp3



Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force (USAF) lieutenant colonel, an American activist, author, and commentator, known as the Pentagon whistleblower who exposed a "neoconservative coup," and a "highjacking of the Pentagon," and also known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

She began her military career in 1978, and as a second lieutenant served at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, providing logistical support to missions along the Chinese and Russian coasts. Later serving in Spain and Italy, she was then assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA), eventually becoming a speechwriter for the agency's director.

After leaving the NSA, she became an analyst on sub-Saharan Africa policy for the Pentagon. From May 2002 to February 2003, she served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia directorate (NESA). While at NESA, she wrote a series of anonymous articles—"Insider Notes from the Pentagon"—that appeared on the website of David Hackworth. Karen spent her final four and a half years in uniform working at the Pentagon.

While in the USAF, she wrote two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001). She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas (Variant Press, 2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom (Cobden Press, 2010). She has been featured in a number of documentaries, including Why We Fight (2005) and has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003.

Karen is a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and does not subscribe to the U.S. government's 9/11 conspiracy theory:

"I believe the Commission failed to deeply examine the topic at hand, failed to apply scientific rigor to its assessment of events leading up to and including 9/11, failed to produce a believable and unbiased summary of what happened, failed to fully examine why it happened, and even failed to include a set of unanswered questions for future research. It is as a scientist that I have the most trouble with the official government conspiracy theory, mainly because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or physics. The collapses of the World Trade Center buildings clearly violate the laws of probability and physics."

In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte in the GOP primary for Virginia's 6th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and garnered 34% of the vote on a constitutional and limited government platform.

Karen holds advanced degrees from Harvard University, the University of Alaska and a Ph.D. from Catholic University in world politics, and serves as a part-time adjunct faculty at a local community college.

She and her husband of 30 years are cattle farmers in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and have four children and five grandchildren.