ht training prior to September 11, 2001.
Curtis Verschoor (18) maintains that Rowley's emergence as a whistleblower was a direct result of the failure of the FBI to foster an open discussion of differences. Rowley did not originally intend to go public about her accusations, but was forced to do so when the U.S. Congress learned from an FBI lead that Rowley's memo was in circulation within the organization.
Editors of the Chicago Tribune (1) noted that Rowley was named by Time in December 2002 as a "Person of the Year" along with two other whistleblowers at WorldCom and Enron. The editorial went on to state that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft assured Rowley and the public that she would not lose her job as a result of her memo. However, there is no doubt that the Rowley memo ruffled more than a few bureaucratic favors in the executive offices of the FBI and that Director Mueller and his senior aides were placed in a difficult position as a consequence of Rowley's memo and her later testimony before Congress (Ratnesar and Weisskopf, 25).
Rowley also charged that the FBI failed to team up with other federal agencies such as the CIA that could have gathered more intelligence to buttress the case against Moussaoui who had been taken into custody by the Minneapolis FBI office prior to September 11, 2001. T
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