Karen Kwiatkowski
(born 24 September 1960)
Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and former Pentagon desk officer who also served a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. She has an MA in Government from Harvard University, a PhD in World Politics from the Catholic University of America, and an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska.
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 which denounced a corrupt political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Kwiatkowski left NESA in February 2003 and retired from the Air Force the following month.
Her testimony is compelling in the documentary film the Oil Factor (wiki).
Get more biographical information at Wikipedia or SourceWatch.
Read her articles archive at Lew Rockwell.
Listen to an interview on AntiWar radio.
Many more links at the bottom of wikipedia.
