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Editor’s Note: Two government officials – one American and the other British – chose to speak truth to power during the Bush administration and were made to pay a price. The now ex-officials – Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Craig Murray, who was Great Britain’s ambassador to Uzbekistan – will tell their stories on Thursday evening, Oct. 22, at the Festival Center in Washington, D.C. [Details below.] We are all taught to tell the truth. But when some folks enter government service, they seem to claim an exemption. Truth telling becomes quaint, obsolete. Misfeasance and malfeasance get covered up, and we never seem to learn from our mistakes.
Worse still, governments start wars on flimsy pretexts; and this leads to what the Nuremberg Tribunal labeled “accumulated” evils — like torture. Although a chosen few in our Congress are briefed on such evils, we the people never get to know, UNLESS… …people of conscience have the integrity and courage to speak out. Our presenters will draw on their personal experience in this kind of speaking out; what it’s like; and what happened to them as a result: Coleen Rowley, as legal counsel/special agent in the FBI’s Minneapolis Bureau, became aware of the repeated — but unheeded — warnings her colleagues sent to FBI headquarters before 9/11. In a memorandum to the FBI Director and Congress she exposed many of the shortcomings and became persona non grata when a lawmaker gave the memo to the press. Time Magazine honored her by naming her Person of the Year in 2002. Craig Murray was Great Britain’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan when he discovered that his hosts were boiling people alive to extract “intelligence” on “terrorists.” He discovered to his dismay that his Foreign Office superiors thought that this was okay, so long as Craig didn’t do it. He left the Foreign Service and is now Rector of the University of Dundee — one of Britain’s leading universities, described by Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney as “having its head in the clouds and its feet firmly on the ground.” Rowley and Murray are past recipients of the annual Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. This forum is follow-on to the Oct. 21 event at American U. (see: http://tinyurl.com/ygm55pe) To Tell the Truth Coleen Rowley and Ambassador Craig Murray Date/Time: THURSDAY, October 22, 7-9 PM Cost: Free (but free-will offerings welcome) Sponsored by Speaking Truth to Power/Tell the Word If you only knew the things that make for peace. To comment to us by e-mail, click here. |
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