<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">KMEC Radio is proud to announce that Coleen Rowley will be our guest on Monday, May 4, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time.</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Coleen Rowley, an attorney and former FBI special agent and division counsel whose May 2002 memo to the FBI Director exposed some of the agency’s pre-9/11 failures, was one of three whistleblowers named as <em>Time</em> magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002.</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">In February 2003, Rowley again wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller questioning him and other Bush administration officials about the reliability of supposed evidence being used to justify the impending U.S invasion of Iraq. Under sharp criticism for her comments, Rowley stepped down from her legal position to go back to being an FBI Special Agent. She retired from the FBI in 2004 after 24 years with the agency.</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">In keeping with a project we've been doing here at KMEC Radio on professional responsibility with high-level whistleblowers from national security, national intelligence, and federal law enforcement, we're particularly happy to have Coleen Rowley on our May 4th show. Coleen Rowley taught ethics at the FBI and periodically still gives talks on ethical decision-making which relies on some of the very same slide messages as were used at the FBI before she retired. </p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Ms. Rowley has also have spoken at the Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Academy on their respective annual "ethics training" events. Also, she was involved for a couple of years in an "Intelligence Ethics" initiative spearheaded by Jan Goldman who is now retired and whom KMEC Radio will also contact about our project.</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">For more about Rowley, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleen_Rowley</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">KMEC Radio, your community radio station, broadcasts from our studio at the Mendocino Environmental Center. We are heard at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, California. We also stream live from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org">www.kmecradio.org</a></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Our shows are archived. We also post our shows to Youtube. </p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Shows may also be posted to the Public Radio Exchange or Radio4All, and they will soon be available as podcasts. KMEC Radio is supported by members like you. </p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">To become a member, please go to: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=N-S_ZbqblaIXsfc5XGvzVVeVQOSi3NlypUqNeufFtfecDST-Wcm1vD0NES4&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d99e4111b56ef0eae45e68b8988f5b2dd</p><p style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><br></p></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;"></span></div></div></body></html>