http://www.metafilter.com/tags/karenkwiatkowski Posts tagged with 'karenkwiatkowski' at MetaFilter. Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:32:42 -0800 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:32:42 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/31379/LA%2DWeekly%2Dinterviews%2DLt%2DCol%2DKaren%2DKwiatkowski <small><em>You gave your life to the military, you voted Republican for many years, you say you served in the Pentagon right up to the outbreak of war. What does it feel like to be out now, publicly denouncing your old bosses?<br /><br />Know what it feels like? It feels like duty. That’s what it feels like. I’ve thought about it many times. You know, I spent 20 years working for something that — at least under this administration — turned out to be something I wasn’t working for. I mean, these people have total disrespect for the Constitution. We swear an oath, military officers and NCOs alike swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. These people have no respect for the Constitution. The Congress was misled, it was lied to. At a very minimum that is a subversion of the Constitution. A pre-emptive war based on what we knew was not a pressing need is not what this country stands for.</em></small><br /> LA Weekly interviews<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=51202" title="With master’s degrees from Harvard in government and zoology and two books on Saharan Africa to her credit, she found herself transferred in the spring of 2002 to a post as a political/military desk officer at the Defense Department’s office for Near East South Asia (NESA), a policy arm of the Pentagon. Kwiatkowski got there just as war fever was spreading, or being spread as she would later argue, through the halls of Washington. Indeed, shortly after her arrival, a piece of NESA was broken off, expanded and re-dubbed with the Orwellian name of the Office of Special Plans. The OSP’s task was, ostensibly, to help the Pentagon develop policy around the Iraq crisis.">Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski</a>, retired, Pentagon insider present at the creation. Skeletons from the closet tumble. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31379 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:32:42 -0800 karenkwiatkowski kwiatkowski pentagon y2karl