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Karen Kwiatkowski (Karen Unger) was born on 24 September, 1960, is a Retired military officer and author. Discover Karen Kwiatkowski's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Born 24 September, 1960
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1960

Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, (born September 24, 1960) is an American activist and commentator.

She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency.

Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq.

1981

Kwiatkowski was raised as a Goldwater Republican, and registered Republican from 1981 until 1994.

1982

Kwiatkowski began her military career in 1982 as a Second Lieutenant.

She served at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, providing logistical support to missions along the Chinese and Russian coasts.

She also served in Spain and Italy.

Kwiatkowski was then assigned to the National Security Agency (NSA), eventually becoming a speechwriter for the agency's director.

1994

She joined the U.S. Libertarian Party in 1994 and continued that membership until 2011.

1998

After leaving the NSA in 1998 she became an analyst on sub-Saharan Africa policy for the Pentagon.

2000

While in the Air Force, she wrote two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001).

2001

Kwiatkowski was in her office in the Pentagon when it was attacked on September 11, 2001.

2002

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 appeared on the website of David Hackworth.

2003

Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

She has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003.

Born Karen Unger, Kwiatkowski was raised in western North Carolina.

She received an master's in government from Harvard University and an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska.

She has a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America; her thesis was on the overt and covert war in Angola, A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine.

Kwiatkowski left NESA in February 2003 and retired from the Air Force the following month.

In April 2003 Kwiatkowski began writing a series of articles for the libertarian website LewRockwell.com.

Her most comprehensive writings on the subject of a corrupting influence of the Pentagon on intelligence analysis leading up to the Iraq War appeared in a series of articles in The American Conservative magazine in December 2003 and in a March 2004 article on Salon.com.

In the latter piece ("The New Pentagon Papers") she wrote:

"I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president."

Kwiatkowski described how a clique of officers led by retired Navy Captain Bill Luti, assistant secretary of defense for NESA and former aide to Dick Cheney when the latter was Secretary of Defense, took control of military intelligence and how the "Office of Special Plans" (OSP) grew and eventually turned into a censorship and disinformation organism controlling the NESA.

Following the American Conservative and Salon articles, Kwiatkowski began to receive criticism from several conservative sources that supported President Bush's policies.

Michael Rubin of the National Review argued she had exaggerated her knowledge of the OSP's workings and claimed she had ties to Lyndon LaRouche.

Republican U.S. Senator Jon Kyl criticized her in a speech on the Senate floor.

On a Fox News program, host John Gibson and former Republican National Committee communications director Clifford May incorrectly described her as an anarchist.

Kwiatkowski responded by saying, among other points, that she had never supported or dealt with LaRouche.

She requested and received a written apology from Senator Jon Kyl for his false statements about her.

In addition to her writings Kwiatkowski has appeared as a commentator in the documentaries Hijacking Catastrophe, Honor Betrayed, Why We Fight and Superpower.

She has been critical of neoconservatism and has advocated for a non-interventionist foreign policy.

2004

Since February 2004 she has written a biweekly column ("Without Reservations") for the website MilitaryWeek.com.

She was a speaker on military and foreign policy at the party's national convention in 2004.

2005

She has been featured in a number of documentaries, including "Why We Fight" in 2005.

2008

She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas, (Variant Press, 2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom, (Cobden Press, 2010).

2011

She returned to the Republican Party in 2011, and entered politics with the hope of joining Ron Paul, Justin Amash and others in the House Republican Liberty Caucus.

She is endorsed by a past Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, as well as by a range of other fiscal and constitutional conservatives.

2012

In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary for Virginia's 6th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives and garnered 34% of the Republican vote on a constitutional and limited government platform.