Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley disclosed Wednesday that she will retire at year's end, even as she warned that counter-terrorism agents now are being swamped with intelligence data and have "too many dots" to connect.
...She said the bureau's dramatic shift to focus its resources on terrorism has resulted in "a huge pendulum swing ... from the mistakes of overcomplacency before September 11. Now we're perhaps embarking on what I call the uncharted waters of massive intelligence collection."
..."Civilizations fall not because of external attack, but because of internal rot," Rowley said. "We have seen a lot of internal rot."
Rowley gained fame in 2002 with her accusations that FBI headquarters bungled a chance to thwart the Sept. 11 attacks when it blocked Minneapolis agents from obtaining a warrant to search the possessions of jailed terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui.
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