{"id":36570,"date":"2020-12-23T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36570"},"modified":"2020-12-23T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:36:49","slug":"karen-kwiatkowski-on-whistleblowing-and-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/23\/karen-kwiatkowski-on-whistleblowing-and-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Kwiatkowski on Whistleblowing and the War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortressonahill.com\">Fortress On A Hill<\/a>&#8221; podcast, hosted by veterans Danny Sjursen, Chris \u2018Henri\u2019 Henrikson, and Keagan Miller interview Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF Lieutenant Colonel (retired) and senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Center.  She discusses serving at the height of the Cold War, the huge collection of personalities and political bends of her time at the Pentagon, to include the neocons early in the Bush II presidency, her expertise on the Africa continent and U.S. regime change policies there, and her regrets around her role as a whistleblower.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Ffortressonahill%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Ffortressonahill%2FEp_88_final_draft-12-20-20.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortressonahill.com%2F2020%2F12%2F20%2Fkaren-kwiatkowski-ep-88%2F#darkOrLight-light&#038;shownotes-ffffff&#038;shownotesBackground-444444&#038;download-ffffff&#038;downloadBackground-003366&#038;subscribe-ffffff&#038;subscribeBackground-fb8c00&#038;share-ffffff&#038;shareBackground-1976d2\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"138px\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-2\" class=\"blubrryplayer\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Fortress On A Hill&#8221; podcast, hosted by veterans Danny Sjursen, Chris \u2018Henri\u2019 Henrikson, and Keagan Miller interview Karen Kwiatkowski, USAF Lieutenant Colonel (retired) and senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Center. She discusses serving at the height of the Cold War, the huge collection of personalities and political bends of her time at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36574,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570\/revisions\/36574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}