1. Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency.
22 Facts About Karen Kwiatkowski
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Karen Kwiatkowski contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas, and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom,.
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Karen Kwiatkowski has been featured in a number of documentaries, including "Why We Fight" in 2005.
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Karen Kwiatkowski received an master's in government from Harvard University and an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska.
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Karen Kwiatkowski 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.
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Karen Kwiatkowski began her military career in 1982 as a Second Lieutenant.
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Karen Kwiatkowski served at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, providing logistical support to missions along the Chinese and Russian coasts.
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Karen Kwiatkowski was then assigned to the National Security Agency, eventually becoming a speechwriter for the agency's director.
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Karen Kwiatkowski was in her office in the Pentagon when it was attacked on September 11,2001.
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Karen Kwiatkowski left NESA in February 2003 and retired from the Air Force the following month.
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Karen Kwiatkowski has been critical of neoconservatism and has advocated for a non-interventionist foreign policy.
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Karen Kwiatkowski responded by saying, among other points, that she had never supported or dealt with LaRouche.
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Karen Kwiatkowski was raised as a Goldwater Republican, and registered Republican from 1981 until 1994.
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Karen Kwiatkowski joined the US Libertarian Party in 1994 and continued that membership until 2011.
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Karen Kwiatkowski was a speaker on military and foreign policy at the party's national convention in 2004.
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Karen Kwiatkowski 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.
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Karen Kwiatkowski is endorsed by a past Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, as well as by a range of other fiscal and constitutional conservatives.
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In February 2011, a Federal Election Commission filing declared the Friends of Karen Kwiatkowski were drafting her to run for the Virginia's 6th district US congressional seat in the 2012 election.
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Karen Kwiatkowski wrote a variety of opinion pieces geared directly to her 2012 House race, and was interviewed by both local and national media.
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Karen Kwiatkowski lives with her family in Mount Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is a farmer and part-time professor.
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Karen Kwiatkowski is married to Hap Kwiatkowski and has four children and seven grandchildren.
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Karen Kwiatkowski is a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.