Karen Kwiatkowski

Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel who served in the Pentagon’s Near East South Asia policy office in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, left that office a month before the war began and retired from the Air Force weeks later, becoming a prominent whistleblower on how prewar intelligence was shaped. A paleoconservative and libertarian anti-interventionist, she writes the Without Reservation Substack and is a recurring guest on Judging Freedom.