Posted on 03/11/2004 12:57:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:06:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American citizen arrested Thursday on charges of spying for Iraq worked briefly as press secretary for a California congresswoman.
Susan Lindauer, 41, who prosecutors said accepted $10,000 for working for the Iraqi Intelligence Service before and after the U.S. invasion, was employed by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, for two months in 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Some humor here. Note that Rep. Lofgren is shocked to hear of the arrest, but not that her press-secretary is a traitor.
Press Release
Statement of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren on Ms. Susan Lindauer
March 11,2004
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) issued the following statement today regarding the arrest of Ms. Susan Lindauer.
“I was shocked to learn from news reports today that Ms. Susan Lindauer, who served on my staff for an eight week period in 2002, was indicted for ‘conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service.’ Ms. Lindauer served as Press Secretary in my Washington, D.C. office from March 11, 2002 until May 14, 2002. To my knowledge, this former employee had no access to sensitive information. Obviously, I had no reason to think that she was involved in this alleged activity. I have had no further contact with her since she left my employ. If there is any way I can assist with the investigation, I will happily do so.”
House Select Committee on Homeland Security
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, Research & Development
Subcommittee on Rules
Subcommittee on the Courts
The Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee
Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
Subcommittee on Research
Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards
Bills Sponsored by Representative Lofgren in the 108th Congress
Bills Co-sponsored by Congresswoman Lofgren in the 108th Congress
Bills Sponsored by Representative Lofgren in the 107th Congress
Bills Co-sponsored by Congresswoman Lofgren in the 107th Congress
Thank G_d for the Dems; still a safe seat even through a traitor was on staff.
Like this . . . Zoe Lofgren-D
Thanks in advance.
NEW YORK (AP) -- An American woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, accepting $10,000 for her work, prosecutors said Thursday.
Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Maryland, and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.
She was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and with engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein.
According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Lindauer made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in New York.
There, she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence arm of the Iraqi government that allegedly has played a role in terrorist operations, including an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush, the indictment alleged.
The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002, where she allegedly met with Iraqi intelligence officers.
Her acceptance of the money and her willingness to bring it home from Iraq violated a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors international terrorism, the government said. The indictment did not specify a motive.
The charges against Lindauer were included in an expanded indictment in the case against Raed Rokan Al-Anbuge, 28, and Wisam Noman Al-Anbuke, the sons of Iraq's former liaison with United Nations weapons inspectors.
The brothers were charged last year with acting as Iraqi government agents and conspiring to do so, prosecutors said. The indictment said Lindauer conspired with the brothers.
On January 8, 2003, prosecutors said, Lindauer tried to influence U.S. foreign policy by delivering to the home of a U.S. government official a letter in which she conveyed her access to and contacts with members of Saddam's regime. The official was not identified in the indictment.
The United States invaded Iraq last March, and the government fell the following month.
The indictment said Lindauer met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. It said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.
According to the indictment, she continued to correspond with the undercover agent until last month and followed the agent's instructions to leave packages on two occasions in August in "dead drop" operations.
Lindauer, who has not yet been assigned a defense lawyer, faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if she is convicted, prosecutors said.
Susan Sachs writing in the NY Times,: February 29, 2004, reported
"In the high-flying days after Iraq was allowed to sell its oil after 10 years of United Nations sanctions, the lobby of the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad was the place to be to get a piece of the action.
"That was where the oil traders would gather whenever a journalist, actor or political figure would arrive in Iraq and openly praise Mr. Hussein. Experience taught them that the visitor usually returned to the hotel with a gift voucher, courtesy of the Iraqi president or one of his aides, representing the right to buy one million barrels or more of Iraqi crude." [end excerpt]
I wonder if she and her Rat ex-bosses visited Iraq. What about Bonior, McDermott, et al., Sean Penn? Bonior probably got a lot more than one million barrels; to wit, Bonior urged lifting the sanctions on Iraq, claiming they had killed some 700,000 children.
A googled source reminds us
"George Galloway, an outspoken member of the governing Labor Party, received an annual cut from Iraq's exports under the oil-for-food program worth approximately $585,500."
How is it obvious?
Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer Deposition 4 December 1998
Last month, MEIB reported that Dr. Richard Fuisz, a major CIA operative in Syria during the 1980s, met with a congressional staffer by the name of Susan Lindauer in 1994 and told her that that the perpetrators of the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland were based in Syria [see "The Lockerbie Bombing Trial: Is Libya Being Framed?" Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, June 2000]. One month after their meeting, the Clinton administration, which holds Libya responsible for the bombing, placed a gag order on Dr. Fuisz to prevent him from publicly discussing the issue.
While Dr. Fuisz is still unable to comment on this matter because of the gag order, MEIB has obtained a copy of a formal deposition filed by Lindauer in 1998 in which she recounts this conversation in detail. This deposition (see below) has been submitted to the court in which two Libyan suspects are currently on trial and to U.N. officials, who have attempted to persuade the Clinton administration to lift the gag order on Dr. Fuisz.
Lindauer says that she has been subject to intense surveillance, threats, and attacks since she began meeting with Libyan officials in 1995 to discuss her knowledge of the Lockerbie bombing.
Lindauer said Moseley-Braun defends affirmative action policies because these policies help women and minorities get more jobs and education. She said the senator will speak about women and minorities, who benefit most from these policies, because they provide strength and perseverance to the workforce that otherwise would be lacking.
Three West Coast Democrats have tapped media veterans to fill Press Secretary slots in their Capitol Hill offices, Roll Call reported. Oregon's Peter DeFazio chose Susan Lindauer, a reporter for U.S. News & World Report in 1990-91....
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) issued the following statement today regarding the arrest of Ms. Susan Lindauer.
“I was shocked to learn from news reports today that Ms. Susan Lindauer, who served on my staff for an eight week period in 2002, was indicted for ‘conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service.’ Ms. Lindauer served as Press Secretary in my Washington, D.C. office from March 11, 2002 until May 14, 2002. To my knowledge, this former employee had no access to sensitive information. Obviously, I had no reason to think that she was involved in this alleged activity. I have had no further contact with her since she left my employ. If there is any way I can assist with the investigation, I will happily do so.”
Great point, what a stupid Lie Braun is trying to foist on the American people (not that its her first) that she doesn't remember her own press secretary. Its not like she served a 2nd term or anything!
Susan Lindauer, 41, center, in this image from video, who was arrested Thursday, March 11, 2004, on charges she served as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service before and after the U.S. invasion, is escorted by law enforcement agents outside the Baltimore FBI (news - web sites) office. Lindauer, a former journalist and one-time press secretary for four members of Congress, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md. (AP Photo/WBAL-TV)
Here's my first Freep, outside of Lofgren's local office in December of 1998
From the Federal Indictment:
COUNT ONE
Conspiracy to Act as Unregistered Agents of a Foreign Government
OVERT ACTS
3. In furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect the illegal object thereof, the following overt acts, among others, were committed in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere:
/snip/
k. From on or about February 23, 2002 through on or about March 7, 2002, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” traveled to Baghdad, Iraq, through Jordan, as a guest of the IIS.
l. From on or about February 23, 2002 through March 7, 2002, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met with several IIS officers in Iraq, including at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, and received cash payments of approximately $5,000.00.
m. On or about March 8, 2002, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met in Manhattan upon her return from Iraq with an officer of the IIS and accepted payment from the IIS for lodging and meal expenses in the amount of $200.00.
/insert/
March 11, 2002 until May 14, SUSAN LINDAUER served as Press Secretary, Washington, D.C. office, to US Representative Zoe Lofgren (Dem-CA)/end insert/
n. On or about January 8, 2003, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” delivered, to the home of an United States Government official, a letter in which LINDAUER conveyed her established access to, and contacts with, members of the Saddam Hussein regime, in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy.
o. On or about June 23, 2003, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met in Baltimore, Maryland, with a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) acting in an undercover capacity as a member of the Libyan intelligence service seeking to support resistance groups in post-war Iraq (the “UC”), and discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups operating within Iraq.
Hey, I'm living in SF, now...
Cheers to your cat.
Naw, it's great to have you local!
Dusty (Kitty Mustafa) says "Hi"
And will be dutifully reported by the Wash Compost, NY Slimes, etc.
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