American charged in Iraqi conspiracy [Andy Card's distant cousin]

CNN ^ | March 11, 2004

[optimistically_conservative]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- An American woman and self-declared antiwar activist was arrested Thursday on charges of conspiring with the Iraqi government in New York and Baghdad.

A federal indictment states Susan Lindauer in January 2003 delivered a letter to the home of a U.S. government official saying she had contacts with members of the Saddam Hussein regime "in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy."

[Peach]

What!

[Phantom Lord]

Lindauer, 41, is a former journalist and a one-time congressional staff member

The one sentence in the article not attaching this women to the Bush Administration, and they clearly leave it wide open as to who she worked for.

Not a single word about her work for multiple democrats in the House, and was Carol Mostly Fraud's press secretary!

[tiamat]

A conviction on the charge of acting as an unregistered agent of Iraq could bring a maximum 10-year sentence. Conviction on the conspiracy count could result in five years in prison.

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What?

If it is true, why so little? Isn't this treason?

[teletech]

Notice how they tie this right back to the Presidents administration but gloss over the fact that this TRAITOR is a RAT! Amazing but typical for the leftist CNN.

[Esther Ruth]

5 Years??? That's it - that's got to be a mistake - a joke, only advantage - they can watch her like a flee on a dog.

[TheExperiment_Is_Over]

Jeeezas! They mention Cards name so many times and yet they never mention her employer. There was a list here quite awhile ago that showed the donations of Islamic Foundations to various Democrate politicians, wasn't Brauns name on that list?

[Lucky2]

Another dirty rat snuffed out of her rat hole. The blood of our American soldiers is now on her hands as well.

[TheExperiment_Is_Over]

Democrate = DemocRAT

[optimistically_conservative]

Looks to me she is a self-absorbed self-important nut that hooked up with Iraqis right after 9.11 to head off reprisals.

Let's see if there is anything more than the letter offering to act as a go-between.

[mtbopfuyn]

Typical CNN.

[AmishDude]

I cannot name one of my second cousins. Not one.

[Dog Gone]

Half the story is about Card. CNN has to blame this on the Republicans. Nice start.

[CFC__VRWC]

NOW the story will explode all over the media. By tomorrow afternoon, Kerry will accuse George Bush himself of passing information to her, knowing she was an Iraqi spy. The media will of course dutifully amplify the charge.

[Kahonek]

"Half the story is about Card."

Yeah, but according to this, Card comes out smelling like a rose. He did the right thing. It doesn't sound malicious...

[quantim]

They mention Cards name so many times

8 times!

[xzins]

A distant cousin???

She must have felt she knew him enough to get a hearing.

Fortunately, Card did the right thing. Also, it is clear the woman works for the DemocRats.

[Dog Gone]

Oh, it's not malicious. It's just about spin. This story ties this woman to the Bush Administration in the eyes of the readers. I assume they're doing the same thing on TV right now, although I don't watch that channel.

Yet, here is the sentence which would tie her as a committed Rat operative if they wanted to.

Lindauer, 41, is a former journalist and a one-time congressional staff member.

They know her history. And they know what they want to emphasize.

[Saundra Duffy]

Traitors abound

[optimistically_conservative]

If DoJ was smart. They'll have a tie to why the Iraqis were so anxious to pay $10k (more ill-gotten Oil-for-Food $?) to Lindauer (of "not Lybia, it's Syria," Lockerbie fame) to get to Card right after 9/11.

Why would Iraq be worried? They didn't have anything to do with AQ and 9/11, right?

If I remember correctly, when relations of Clintons were dealing pardons and access for money, CNN didn't think it was too important.

[Big Horn]

She was on a dem. senators staff.

[Howie66]

I suppose that it would have been quite difficult for cnn to find that this liberal POS worked for FOUR different democRAT members of the House.

"She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. in 1993 and then Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994 before joining the office of former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun as press secretary in 1996. From March to May 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif."

I guarantee you that it took me less than 2 minutes to get this info. Then again we do all know where cnn has their priorities, don't we?

[FairOpinion]

Susan Lindauer's Work Record
The woman charged with spying for the Iraqi Intelligence service spent the 1990s working on Capitol Hill.
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
03/11/2004 1:48:00 PM

ONE SUSAN LINDAUER was arrested today on charges that she acted as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence service, and accepted $10,000 for the information she gathered. See the full story here.

Lindauer is identified as a "Takoma Park, MD woman" in news accounts, which allege that she made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in New York. She also traveled to Baghdad in February and March of 2002.

As of April 2002, a Susan Lindauer was in the employ of Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Lindauer previously worked in the press offices of Democrats Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon (from approximately May 1993 to January 1994), Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon (starting in January 1994), and Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois (from January 1996 to September 1996).

Lindauer also gave a deposition in the investigation of the 1998 Lockerbie airline terror bombing.

Moseley Braun says that she "doesn't remember" Lindauer. But a spokesman for one of the congressmen confirmed that it was "extremely likely" that the woman in question was a former congressional aide and press secretary for the four Democratic congressmen.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/842odgdw.asp

[Dog Gone]

I want to know why she wasn't charged with treason.

[Capt. Tom]

Conviction on the conspiracy count could result in five years in prison. Put it in perspective. Martha Stewart was not charged with insider trading she was convicted of lying to Federal prossecutors. Martha could get 20 years. - Tom

[FairOpinion]

"I'm an anti-war activist," she told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the FBI office in Baltimore.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/11/170426.shtml

[Grampa Dave]

A federal indictment states Susan Lindauer in January 2003 delivered a letter to the home of a U.S. government official saying she had contacts with members of the Saddam Hussein regime "in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy."

CNN has learned that the government official mentioned is White House chief of staff Andrew Card.

[Prodigal Son]

You know, a lot of people are focusing on the ties to Mosely Braun and other democrats (and perhaps here to Andy Card) but the thing that fascinates me and I'm sure has occurred to the media as well is- she's a journalist (at least a former one) and she wound up as a spy for Saddam.

Doesn't make the profession of journalism look too good.

Obviously, the media isn't going to cover that angle though. They'd tie this woman to John Kerry before they'd bring an indictment on themselves.

[NYCVirago]

You know, a lot of people are focusing on the ties to Mosely Braun and other democrats (and perhaps here to Andy Card) but the thing that fascinates me and I'm sure has occurred to the media as well is- she's a journalist (at least a former one) and she wound up as a spy for Saddam. Doesn't make the profession of journalism look too good.

It looks like her mistake was getting paid for it. There are plenty of journalists who do the same thing as her for free!

[Prodigal Son]

There are plenty of journalists who do the same thing as her for free!

No doubt. I personally suspect Robert Fisk of this and other treachery. I bet he can load an RPG into the launcher in a second's time, field strip and AK-47 with his eyes closed and call in a fire mission to the local jihadi mortar crew with the precision of any military FO. I'm serious. He fairly seethes with anger towards the West. I'd bet good money that he's accompanyied terrorists on raids- and not because he wanted to write about it.

[optimistically_conservative]

Here's the short take from my view.

I lefty, anti-American, conspiracy nut that considered herself important enough to meddle in Lockerbie and Iraq.

Lefty journalist and Democratic spokesperson? Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck ....

[Otto Krueger]

Hey, Castro's official newspaper thought she was great! From January 2003. Essentially it says she was the founder of a group, Citizens for Public Integrity, that praises 122 members of Congress who signed a letter protesting U.S. policy in Cuba. My Spanish isn't good enough to go beyond that.

[Paulus Invictus]

I could easily translate that ghastly commie tripe from Cuba, but I find it disturbing to see Fidel's Cuba getting an airing, even though we Freepers know what to think of those parasites polluting the planet's surface.

[Lawgvr1955]

Paging Bernard Goldberg. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[longshadow]

As of April 2002, a Susan Lindauer was in the employ of Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Lindauer previously worked in the press offices of Democrats Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon (from approximately May 1993 to January 1994), Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon (starting in January 1994), and Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois (from January 1996 to September 1996).

Notice the short employment periods.

That coupled with the bizzare act of contacting her cousin, Andrew Card, plus her strange behavior during her "perp walk", and I have come to the conclusion that she is likely mentally ill.

[tinamina]

Andrew Sullivan has a link to her full Lockerbie testimony. Syria did it, and her source could take you right to every person who was responsible in Damascus.

It IS interesting that Saddam's people would know she was a distant cousin of Andrew Card's and that she , or they, thought she could influence the administration's policy towards Iraq regarding 9/11.

[infowarrior]

"I'm an anti-war activist," she told WBAL-TV...

Sorry, Susie, but an anti-war activist doesn't take sides. You did. You're not an antiwar activist, but are a prostitute for the jihadis...

the infowarrior

[Otto Krueger]

Yeah, not worth the time.

I did slip, though. The Cuban commie-paper quoted Lindauer as praising those members of Congress who opposed U.S. policy vis a vis Iraq (not Cuba, as I wrote).