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How Susan Lindauer Was Caught
NRO ^ | 11 March 2004 | Byron York

Posted on 03/11/2004 3:07:02 PM PST by optimistically_conservative

Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war.

According to the indictment charging Lindauer with conspiracy to spy for Iraq, that meeting took place on June 23, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment charges that Lindauer and the agent "discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support [resistance] groups operating within Iraq."

The indictment says Lindauer met with the agent again on July 17, 2003, to discuss the same topic. Then, according to prosecutors, the undercover FBI agent instructed Lindauer to leave a set of documents at a designated spot in Takoma Park, Maryland, the suburb of Washington, D.C., where Lindauer lives. The indictment says Lindauer left the requested documents on August 6, 2003, and left another set of documents on August 21, 2003.

During the period from June 2003 until February 2004, the indictment alleges, Lindauer remained in regular e-mail contact with the FBI undercover agent, whom she believed was working for Libya.

According to the indictment, Lindauer's efforts to assist the Iraqi resistance came after years of contacts with Iraqi intelligence agents. The indictment says those contacts began in October 1999, when Lindauer first met with Iraqi agents in New York.

The indictment alleges that Lindauer met with a representative of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in New York on September 19, 2001, just eight days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The indictment charges that not long after 9/11, Lindauer and her co-conspirators gave Iraqi intelligence agents information about Iraqi expatriates in the United States. Prosecutors say Lindauer usually met with Iraqi intelligence agents in New York and was reimbursed for her travel and meals.

The indictment says Lindauer traveled to Baghdad in February 2002 as a guest of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Prosecutors say Lindauer met with several Iraqi agents during the trip. She also allegedly accepted about $5,000 in cash from the agents.

In all, Lindauer is charged with receiving about $10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

In one intriguing passage, the indictment charges that on January 8, 2003, Lindauer "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." The indictment gives no further details and does not include the identity of the government official, or whether that official reported the incident to authorities.

Lindauer is a former journalist for U.S. News & World Report, as well as for Fortune magazine and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She also worked as a spokeswoman for then-Representative (and now Senator) Ron Wyden of Oregon, as well as former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: optimistically_conservative
Death to Traitors!!
61 posted on 03/11/2004 3:42:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: optimistically_conservative
Conspiring with anti-coalition forces is a treasonous, death penalty case.
62 posted on 03/11/2004 3:43:37 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: teletech
I am surprised she did not arrange the Democrat visits to Iraq? Didn't we see a couple of them go kiss Saddam's behind shortly before the war?
63 posted on 03/11/2004 3:44:32 PM PST by oldironsides
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To: Steve_Seattle
Okay, now I gotta go scrub my mind's eye with a Brillo™ pad. Thanks a bunch.
64 posted on 03/11/2004 3:46:59 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet ("Lashing out" at Democrats since 1990.)
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To: Dog Gone
Guilty indeed. And may she be adequately persuaded to reveal any other traitors she happens to know.
65 posted on 03/11/2004 3:49:17 PM PST by niteowl77 (the seriousness of the charges demand a full investigation into every congressperson she worked for)
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To: oldironsides
I am surprised she did not arrange the Democrat visits to Iraq? Didn't we see a couple of them go kiss Saddam's behind shortly before the war?

I think the RATS are more deeply involved than we know.

66 posted on 03/11/2004 3:53:57 PM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT!)
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To: edskid
Maybe it's situations like these the reason the otherwise despicable Patriot Act was hatched.
67 posted on 03/11/2004 3:54:48 PM PST by txhurl
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To: teletech
DemocRATS are PURE EVIL!!!

No, not pure, they're not that good at ANYTHING.

68 posted on 03/11/2004 3:55:47 PM PST by highlander_UW
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To: Carolinamom; Ragtime Cowgirl
In a deposition she gave in connection w/the Lockerbee case, she identified herself as "a world citizen".)

Fine by me. That makes her an enemy combatant.

Time to thoroughly investigate her contacts among both the news media and her coingressional employers. No telling ho many of them are also on the payrolls of foreign intelligence services.

69 posted on 03/11/2004 3:56:00 PM PST by archy (Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT! Done dirt cheap! Neckties, contracts, high voltage...Done dirt cheap!)
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To: RUCKUS INC.
Hanging for spies...
70 posted on 03/11/2004 4:01:05 PM PST by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: RetroSexual
"Good job, G-Men!"

Agreed. And welcome to FR.
71 posted on 03/11/2004 4:02:00 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: DCPatriot
yep...if any of the dems become afraid she will talk and name names, she will die in jail well before a jury is picked......can you say "james McDougal"...i knew you could

Or at least I think his name was james. don't know if susan was bill's or hill's plaything, but she darn sure got the message to keep her yap shut didn't she??
72 posted on 03/11/2004 4:05:47 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: All
This kind of googled info may have already been posted. If so, here is some of it again.

From the September 1993 MediaWatch

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. . . .[end excerpt]

Signers of the PEACE PLEDGE: TO STOP SPREAD OF ANTI-TERRORIST WAR TO IRAQ

BY LOCATION

. . .

Signers (by location) Australia Brazil Canada Costa Rica Germany Italy Japan Netherlands Switzerland U.S.:

. . .

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ALASKA

. . .

MARYLAND

. . .

Susan Lindauer, Takoma Park, MD, US

. . . . [end excerpt]

from WWFOR Iraq Interest Network, Seattle Community Network

There are hundreds of signers along with the traitor. I'd drag everyone of them in for questioning.

The traitor is not alone. Here again is why we must make the actions of the pro-Communist "anti-war," "peace" groups of the Vietnam era a major issue in the war and presidentail campaign. The traitors are still at it.

73 posted on 03/11/2004 4:07:43 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
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To: Callahan
everytime someone mentions Halliburton they start with Dick Cheny's former company. Do you suppose that news articles will start out with as a former spokesperson for a number of Democratic people, Ms Lindauer, spied etc etc. Or do you think when mentioning Ron Wyden they will say, "As the former employer of indicted spy, Senator Wyden is proposing the following plan." Not.
74 posted on 03/11/2004 4:08:24 PM PST by q_an_a
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To: txflake
Susan Lindauer (D - Earth) can consider herself fortunate that there is no Vengeful Father of an American Soldier in Iraq Act.
75 posted on 03/11/2004 4:10:11 PM PST by niteowl77 (the seriousness of the charges demand a full investigation into every congressperson she worked for)
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To: habs4ever
ping
76 posted on 03/11/2004 4:11:12 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you are driving the monkey to the airport!)
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To: optimistically_conservative
When's her execution?

She's just another communist responsible for the deaths of American citizens. She deserves to go live with jimmy carter.
77 posted on 03/11/2004 4:12:27 PM PST by steplock (http://www.gohotsprings.com)
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To: optimistically_conservative
WHOA !!!

When were the first anthrax letters mailed ???

78 posted on 03/11/2004 4:12:46 PM PST by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: optimistically_conservative
This is sick, the left are truly traitors.
79 posted on 03/11/2004 4:16:22 PM PST by Porterville (Play the cards you were dealt or crawl in a whole and die; Vote for Bush or go away.)
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To: ServesURight
What did she say? Vote for Kerry maybe.
80 posted on 03/11/2004 4:17:05 PM PST by Big Horn (A waist is a terrible thing to mind.)
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