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Apparently the article is not on line or you would have linked to it, but the lead paragraph does tell the story about Andrew Card. I agree with you about the headline, although often space is a legitimate consideration. For that reason I personally care more about lead paragraphs and accompanying photos and their captions.

Surprisingly, the Chicago Tribune handled it very well, and the way that you would have liked your paper to (probably because ex-Sen. Braun is from Illinois):

Headline: "Connected woman held as Iraqi agent."

Story: "BALTIMORE - A woman who briefly worked as an aide to former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun was arrested at her suburban Washington home Thursday on charges of acting as an agent of the Iraqi intelligence agency and ploting to help resistance groups loyal to Saddam Hussein.

"Susan Lindauer, 40, who had claimed to be a target of covert surveillance and death threats, was released to a halfway house with orders from a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

"A white House spokesman said Thursday ngiht that Chief of Staff Andrew Card has cooperated with authorities investigating Lindauer, including reporting that his distant cousin made attempts to contact him in recent years.

"White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Card does not recall seeing or talking tro her since presidential inaugural events in 2001."

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This Tribune article doesn't say that she worked for several Democrats at the top of the article (it finally shows up in paragraph 15 out of 18 paragraphs).