Posted on 06/18/2008 2:22:36 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
American Accused of Spying for Iraq Faces Court The hearing for a Maryland woman accused of acting as an unregistered agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service began yesterday at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Ex-journalist and self-proclaimed anti-war activist Susan Lindauer, 48, was arrested in 2004 on charges of accepting $10,000 from the Iraqi government in 2002, according to the Center for Counterintelligence Web site. A reporter and a professor who have known Lindauer since the early 90s testified at Lindauer's hearing today. They reported that she was close to individuals in intelligence circles. She allegedly met with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a representative of the Libyan intelligence service and was seeking to support resistance groups fighting U.S. forces in post-war Iraq, according to the Center for Counterintelligence Web site...Parke Godfrey, an assistant professor at Toronto's York University, met Lindauer in the fall of 1900. He called her a "mercurial" character, at times highly enthusiastic about her work, at other times depressed. Godfrey said that before 9/11, Lindauer warned him not to take a job in New York City because she had a "premonition" that the city would be "dangerous, that there would be a big attack in southern Manhattan." He also said that Lindauer predicted a "war went very badly," referring to a protracted war in the Middle East……(Epoch)
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The mental stability of a former journalist and Congressional aide accused of acting as an agent for the Iraqi government was called into question — not for the first time — at a pretrial hearing in lower Manhattan yesterday.
Federal prosecutors made multiple references to psychiatric evaluations of Susan Lindauer that allegedly deemed her mentally unsound…The hearing hardly addressed the U.S. government’s indictment, which alleges that Lindauer, acting as an agent for Iraq between 1999 and 2004, met with Iraqi Intelligence Service officers in Manhattan, accepted thousands of dollars from the Iraqi government agents and even traveled to Baghdad.....(New York Metro)
I saw this:
Charged with conspiracy, acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government and taking money from a government that supports terrorism.
Wouldn't treason bring a harsher sentance? If not, never mind. If so, cant we charge her with treason too?
And which rat senators did she work for?
bump for publicity
.Parke Godfrey, an assistant professor at Toronto’s York University, met Lindauer in the fall of 1900.
Wow, she must be REALLY old.
Lindauer graduated from Smith College in 1985. She earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics. She worked as a business reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and editorial writer at the The Herald in Washington state, before joining the staff of U.S. News & World Report.[1]
She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon (1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary/speech writer.[1]
After leaving Capitol Hill, Lindauer claims she worked as a back-door channel between the United States and Libya to start negotiations for the Pan Am Flight 103 trial, working closely with American agencies from 1995 onwards. In the course of that effort, she claims she established special contacts in difficult to reach Arab countries, including Iraq, Egypt and Yemen, for the purpose of achieving cooperation on anti-terrorism. After Libya handed over the two men for the Pan Am Flight 103 trial, Lindauer claims she applied the same conflict resolution strategies to help persuade Iraq to accept the return of the weapons inspectors according to the terms and conditions demanded by the United States.[1]
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