AP: ACCUSED SPY IS COUSIN OF BUSH STAFFER

AP ^ | 3/11/04

[11th Earl of Mar]

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Today: March 11, 2004 at 16:15:43 PST

Accused Spy Is Cousin of Bush Staffer

By MATTHEW DALY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -

The woman charged with working for the Iraqi spy agency is a distant cousin of President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, and has held a variety of jobs in journalism and on Capitol Hill.

Susan Lindauer, 41, worked in the press offices of four Democratic members of Congress. She also worked for Fortune magazine, U.S. News & World Report, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Fox News.

Her father, John Lindauer, was the Republican nominee for governor in Alaska in 1998. His campaign unraveled because of charges of campaign finance violations to which he pleaded no contest.

Susan Lindauer is a 1985 Smith College graduate who describes herself as an anti-war activist.

Gary Gambill, editor of the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, an online publication dealing with Arab politics, said Lindauer sent him a copy of her 1998 deposition in litigation related to the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

In the deposition, she said Libyan officials had been wrongly accused of orchestrating the bombing and that Libya was entitled to "financial compensation for the economic harassment her people have endured because of these blatantly false accusations."

He said her arrest "raises questions about the validity of her deposition and its apparent attempt to exonerate Libya."

Lindauer started her congressional career in 1993 when she took a job with Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. The next year she went to work for a second Oregon Democrat in the House - Ron Wyden. Two years later she joined the staff of Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill.

After a brief stint at Fox News, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., for a few months in 2002.

Lofgren said in a statement she was shocked by the arrest.

"To my knowledge, this former employee had no access to sensitive information," she said. "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."

DeFazio said he has not spoken to Lindauer in more than 10 years. "We didn't part on the best of terms," he said.

Lindauer's neighbors in Takoma Park, Md., recalled her as friendly. Joao Luiz Vieire de Castro, 39, described Lindauer as "a regular American who walks her dog in the mornings and the afternoon."

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[mrsmith]

"By MATTHEW DALY ASSOCIATED PRESS "

http://www.saintanselms.org/school/Publications/CorWin03/pages/win03_11.html
"Matthew Daly, '80 covers the Pacific Northwest for the Associated Press, and he spoke about Journalism. Matthew graduated with honors from Amherst College and has been a reporter at the Charlotte Observer and Hartford Courant before joining the AP in 2000. He started his career as an editorial assistant at The Washington Post. Matthew is married and the father of two daughters. He lives in Silver Spring. "

What a disgusting resume. He's probably at Chris Dodd's beck and call for slanting any stories the "correct" way.

[Libertarian444]

This story has been in the press all day and not once was the fact she was a Democratic staffer mentioned in the headline. Five seconds after the press finds out she has a link to a distant relative of a Bush staffer, they can't wait to scream it from the headline. Unbelievable.

[Smartass]

HMMMM. I wonder who posted the bond?

[11th Earl of Mar]

My great grandfather's cousin was a democrat mayor of Detroit.

You commie-pinko-lib.

Go back to DU where you belong.

[Libertarian444]

That's nothing. Check out his brother's resume:

Brendan Daly, '80 spoke about politics and public relations. Brendan graduated from Duke University in 1984 and currently works as the Communications Director for the House Democratic Leader's office. Before joining Congresswoman Pelosi's office in 2002 Brendan coordinated media operations for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and for former U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Earlier, Daly worked as a spokesman for the Peace Corps from 1996 to 2000, and as press secretary to then-Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., from 1993 to 1996.

[Dan from Michigan]

Brendan Daly is his brother? I know that name real well from the HCI press releases.

[StriperSniper]

And how "distant" a cousin is she?

That's what gets me most about this, they don't explain the point that they feel is important enough to put in the headline. Oh well, the smear atempt or butt covering is out there.

[Typelouder]

She's also a distant relative of Noah.

[Libertarian444]

Check out the picture, caption and biographies at this link ("The Daly Clan"):

http://www.saintanselms.org/school/Publications/CorWin03/pages/win03_11.html

The brother of the AP reporter who tried to spin this against the Bush Administration works for Nancy Pelosi!

[MizSterious]

Amazing. Thanks for the ping. Dang, isn't there some way we can combat this kind of reporting? Apparently letter-writing isn't doing much good.

[Dan from Michigan]

Gotta be brothers. They look a lot alike.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Good catch.

I would never go on an interview without having a background check done on the person interviewing me.

Remember Bush Sr. slamming Dan Rather?

"Well Dan, I don't think you can judge a man's career by one event. Let's not forget that you walked off the set and left CBS news in the dark..."

[mrsmith]

Wow!

They're quite the "important" Washington family, sons of John Jay and Lu Corbett Daly.
What a cesspool.

[Libertarian444]

The caption on the picture says so! I can see it now:

{{{ring ring ring}}}
Matthew: Hello.
Brendan: Hey Matt, I need you to do a favor for me.....

[Dan from Michigan]

LOL. I missed the word "Clan" there.

[11th Earl of Mar]

and as press secretary to then-Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., from 1993 to 1996

And don't forget Gerry Studds... the gay congresscritter caught in a sexual relationship with an underage male staffer/intern.

[Libertarian444]

Good catch.

Thanks, but credit goes to mrsmith in #61 for originally posting the link

[World'sGoneInsane]

It's "Six Degrees of Separation". Here's a link, you type in an actor's name, it will link them to Kevin Bacon. It's election season. I wonder if the one they have for the President is computer generated.

Link to Oracle of Bacon

[CGVet58]

you hit the nail on the head, Earl - despite the stronger and more dangerous ties of having been a congressional staffer for a democRAT who until recently was running for President!!!, the liberal press decides to preempt this tie by counterattacking with a republicans-are-sinister connection of their own.

And the tragedy of it is, our pussy, girly-pants congressional republicans are gonna lay down for it, just like they have on memogate, on the filibusters, on hillary's lies about visiting 9-11 families, on the progress in iraq... Gawd, I just realized that i've a slew of other items i could call up to illustrate this point, and just became sick thinking of what weak asses we have representing the conservatives in congress.

When is it going to end?

[World'sGoneInsane]

Ping! Look, I did another link. Thanks...