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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[F.J. Mitchell]

Maybe she's a kissin' cousin of slick Willie. Time for some DNA evidence.

[Born Conservative]

So what. I have a cousin who is a vegan Green Party liberal. Does that mean I'm going to vote for Nader?

[mrsmith]

Nah, I skipped right over the brother. You had the good eye on that!

BTW: Matthews' father, mother and grandfather all worked for the WashPost. He never had to worry about where he'd be making the big bucks if he just toed the Democrat line.

[agrarianlady]

Remember, Rule #1. You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives. (Rule #2. You can pick your nose. You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friend's nose.)

Rule #3. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends on the couch.

[finnman69]

nice headline...MEDIA BIAS

[cyncooper]

This is beyond unbelievable.

This is so irresponsible and flat out evil. Evil to tie this spy to the Bush administration when she worked with dems and the media.

Evil.

I am disgusted and sickened by this constant twisting of facts and making innocent connections seem nefarious, yet evidently not probing the connections that do in fact raise eyebrows.

[DentsRun]

I don't know what (if anything) it means for one person to be a distant cousin of someone else. We're all distant cousins, one way or the other, and with the exception of those of us who spent the last 2,000 years in a hollow in West Virginia marrying our sisters, most of us can claim to be related to Caesar, Moses, Socrates, Homer and Alexander the Great. I mean each of us has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents. The number of people we are theoretically descended from gets very big very fast. Go back a hundred generations and we're descended from 1.3 times 10 raised to the 30th power. The big question isn't who are we related to, but who not are we related to.

[DBrow]

http://www.meib.org/articles/0007_me2.htm

http://www.agitprop.org.au/stopnato/20000601alocktshuk.htm

Lockerbie Links.

Google has lots of links about her, and if you try, minus out backgammon (there's another susan who plays lots of backgammon).

[Mo1]

Didn't take them long to find out this scoop now did it?

Amazing isn't it?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I hate the media. I HATE the media.

[molitor]

That's nothing. My brother worked for Democrats during the 60s and 70s but that does not make me a Democrat!

[molitor]

I hope you are kidding, since Dan from Michigan posts and is a real Republican!

[KC_Conspirator]

You can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family.

This person is a typical leftist hate-America democrat. Oddly enough my local radio stations have been pointing out her ties to Carole Mostly-Fraud all day.

[AuntB]

"half the country is a distant cousin to bush.."

Exactly. I've been doing the "family tree" thing. Found out I'm a "distant cousin" of his!! But you can bet the opposition will make hay of it, no matter how remote.

[Dan from Michigan]

I took it as sarcasm.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

So far, ten newspapers have run this headline as provided by the AP, and only one has changed it.

I've got contact information for those papers here: http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/001059.html#001059

[jamaly]

I've got a "distant cousin" who is serving a life sentence for murder. What significance does it have to my life? None. What's the significance of this "distant" familial relationship between Andrew Card and the traitor? None.

I have two distant cousins who danced in the "Thriller" video with Michaeal Jackson. But, I have NEVER been invited to Neverland Ranch. What good are distant cousins anyway???

[Prime Choice]

It's not like any of us can pick our relatives. We can pick our employees.

And that is precisely the point we should hammer down on the "mainstream" media who are trying to spin this to draw attention away from the traitorous Democrats and plant it on our President.

Just when I think the Left can't sink any lower, they dig a hole and dive in.

[hattend]

Rush just mentioned this article. He was laughing pretty hard about the overt press bias.

[Eva]

Shepherd Smith said that she even did a brief stint at FOX before being fired.