[11th Earl of Mar]

This woman is a dyed in the wool Democrat, but the AP chooses to ties Bush to her because she is a DISTANT cousin of one of his employees.

[PISANO]

By tomorrow this story will be reported thus: ANDY CARD'S cousin has been indicted for illegal ties to Saddam Hussien.

[plain talk]

She's an extremist Democrat tied to four extreme Democrat congresscritters. End of story. And yet the AP chooses to report that she's a distant cousin to someone in the WH. Who cares? We are all distant cousins to everyone depending on one's definition of 'distant'.

[Right_in_Virginia]

AP: ACCUSED SPY IS COUSIN OF BUSH STAFFER

OMG...this is series.

[FairOpinion]

"This woman is a dyed in the wool Democrat, but the AP chooses to ties Bush to her because she is a DISTANT cousin of one of his employees."


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Why don't I see in the title, "A Democrat Congressional Staffer" arrested for spying for Saddam's government??? THAT would be more to the point.

"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."

[Drango]

In the Seattle TV news tonight, they highlighted the point that she had links to BOTH Republicans and Rats.

[Tempest]

Funny a distant cousin of an employee. Yet she has direct ties to many democrats. Guess what title the AP decided to go with.

[mewzilla]

FWIW, from this link:

MAY 2000

SUNDAY HERALD, SCOTLAND: A FORMER CIA agent who claims Libya is not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is being gagged by the US government under state secrecy laws and faces 10 years in prison if he reveals any information about the terrorist attack. United Nations diplomats are outraged that the US government is apparently suppressing a potential key trial witness. Diplomats are now demanding that the CIA agent, Dr. Richard Fuisz, be released from the gagging order. Fuisz, a multi-millionaire businessman and pharmaceutical researcher, was, according to US intelligence sources, the CIA's key operative in the Syrian capital Damascus during the 1980s where he also had business interests. One month before a court order was served on him by the US government gagging him from speaking on the grounds of national security, he spoke to US congressional aide Susan Lindauer, telling her he knew the identities of the Lockerbie bombers and claiming they were not Libyan. Lindauer, shocked by Fuisz's claims, immediately compiled notes on the meeting which formed the basis of a later sworn affidavit detailing Fuisz's claims. One month after their conversation, in October 1994, a court in Washington DC issued an order barring him from revealing any information on the grounds of "military and state secrets privilege".

When contacted by the Sunday Herald ht, Fuisz said when asked if he was a CIA agent in Syria in the 1980s: "That is not an issue I can confirm or deny. I am not allowed to speak about these issues. In fact, I can't even explain to you why I can't speak about these issues."

. . . Fuisz's statements to Lindauer support the claims of the two Libyan accused who are to incriminate a number of terrorist organizations, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, which had strong links to Syria and Iran.

SUNDAY HERALD, SCOTLAND: THE two Libyans accused of downing Pan Am 103 could not have planted the bomb, according to a devastating scientific report submitted by one of the Crown's star witnesses. The report threw the prosecution case into disarray and forced the adjournment of the Lockerbie trial on Thursday for 12 days. The report concludes that the Semtex bomb was attached to the inside of the aircraft in the cargo hold and was not concealed, as the prosecution case alleges, within a cassette player packed into a suitcase which was stored within a luggage container in the cargo hold . . . Senior Crown Office sources have admitted to the Sunday Herald that the report submitted to the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, just days before the trial started provided such startling new evidence that the prosecution had no alternative but to seek an adjournment to consider the future of the trial. In a stunning own goal for the prosecution, Edwin Bollier, who is listed as prosecution witness number 548, delivered a detailed analysis of the explosion to the Lord Advocate, claiming the Crown's version of the bombing was scientifically impossible.

[Free Vulcan]

AP is starting to sound like a redneck family reunion.

'The spy was a Bush staffer's ex-girlfriend's, mother's, brother's, half-uncle's, cousin's, nephew's, grandson's, great-uncle's, aunt's, cousin three times removed.'

[teletech]

Hey, give 'em enough time and they will have her directly related to Bush himself.

[Dan from Michigan]

My great grandfather's cousin was a democrat mayor of Detroit. Doesn't mean I'm a dem.

[sweetliberty]

Isn't that just like the RAT infested press....take a known democRAT operative and try to link her to the Bush family. Okay...so what? You can tell more about a person by who they associate with than by who they're related to.

[RaceBannon]

SMITH COLLEGE GRAD!!

Massachusetts lesbian college to the core!

[weegee]

UN-BELIEVABLE. She's a Democrat and a Democrat staffer but that is not the headline AP chose to run.

The "revived" public Media Schadenfreude and and Media Shenanigans lists

PING

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Just found this in more than 20 papers.

[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.

[Typelouder]

She's also a distant relative of Noah.

[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?

[F.J. Mitchell]

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