U.S. (Democrat, Saddam-loving) Woman Is Alleged Iraqi Agent

CBS News ^ | Friday, March 12, 2004

[JohnHuang2]

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U.S. Woman Is Alleged Iraqi Agent
NEW YORK, March 11, 2004


A former news reporter and press secretary for four members of Congress was charged Thursday with being a paid Iraqi intelligence agent and trying to contact her distant cousin — the White House chief of staff — to alter U.S. policy.

Susan Lindauer, 41, was taken into custody in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and made a brief court appearance in Baltimore, where lawyers argued over whether she should be granted bail.

"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer yelled at CBS News cameras outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible."

She was charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi Intelligence Service and with engaging in prohibited financial transactions with the Iraqi government. The indictment makes no mention of her congressional staff work. She was not directly charged with espionage.

She could get up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge.

The indictment said she accepted $10,000 for working for the intelligence service from 1999 to 2002, including payments for lodging at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad and expenses during meetings in New York City with Iraqi agents.

According to the indictment, Lindauer delivered a letter "to the home of a United States government official" on Jan. 8, 2003, in which she described her access to members of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime "in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States policy."

The U.S. official was not identified. But a government official, speaking on condition on anonymity, said the recipient of the letter was White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, a distant cousin of Lindauer.

CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports investigators say Lindauer played up her relationship to Card and that the Iraqis knew of it. The White House said Card had no comment and called the arrest "a sad personal incident."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that the last time Card recalls seeing or talking to Lindauer was during January 2001 inaugural events. McClellan said the FBI interviewed Card about his contact with Lindauer and that Card cooperated fully.

Card told the FBI that Lindauer had tried to contact him on behalf of the former regime several times.

The indictment did not specify a motive.

The Iraqi Intelligence Service is the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq that has allegedly played a role in terrorist operations, including an assassination attempt against former President Bush.

The U.S. government said that the agency also was involved in bombings during the first Gulf War and has intimidated and killed Iraqi defectors and dissidents living abroad.

The arrest came as a surprise in Washington, where Lindauer had a long history as a journalist and a political aide.

She worked at Fortune, U.S. News & World Report and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before going into politics. Her father, John, was the Republican nominee for governor of Alaska in 1998.

She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in 1993 and Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994. She joined the office of Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., as press secretary in 1996. In 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

The indictment stems from a series of encounters and exchanges in recent years.

The government said Lindauer returned in March 2002 from a trip to Iraq with $5,000 in cash received from Iraqis agents, breaking a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors terrorism.

Lindauer's work allegedly continued through last month, when she maintained contact with an FBI agent posing as a Libyan intelligence service operative who wanted to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq.

The indictment said she met the agent last July in Baltimore, "and discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support resistance groups operating within Iraq." Acting on the agent's orders, Lindauer left documents at a spot in Takoma Park last August, the indictment said.

Lindauer's father owned newspapers in Alaska. After his defeat in the governor's race, he pleaded no contest to two charges related to his campaign finances. He received probation and a fine.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, March 12, 2004

Quote of the Day by highlander_UW

[Jimmy Valentine]

You had better come take a look at this; one of your neighbors is on a tear.

You and Doctor Deming (of the Takoma Park Demings of that ilk)need to do some house cleaning up there, it appears.

Regards,

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095807/posts
Lindauer Links- the Enemy Within--
various FR links | 03-11-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[Ken522]

Any pictures of the perp? Just wondering ...

[Just mythoughts]

"She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in 1993 and Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994. She joined the office of Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., as press secretary in 1996. In 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif."


Who does she work for now, or since 2002 when she worked for Democrat, Rep. Zoe Lofgren?

[Jaxter]

[Lion in Winter]

I bet she was going to vote for kerry!

[woofer]

I bet she was going to vote for kerry!

I noticed that CBS was touting her distant relationship to Andy Card and added that she worked for four elected Demoncrats as an afterthought, later in the article.

These people never give up.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Monster"

[Just mythoughts]

"I bet she was going to vote for kerry!"

Maybe she is one of those foreign leaders JFKerry has been meeting with that supports him as president.


Thus far I have only seen her "work" history up to 2002, she may well have been working on his campaign, she sure had a lot of "media" contacts.

[PJ-Comix]

"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent...."

".....and my DUmmie screen name is HateBush!"

[JimSEA]

I understand that she is in the running to be Kerry's Secretary of State but that Hans Blix is favored.

[PJ-Comix]

The indictment said she met the agent last July in Baltimore, "and discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support resistance groups operating within Iraq."

And she is only facing 10 years jail time for this????

[CSM]

"She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in 1993 and Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994. She joined the office of Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., as press secretary in 1996. In 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif."

Yet, all I have heard on the news is the confirmation of her relation to Andrew Card. Seems like her relation to some people out weigh her actual decisions of whom to work for. Typical liberal media spin!

[Just mythoughts]

"I understand that she is in the running to be Kerry's Secretary of State but that Hans Blix is favored."

According to her own words she seems better suited to be the next UN ambassador.

I'd like to know who she has been working for since 2002.

[PGalt]

And she is only facing 10 years jail time for this????

Exactly. The enemy within is much tougher to defeat. Thanks for raising an awareness (only facing 10 years) point

[P.O.E.]

Ah, but that's not how it's being reported.

CNN is saying in headline crawls: "Maryland woman in Iraqi case related to Andy Card".

Of course, totally ignoring Kofi Annan's SON named in the Iraqi oil-for-food scam.

The lib press continues to selectively report in order to mislead.

Sigh.

[homecat]

The IRS should be called in too. Once upon a time, Al Capone was nailed on tax evasion. Bet she didn't pay her fair share on the spy dollars. Aren't RATS all for paying their fair share?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Last night, the NBC anchor referred to her not as Carol Mostly Frauds little worker bee, but as Andy Cards' second cousin.


Bernard Goldberg only skimmed the surface in his book BIAS.

[Maria S]

"I noticed that CBS was touting her distant relationship to Andy Card and added that she worked for four elected Demoncrats as an afterthought, later in the article."

The DNC got their talking points out early on this one! I heard Doug Stephan practically gasp! that she was a second-cousin to WH Bush adviser Card...a second-cousin!!! (They way he made it sound, she was practically taking meals with the President for goodness sakes! Good grief!) Then he offhandedly mentioned that she had been an assistant to four people in congress (never mentioning, of course, who THEY were!). Same thing on the morning TV shows.