How Susan Lindauer Was Caught

NRO ^ | 11 March 2004 | Byron York

[optimistically_conservative]

Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war.

According to the indictment charging Lindauer with conspiracy to spy for Iraq, that meeting took place on June 23, 2003, in Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment charges that Lindauer and the agent "discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support [resistance] groups operating within Iraq."

The indictment says Lindauer met with the agent again on July 17, 2003, to discuss the same topic. Then, according to prosecutors, the undercover FBI agent instructed Lindauer to leave a set of documents at a designated spot in Takoma Park, Maryland, the suburb of Washington, D.C., where Lindauer lives. The indictment says Lindauer left the requested documents on August 6, 2003, and left another set of documents on August 21, 2003.

During the period from June 2003 until February 2004, the indictment alleges, Lindauer remained in regular e-mail contact with the FBI undercover agent, whom she believed was working for Libya.

According to the indictment, Lindauer's efforts to assist the Iraqi resistance came after years of contacts with Iraqi intelligence agents. The indictment says those contacts began in October 1999, when Lindauer first met with Iraqi agents in New York.

The indictment alleges that Lindauer met with a representative of the Iraqi Intelligence Service in New York on September 19, 2001, just eight days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The indictment charges that not long after 9/11, Lindauer and her co-conspirators gave Iraqi intelligence agents information about Iraqi expatriates in the United States. Prosecutors say Lindauer usually met with Iraqi intelligence agents in New York and was reimbursed for her travel and meals.

The indictment says Lindauer traveled to Baghdad in February 2002 as a guest of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Prosecutors say Lindauer met with several Iraqi agents during the trip. She also allegedly accepted about $5,000 in cash from the agents.

In all, Lindauer is charged with receiving about $10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

In one intriguing passage, the indictment charges that on January 8, 2003, Lindauer "delivered, to the home of an United States government official, a letter in which Lindauer conveyed her established access to, and contacts with, members of the Saddam Hussein regime, in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy." The indictment gives no further details and does not include the identity of the government official, or whether that official reported the incident to authorities.

Lindauer is a former journalist for U.S. News & World Report, as well as for Fortune magazine and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She also worked as a spokeswoman for then-Representative (and now Senator) Ron Wyden of Oregon, as well as former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun.

[Empireoftheatom48]

I think she deserves the same fate as William Wallace!!!!!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

It makes me sick that an alleged spy inside our country would be freed on bond. I'm hunting online to see if I can find out who posted the money.

[ottersnot]

Oh my. The picture says it all. The smug "know it all" look. I want to puke. The blood of our dead are on her hands (if she's guilty of course which she appears to be from her arrogant combative behaviour).
G.D.Commie Pukes.

[ozzysmom]

"I wonder if she had any ties to those thisclosetotreasonous congressmen who went to Iraq. Who was that again?"

Or to Scott Ritter.

[Pukin Dog]

I guarantee you that she aint lookin so smug in her interrogation room. That bitch is scared to death, probably asking for protection. She is safer in jail than she is on the street. I bet she sings like a canary, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

This is all I have found:
Susan Lindauer, 41, was taken into custody in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and made a brief court appearance in Baltimore, where a federal magistrate ordered a psychiatric evaluation and released her to a halfway house, pending the posting of $500,000 bail.

[optimistically_conservative]

This has been brewing for a year. Card did very well, and I doubt the administration will comment on it at all.

[mathluv]

McDermott is from Washington. She worked for 2 congressmen from Oregon. Bonnier was another one. I don't remember the third one.

[bootless]

McDermott and Bonier, thanks. Don't remember #3 either.

[bootless]

Well, that was quick. One of the leftwing rags I subscribe to is some sorry outfit called "truthout." Their monthly fundraisers are largely ineffective, and I regularly receive whiny emails asking for money because the fundraiser has been a flop.

Today's cr@p: Cousin of White House Chief of Staff Arrested as Spy for Hussein
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031204AA.shtml

Figgers, huh?

[MinuteGal]

What's with the references in this article to "resistance groups"?

Her attempts to aid them was AFTER our involvement and pacification began.

They should correctly be called "terrorist groups".

How did this come from the pen of Byron York and slip past his editors at National Review Online?

Leni

[hatfieldmccoy]

Shepard Smith said tonight on the Fox Report that Lindauer had worked for Fox News in the mid nineties and had been terminated. Hmmm... somebody ponied up half a mill in bail for this rat b**ch... maybe the DNC.

[MHGinTN]

Do we still hang Treasonous citizens? ... This one should hang ... after her brain is thoroughly picked over for connections to her dnc bosses.

[Coleus]

Shepard Smith said tonight on the Fox Report that Lindauer had worked for Fox News in the mid nineties and had been terminated. Hmmm... somebody ponied up half a mill in bail for this rat b**ch... maybe the DNC.>>>>

 

Maybe it's this group

 

Teresa Heinz Kerry, Drummond Pike and the Communist TIDES FOUNDATION

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

On really bad days, sometimes I am grateful that I am not sharing a foxhole with the guests at Paul Wellstone's funeral (and I am maybe even happier that our enemies are).

Off to repent...and be grateful for our allies, who are not enemy combatants).

[randog]

she said "i need an extreme makeover"

LOL!! I just saw her doing the perp walk and was thinking that she could keep a plastic surgeon in the chips for years!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

She said something about being responsible for getting the weapons inspectors back into Iraq.

[randog]

That fits the definition of treason.

They'll try her for treason right after they finish with Jane Fonda.

What is the sentence for treason these days? You get your passport revoked?

[xone]

Hang her.

[WestTexasWend]

...or...take her to Iraq and tell Saddam we're spottin' him one of his 77 virgins ("This un's the purty one") They deserve each other.