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How Susan Lindauer Was Caught
NRO ^ | 11 March 2004 | Byron York

Posted on 03/11/2004 3:07:02 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alanbuge; anbuge; byronyork; iis; iraq; lindauer; nomanalanbuge; raedalambuge; raedrokanalanbuge; rokanalanbuge; unscom; weaponsinspectors; wisamalanbuge; wisamnomanalanbuge; wissamalanbuge
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To: BARLF
I think she deserves the same fate as William Wallace!!!!!
121 posted on 03/11/2004 6:50:14 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: cmotormac44
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.
122 posted on 03/11/2004 7:03:02 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (You p'cher yes vote in, take yer yes vote out; P'cher no vote in...you do the Kerry Pokey and you...)
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To: TomGuy
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.
123 posted on 03/11/2004 7:12:27 PM PST by ottersnot ("They've got the Monkees! They were a major influence on the Beatles")
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To: bootless
"I wonder if she had any ties to those thisclosetotreasonous congressmen who went to Iraq. Who was that again?"

Or to Scott Ritter.
124 posted on 03/11/2004 7:15:02 PM PST by ozzysmom
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To: ottersnot
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.
125 posted on 03/11/2004 7:17:08 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: cmotormac44
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.
126 posted on 03/11/2004 7:22:40 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (You p'cher yes vote in, take yer yes vote out; P'cher no vote in...you do the Kerry Pokey and you...)
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To: oceanview
This has been brewing for a year. Card did very well, and I doubt the administration will comment on it at all.
127 posted on 03/11/2004 7:27:23 PM PST by optimistically_conservative (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous. T.B.)
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To: bootless
McDermott is from Washington. She worked for 2 congressmen from Oregon. Bonnier was another one. I don't remember the third one.
128 posted on 03/11/2004 7:40:35 PM PST by mathluv (Protect my grandchildren's future. Vote for Bush/Cheney '04.)
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To: mathluv
McDermott and Bonier, thanks. Don't remember #3 either.
129 posted on 03/11/2004 7:43:22 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget / Olvides Nunca)
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To: mathluv
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?
130 posted on 03/11/2004 7:46:47 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget / Olvides Nunca)
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To: optimistically_conservative
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

131 posted on 03/11/2004 7:59:39 PM PST by MinuteGal (Register now for "FReeps Ahoy 3" . A week of fun, food, freeperistics, starting in the low $700's!)
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To: 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.
132 posted on 03/11/2004 8:16:56 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (Just a country boy with an agenda :)
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To: dandelion
Do we still hang Treasonous citizens? ... This one should hang ... after her brain is thoroughly picked over for connections to her dnc bosses.
133 posted on 03/11/2004 8:23:00 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: 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.>>>>
 
Maybe it's this group
 
Teresa Heinz Kerry, Drummond Pike and the Communist TIDES FOUNDATION

134 posted on 03/11/2004 8:28:51 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: archy
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).

135 posted on 03/11/2004 8:29:47 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("(We)..come to rout out tyranny from its nest. Confusion to the enemy." - B. Taylor, US Marine)
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To: techwench
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!

136 posted on 03/11/2004 8:29:47 PM PST by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: ServesURight
She said something about being responsible for getting the weapons inspectors back into Iraq.
137 posted on 03/11/2004 8:30:51 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: Tench_Coxe
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?

138 posted on 03/11/2004 8:32:10 PM PST by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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Hang her.
139 posted on 03/11/2004 8:32:32 PM PST by xone
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To: nobody_knows
...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.
140 posted on 03/11/2004 8:34:57 PM PST by WestTexasWend
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