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.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

Can I use Photoshop;^)

LOL.. woke the dog up and made her look at me!

[SendShaqtoIraq]

The news anchor kept talking over her, so the only thing I really heard her say was when they were putting her in the car. she said:

I'M PROUD OF WHAT I DID.

[archy]

On really bad days, sometimes I am grateful that I am not sharing a foxhole with the guests at Paul Wellstone's funeral

We'll, I'm at least grateful that you're not sharing a hole with the guest of honor at Wellstone's funeral....

[VaBthang4]

LOL

[KC_Conspirator]

In addition to causing the deaths of American soldiers, she also endangered the lives of Iraiqi-Americans.

[Heatseeker]

"President Bush's Chief of Staff, Andrew Card's cousin was arrested as a spy today".

THAT will be the headlines. There will be NO MENTION that she's a DEMOCRAT or WORKED as a JOURNALIST and spokeperson for Democrats.

When media types want to hide information (their main line of work IMO) they will bury the problematic details in the lower-middle part of a longish article, knowing most people don't read them all of the way through. For example, the Baltimore Sun article which jackbill referenced mentions the connection to Card in paragraph #1, but doesn't mention the fact that she worked for congressional Democrats and the media until pargraph #19. Surprise surprise.

[Hon]

"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."

Yeah, I'd say that is typical of most Democrats, who waited about a week before going back to helping the enemy.

[KC_Conspirator]

It was prety cheap, but with the American hating left, its always about ideology.

[BARLF]

She is safer in jail than she is on the street.

Remember Jim McDougal?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Had Saddam been in power and we didn't get ahold of key documents in file cabinets in Baghdad, we wouldn't be talking about this broad today. I'm sure her name was on a document or hard drive in Baghdad.

[Ophiucus]

Do we still hang these types or is it the firing squad now? I forget.

I don't think we do either anymore, unfortunately. The last case I remember that the death penalty was used involved the electric chair.

Since then, all I've heard are life in prison sentences.

But to do this eight days after 9/11....man, that deserves a short rope and a tall tree.

[GretchenEE]

On the Seattle area TV news, tonight, they walked around this story in fear and shock. They refused to name the Congressmen/women she'd worked for. They did interview her former supervisor at the Seattle P-I (newspaper), and said she'd also worked for a paper in Edmonds, I think it was.

They showed footage of the woman being hauled off by the gendarmes, yelling at the camera. It will take some expert pressure if they can even get her to talk, IMO. One of her heavily-accented neighbors described her as crazy, and her former supervisor at the liberal P-I described her as "radically liberal," which is saying A LOT.

The one major big name they threw out is that she is a cousin (distant) of Andrew Card.

The Seattle media make me ill.

[cyncooper]

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

Or to Scott Ritter.

Or to Joe Wilson...

[optimistically_conservative]

Yeah, I'd say that is typical of most Democrats, who waited about a week before going back to helping the enemy.

Really? You think the typical Democrat waited that long, or was this one a rabid Democrat?

[Toespi]

You know Waco, what you said is the most frightening thing of all. They do not try to conceal their contempt for the constitution and law and it is not an accident. I am really to the point where I think there is a potential for an overthrow of this government from within.

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, she was making political statements being arrested.

Here's my take: people like her on the left are trying to revive 1968 (nominating Kerry is proof of that) and create the air of political dissidents again.

So she tries to divert the focus of the charges against her to being a victim of political persecution waging a fight against an illegal war in their mind. Just like Vietnam.

In this way they try and build support or their cause and will always deny any criminal activity. Then they'll throw in the Patriot Act and blame Ashcroft for using "it" (even though simple law enforcement got her and would have before the PA).

Before you know it, "FREE LINDAUER" bumper stickers will pop up. And the attacks against the evil Bush administration will continue on the basis of suppressing dissent.

But it won't work. It's more nostalgia now. I don't think they can get people to foam at the mouth like in 1968.

I was just surprised she wasn't wearing tie-dye, bell bottoms and flowers in her hair.

[txhurl]

Here's what's terrible: she's teflon, no stick. It ain't happening. Story will die over the weekend.

Sad but true.

[Master of Orion]

Yeah! Just like Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar the guy who fragged the troops in Kuwait. What ever happened to him?

Official Cites Religion in Grenade Attack (on our troops in Kuwait by US Muslim soldier)

Officers Describe Kuwait Grenade Attack (Akbar on trial)

[sauropod]

You nailed it.

[Poohbah]

Yeah! Just like Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar the guy who fragged the troops in Kuwait. What ever happened to him?

He's getting his due process before they hang him.