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.

[Lockbar]

"THIS BITCH CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS..."

Very good, but how about "THIS DEMOCRAT OPPERATIVE BITCH CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS..."

[RUCKUS INC.]

Co-conspirators?

As opposed to a single conspirator? Seems kind of redundant doesn't it?

[TomGuy]

"Lindauer and her co-conspirators"

Yes.

There were several FR threads posted earlier today. Also,

http://www.smokinggun.com has the actual indictment.

[nobody_knows]

"As they say in Texas, "This one needs killin'."

And as we say in Idaho..."I'd sure appreciate it if'n you was to find it in your heart to hang her by the neck, until she was dead."

[RetroSexual]

We often tend to notice only when the FBI screws up. It looks like they did a nice, clean job here, and caught one of the many bad guys lurking around our capitol. Good job, G-Men!

[billorites]

"As opposed to a single conspirator?"

I believe that if you conspire alone you'll go blind.

[george wythe]

The first person to find a picture of $u$ie and Qerry please ping me.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Use this to tar the lame stream media after all it sure as heck wasn't "right wing hate radio" that went looking to work for folks killing American GI's. As for her guilt or innocence my money is on the FBI have this silly,stupid treasonous c*nt on both video & audio as well as phone taps.

[Shermy]

I hope this broad starts naming names. Might take down half the Rats in congress.

By her conduct I bet she's a low-grade asset and a nut case.

There's gotta be bigger fish...

[Waco]

The RATS hardly bother to blur the fact that they are commie/ traitorous S.O.B.s anymore do they?

[jpl]

The scary thing is that for every traitor out there that gets caught like this vile witch, there's probably another nine or ten out there like her that haven't been caught yet.

[tiamat]

I'm with you.

[cmsgop]

Andy Card ?????

[js1138]

Can I use Photoshop;^)

[niteowl77]

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."

THIS BITCH CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS...

If she didn't, it wasn't for lack of effort. Try her and fry her.

[jackbill]

She was yelling "I am an anti-war activist, and I'm innocent".

The Baltimore Sun reported:

"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."

In one story today, a neighbor was quoted as saying something to the effect that "She lived in her own world".

A nut-case, but then she's a RAT.

[petercooper]

Andy Card's cousin??

[ClintonBeGone]

If these charges are true and she is thus convicted, I hope she gets the death penalty for treason. That she engaged in this conduct is by itself reprehensible. That she engaged in it so soon after 9/11 is an abomination.

Yet they (Kennedy AND Hatch) want to fry the Senate Judiciary GOP staffer that read democrat memos on obstructing the Presidents judicial appointees. Crazy I tell ya.

[Tunehead54]

I'd say we are bowling a strike here. All that's needed on her resume is a stint at the NY Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and an internship with Qerry.

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Shouldn't that be "Queerry"? I'm not with the Post Police but that's what my spell-checker suggested. ;-)

[george wythe]

Complete text of $ymbol $u$an Lindauer's indictment:

Text of indictment against American spying for Iraq

Excerpt

n. On or about January 8, 2003, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” 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.

o. On or about June 23, 2003, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met in Baltimore, Maryland, with a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) acting in an undercover capacity as a member of the Libyan intelligence service seeking to support resistance groups in post-war Iraq (the “UC”), and discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups operating within Iraq.

p. On or about July 17, 2003, SUSAN LINDAUER, a/k/a “Symbol SUSAN,” met in Baltimore, Maryland, with the UC and discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support resistance groups operating within Iraq.