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.

[Nebr FAL owner]

It's the "Happy juice & large bore needle" for this B*TCH

[Ann Archy]

She is the very DEFINITION of TRAITOR!!! Plus she helped get some of our soldiers KILLED...she Aided those killers of our military!!!! HANG HER.

[Lockbar]

"It is not true that Miss Lindauer is a spy for the Iraqi Government. I know this! And now I will go outside and broil my intestines on the front gates of hell!"

[TomGuy]

Andy Card's cousin??

I am almost positive that is what CNN said.

[thegreatbeast]

"In all, Lindauer is charged with receiving about $10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service. Selling out your country pretty cheap.

[Smartaleck]

Which begs the question.
With people like her living here does the Patriot Act overstep its bounds or is it what's needed to catch #$^@# people?

[Carolinamom]

What did she say?

She was shouting, "I'm innocent; I've done more for this country than anybody else."

In a deposition she gave in connection w/the Lockerbee case, she identified herself as "a world citizen".)

[princess leah]

Since she was so chummy with the Saddam regime, put in the jail cell next to his and let the special ops people deal with her! I'd say a daily ration of drugs, rat poison, etc ought to improve her disposition!

[William McKinley]

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.

Best guess- the official was Andy Card, and he did.

[teletech]

DemocRATS are PURE EVIL!!! This woman needs to punished up to and including the death penalty!

[Ann Archy]

"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.

[BARLF]

Why isn't she called a Left Wing Conspirator?

[William McKinley]

Second cousin.

[Prime Choice]

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

Correction: the site is www.THEsmokinggun.com.

[pfflier]

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.

Alot of the "usual suspects" there but I suppose that Kerry will have blamed President Bush by tomorrow.

[TomGuy]

Second cousin.

Yeh. Al Gore is my second cousin (by marriage).

[optimistically_conservative]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/11/iraq.conspiracy.case/index.html

A federal indictment states Susan Lindauer in January 2003 delivered a letter to the home of a U.S. government official saying she had contacts with members of the Saddam Hussein regime "in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy."

CNN has learned that the government official mentioned is White House chief of staff Andrew Card.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Lindauer is a distant cousin of Card's and that his last recollection of seeing her was "in early 2001 around the inaugural events."

McClellan said Card "cooperated fully with the investigation" and views this "as a very sad, very unfortunate incident."

McClellan said Lindauer made "various attempts" to contact Card and said she was in contact with the Iraqi regime.

Card "brought that to the attention of the appropriate officials" at the Justice Department, McClellan said.

A government source told CNN that Card was not home when Lindauer delivered the letter to his house.

The source said Card immediately notified the Justice Department and turned the letter over to authorities. Card also informed President Bush of the investigation, the source said.

[Dog Gone]

Yes, she thought she killing American soldiers, but she happened to be talking to an FBI agent.

However, she was working with real Iraqi intelligence agents for years before that.

Who knows what really happened there...

Anyway you look at it, she is guilty of treason.

[Prime Choice]

I saw a clip of her on the local news. What was she shouting at the cameras? What did she say?

Probably something like, "Vote for Kerry! He'll make me a National Hero!"

Hey, you never know...