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.

[Callahan]

The first article I read didn't mention she was a Democrat until the last paragraph.

[Callahan]

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

[dandelion]

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...

[optimistically_conservative]

The difference between "far right-wing conservative" media and the unbiased certainly not liberal lamestream media, I guess.

[11th_VA]

What a maroon - BTW, WMAL radio in DC lead the local news with this story, stating she was a former aid to Carol Mosely Braun.

[Prime Choice]

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.

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.

[Humidston]

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

Give her a fair trial, then give her the death sentence. She's not fit to breathe our air, let alone take up space on this planet. NO American should do this to their countrymen.

Especially after 9/11.

[b4its2late]

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.

A fine example of a democrat.

[TomGuy]

CNN reports that she is a cousin of Andrew Card and attempted to give him information, but he was not home when she attempted to contact him.

[DCPatriot]

Don't be ridiculous. It's Fort Marcy Park for her.

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

..the former Democratic congressional aide...


WHAT A FREAKIN' SUPRISE!

[malia]

right, do you wonder what the article would look like if a republican aide were the guilty one?

[billorites]

"Lindauer and her co-conspirators"

Co-conspirators?

[AfghanIraqVeteran]

How dare you question her patriotism!! (sarcasm)

[js1138]

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.

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.

[RUCKUS INC.]

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

[RUCKUS INC.]

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

[Ben Bolt]

While you were at the office ..

[ServesURight]

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