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.

[optimistically_conservative]

09/18/2001

She met IIS the next day. She started meeting with them since 1999.

[sauropod]

She won't. Just saw her proclaiming her innocence to the skies vis a vis "I'm an anti-war activist!" on FNC.

[txrangerette]

Good question about the Anthrax
mailings. It was soon after 9-11,
& this broad met Iraqi Intel in
NY eight days after.

[hellinahandcart]

I just saw it. She said "I'm an antiwar activist and I am innocent. I have done more to save this country from terrorism than-- (I've been working on)-- than anyone else!!" with a sneer on her face.

I am taking that to be a confession. Anyone who wants to flame me for that conclusion, take a hike. I've heard all I need to hear.

[txhurl]

Oh, but there is. I wish anybody who has the means and ability feel free to use it.

[boxerblues]

THIS BITCH CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS...

Turn her over to the units who lost soldiers, and let them have at this good American. The parents of those who lost loved one can roast what is left of her.

[PJ-Comix]

What is Lindauer's DUmmie Screen Name?

[boxerblues]

JFK

[beelzepug]

"I am surprised she did not arrange the Democrat visits to Iraq?"

Did she meet with Sean Penn while he was over there?

[zip]

ping

[kcvl]

Good job, G-Men!

Ditto!

[OldFriend]

CNN reporting only that she is a distant cousin of Andy Card and the she attempted to contact him......or did contact him...... and he immediately involved the FBI.....

[boxerblues]

They didnt find a way to connect Bush yet?

[techwench]

she said "i need an extreme makeover"

[genefromjersey]

She met on 9/19/01 in NYC-about 90 minutes away from the Princeton mailbox.The "window" on the mailing (as I recall) was from 9/18 to 9/20/01.

She also did some BS tale to the Wash Post about "acid on my steering wheel" and how it burned her hands and face.
Mmmmmmmmm........ (How about contact dermatitis from making up a bomb? Dermal anthrax ? )

I saw this lovely on the news. She's got a mouth on her !!

[Humidston]

Good point! Congratulations FBI!

[PLK]

CNN reporting only that she is a distant cousin of Andy Card and the she attempted to contact him......or did contact him...... and he immediately involved the FBI.....

This is weird and makes no sense. Could it really be true that she expected Card to participate in this somehow? What's the deal? What could she possibly have anticipated his involvement in this to be?

I'm dumbfounded by the tie to Card.

[ApplegateRanch]

I wonder if this "peace activist" is involved with any of the groups that prey on grieving family members of soldiers she helped kill, to then try to recruit them to the "peace" movment???

[Humidston]

>>What is Lindauer's DUmmie Screen Name?<<

LOL!!!!

[Tench_Coxe]

"The indictment charges that Lindauer and the agent "discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support [resistance] groups operating within Iraq.""

That fits the definition of treason.