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NEW YORK -- An American citizen was arrested Thursday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy, prosecutors said. Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.

Carol Moseley Braun Available for Comment on State of Union 1/20/04 4:42:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National and Assignment desks Contact: Loretta Kane, 202-543-5071 News Advisory: Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun will be available for interviews and commentary immediately following the State of the Union address. Patricia Ireland also is available for interviews and commentary. To schedule an interview contact 202-543-5071.

<p>Carol Moseley Braun has fallen down, and she hopes that the women libbers will pick her up.</p> <p>The National Organization for Women's political action committee and the National Women's Political Caucus PAC endorsed Mrs. Braun to ensurethe clan doesn't get designs on any man. They all — even the real men — know that the type of president this country deserves needs neither a queer eye nor a straight guy to help him pull up his pants or put on his boots.</p>

I've posted a few predictions of Democratic presidential hopefules in the past, and have had mix success. Earlier I had written off Graham and Gephardt, and assumed Dean and Kerry as the frontrunners. Here's my latest take, with a little bit more substansive research... ----- CAROL MOSELY BRAUN Ms. Braun consistently polls in the low single-digits in any major poll of Democratic candidates. If the main purpose of her candidacy has been to siphon votes away from Al Sharpton, then her campaign can arguably be ruled a marginal success on that goal. It's unclear though that her absence from the...

Name that tune When not collectively ganging up on President Bush, Democratic presidential hopefuls individually are coming up with some unusual campaign gimmicks to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Take Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, who is announcing the availability of a signed limited edition die-cast replica of the Craftsman Truck Series No. 50 "Bob Graham for President" Ford F-150 truck driven by racing phenomenon Jon Wood. One can play with the nifty red and white toy trucks for an $80 campaign contribution. The die cast is signed by Mr. Wood, who drove the F-150 to victory...

See page A6 of print edition of 7-13-03 Washington Post.

May 29 — I drove down to Chicago’s South Side on Wednesday to find the Carol Moseley Braun for President headquarters. It took some looking. “Never heard of it or her,” said one woman who asked me if I needed help as I wandered around South Wabash and 29th.

May 3, 2003 Psst . . . Democrats Debating Tonight olitical junkies may have been wondering during the Iraq war whatever became of those nine Democrats who went off to run for president? Well, they are still campaigning, even if it is 18 months until the election. What is more, they have an actual debate scheduled tonight in South Carolina that unfortunately seems to be as much a national mystery as whether Saddam Hussein is dead or alive. Sponsored by ABC News, the debate has been embargoed, with no live coverage except - where else? - on a cable...

THE NOTEPAD - May 2, 2003 AL SHARPTONDevolution is a calculated Republican plan. Tax cuts are part of their over-all strategy. The idea is to reduce the role of government - federal and state - by bankrupting them. So $500 billion deficits as far as the eye can see, blowing a projected 10-year $5.6 trillion surplus, is the goal of the Bush Administration. The point is to cut federal and state expenditures in half over the next 25 years - at the federal level, from 20 percent to 10 of GDP. Ask Grover Norquist, he'll tell you. The federal government...

Black Chicago is attempting to take back the Illinois Senate seat held for one term (1992 - 1998) by Democratic Presidential candidate Carole Moseley-Braun. The arithmetic says State Senator Barack Obama is the man to beat in a crowded Democratic primary field, newly enlivened by Republican incumbent Senator Peter Fitzgerald's decision, last week, not to run for another term. Blacks comprise about one-third of Illinois Democrats. Chicago politics is nothing if not "fluid." Moseley-Braun rode to victory on the strength of a massive Black and Hispanic voter registration and get-out-the-folks campaign in 1992, then spent six uneventful years dissipating the...

The Curious Carol Moseley-Braun Candidacy:an Extension of clinton drag and drop and legacy of lynching   by Mia T, 2.20.03 If a white person was walking down the sidewalk, a black person had to get off the sidewalk so the white person could walk by. There were laws which prohibited Blacks to look at white people in the eye, and a black person could be sent to jail for "assault (reckless eyeballing)." ... Blacks who dared to challenge the rules were lynched by the thousands. Men and women were lynched. Lynchings were public events and white men, women and...

February 12, 2003, 2:49 PM CST WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun said today that she plans to file papers with the Federal Election Commission next week to open a fundraising committee as she prepares to seek the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. “On Tuesday I will announce the formation of an exploratory committee for the presidency,” Moseley-Braun told the Chicago Tribune. “On personal commitment, I’m there. Every passing day makes me even more there.” The decision to join the field of six declared Democratic candidates comes one month after Moseley-Braun said she would not make a bid to regain...

Former senator Carol Moseley-Braun (Ill.) has told Democratic Party officials she's seriously thinking of joining the growing field of candidates for the party's presidential nomination in 2004.

So we were wrong. Apparently Carol Moseley-Braun couldn't hear the laughter and has decided she will at the least dip her toe into the candidacy pool for the Democratic presidential nomination. Moseley-Braun, as we reported late last week, was thought to have decided to nix the presidential run, and instead was planning to announce on Friday that she would seek to regain the Illinois Senate seat she lost six years ago to Republican Peter Fitzgerald. But that's not what happened. She's not going to run for the Senate. But she is going ahead with a possible presidential try. According to...

Illinois politicos expect former Democratic senator Carol Moseley-Braun to announce after the holidays that she will run, once again, for the Senate -- a move that would set up a rematch against the man who unseated her, Republican Peter Fitzgerald. [snip] Moseley-Braun was first elected to the body in 1992, when she became the first black woman elected to the Senate. She became known as an outspoken advocate for women and minorities.But after a series of ethics accusations and a controversial trip to meet with a Nigerian dictator, she was narrowly defeated by Fitzgerald. Since then, she has been the...