 |
 |
Ex - Democratic Congressional Aide Charged with Spying for Iraq
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Ex-Congressional Aide Charged With Spying
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040311/D818AIPG2.html
Mar 11, 1:01 PM (ET)
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
NEW YORK (AP) - A former journalist and congressional press secretary was arrested Thursday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, accepting $10,000 for her work, prosecutors said Thursday.
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.
She was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein.
Lindauer worked at Fortune, U.S. News & World Report and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before beginning her career as a political publicist. She worked for then U.S. Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., before joining the office of former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun as press secretary in 1996.
Chris Fitzgerald, a spokesman for Wyden, now a senator, said the office had heard Thursday of Lindauer's arrest and expected to issue a statement later in the day.
"She worked for us a short period of time," he said.
Moseley-Braun's current spokesperson, Loretta Kane, said the former senator does not remember Lindauer.
According to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Lindauer made multiple visits from October 1999 through March 2002 to the Iraqi Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan.
There, she met with several members of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence arm of the government of Iraq that allegedly has played a role in terrorist operations, including an attempted assassination of former President George H.W. Bush, the indictment alleged.
The government said she accepted payments from the Iraqis for her services and expenses amounting to a total of $10,000, including $5,000 she received during a trip to Baghdad in February and March 2002.
Her acceptance of the money and her willingness to bring it home from Iraq violated a law prohibiting transactions with a government that sponsors international terrorism, the government said. The indictment did not specify a motive.
The charges against Lindauer were included in an expanded indictment in the case against Raed Rokan Al-Anbuge, 28, and Wisam Noman Al-Anbuke, the sons of Iraq's former liaison with United Nations weapons inspectors.
The brothers were charged last year with acting as Iraqi government agents and conspiring to do so, prosecutors said. The indictment said Lindauer conspired with the brothers.
On Jan. 8, 2003, prosecutors said, Lindauer tried to influence U.S. foreign policy by delivering to the home of a U.S. government official a letter in which she conveyed her access to and contacts with members of Saddam's regime. The official was not identified in the indictment.
The United States invaded Iraq in March of last year, and the government fell the following month.
The indictment said she met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. It said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.
According to the indictment, she continued to correspond with the undercover agent until last month and followed the agent's instructions to leave packages on two occasions in August in "dead drop" operations.
Lindauer, who was not immediately assigned a defense lawyer, faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if she is convicted, prosecutors said.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Stuck in 19*53
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by IceBreaker:
...accepting $10,000 for her work, prosecutors said Thursday.
$10K??! Either she didn't have much info to offer or spy work doesn't pay much these days.
|
"I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged." -- Roger Jones
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
She worked for then U.S. Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., before joining the office of former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun as press secretary in 1996.
...
Moseley-Braun's current spokesperson, Loretta Kane, said the former senator does not remember Lindauer.
She doesn't remember her own press secretary? And she wants to be president? No.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
oops...this belongs in the politics forum...would a kind moderator please move it?
Yes..I saw that too.. to help terrorist harm America for 10K. no matter what the amount..it is still pathetic.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Guilty until proven innocent.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Beautiful Downtown Portland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Obviously there is a lot more to this story (I hope), but right now it appears she is guilty of working as a publicist (her chosen profession) for the Iraqi government.
I didn't realize that was considered a crime. And I certainly wouldn't have thought it constituted espionage.
There really has got to be more to this or something is horribly wrong here.
|
|
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S. Thompson
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Herzliya
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by clt2:
Guilty until proven innocent.
Yep, that's the good ol' American Way. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by thunderous_funker:
Obviously there is a lot more to this story (I hope), but right now it appears she is guilty of working as a publicist (her chosen profession) for the Iraqi government.
I didn't realize that was considered a crime. And I certainly wouldn't have thought it constituted espionage.
There really has got to be more to this or something is horribly wrong here.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Beautiful Downtown Portland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by IceBreaker:
The best thing about the US? You won't be on her jury.
|
|
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S. Thompson
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by clt2:
Guilty until proven innocent.
But that isn't what is going on. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
was watching CNN on this... she is a Democratic Anti-War Activist, who was on the payroll of the Iraqi Government.
Where does one sign up to be a paid anti-war activist?
Paid for with oil money of Saddam's I Imagine?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: South of the Mason-Dixon line
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle:
She doesn't remember her own press secretary? And she wants to be president? No.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
It would be even funnier if she wasn't *really* that dumb.
"The churdren be suffrin cause of the mean ol' conservatives.."
edited:
Sliffdaddy truth # 341
hyphenated last name = somebody with low IQ.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: New York City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Her father was also the Republican nominee for governor in Alaska in 1998.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: NJ, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by zachs:
Her father was also the Republican nominee for governor in Alaska in 1998.
Who cares who her father was, or who her 14th cousing twice removed is? What were her ideals? Who did she identify with? Who did she work for?
Her father and cousin have nothing to do with this.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Occasionally Quoted
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Francisco
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
(Last edited by daimoni; Apr 21, 2004 at 11:41 AM.
)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: New York City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by spacefreak:
Who cares who her father was, or who her 14th cousing twice removed is? What were her ideals? Who did she identify with? Who did she work for?
Her father and cousin have nothing to do with this.
I don't care at all. Makes no difference to me. NYCFarmboy pointed out that her distant cousin was Andrew Card; I pointed out that her father was the Republican nominee for governor.
Whatever.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by clt2:
Guilty until proven innocent.
Well, we haven't done too well recently with our spying accusations. The chaplain at Guantanamo apparently didn't do anything. Wen Ho Lee was guilty of extreme negligence but we couldn't get him on spying. The spy in the White House who exposed Valerie Plame is still unidentified..
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by zachs:
I don't care at all. Makes no difference to me. NYCFarmboy pointed out that her distant cousin was Andrew Card; I pointed out that her father was the Republican nominee for governor.
Whatever.
ANd he pointed out none of it mattered.
Whatever indeed.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
