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Susan Lindauer
Born (1963-07-17) 17 July 1963 (age 61)
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, and activist
Parent(s)John Howard Lindauer
Jackie Lindauer (1932-1992)
RelativesAndrew Card, second cousin

Susan Lindauer (born 17 July 1963) is an American journalist, author, and antiwar activist. She was accused of conspiring to act as an agent for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Lindauer was found mentally unfit to stand trial and all charges were dropped in 2009.

Personal life

She is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, the newspaper publisher and former Republican nominee for Governor of Alaska. Susan's mother was Jackie Lindauer (1932-1992) who died of cancer in 1992. In 1995 her father married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago attorney who along with other members of her family owned the largest cement company in the Midwest.

Lindauer is also a second cousin of former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.

Education and employment

Lindauer attended East Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska where she was an honor student and was in school plays. She graduated from Smith College in 1985. She earned a masters degree in public policy from the London School of Economics. She worked as a temporary reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for 13 weeks in 1987, and as an editorial writer at the The Everett Herald in Everett, Washington in 1989. She then was a reporter and researcher at U.S. News & World Report in 1990 and 1991. Her co-workers said she was a woman "prone to mood swings and erratic behavior".

She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon (1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary and speech writer.

Activism

She started making visits to the Libyan Mission to the United Nations in 1995. She held meetings with Iraqi Intelligence Service officials at the United Nations in 1999. Andrew Card is her second cousin. Her first contact with the former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush was around 2001. On January 8, 2003, she delivered a letter to Card urging the White House to not invade Iraq.

Arrest

Lindauer was arrested on Thursday, 11 March 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government". The indictment alleged that she accepted US$10,000 from Iraqi intelligence services in 2002. Lindauer denies receiving the money, but admits taking a trip to Baghdad. She was released on bond on March 13, 2004 to attend an arraignment the following week. In 2005 she was incarcerated in Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas for psychological evaluation then moved to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Unfit to stand trial

In 2006, she was released from prison after Michael B. Mukasey ruled that Lindauer was unfit to stand trial and could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication to make her competent to stand trial.

In 2008, Loretta A. Preska of the Federal District Court in New York City reaffirmed that Lindauer was mentally unfit to stand trial.

On January 16, 2009 the government decided to not go ahead with the prosecution saying "prosecuting Lindauer would no longer be in the interests of justice."

Media

Lindauer has written a book "Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover-Ups of 9/11 and Iraq" about her experience.

References

  1. ^ Samuels, David (August 29, 2004). "Susan Lindauer's Mission To Baghdad". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-07. On the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Suspect in Iraq Spy Case Released. Lindauer, a Takoma Park Antiwar Activist, to Be Arraigned Monday". Washington Post. March 13, 2004. Retrieved 2009-01-26. A former congressional staffer accused of aiding spies for Saddam Hussein before the U.S.-led war with Iraq was released from federal custody yesterday as some residents of Takoma Park, her home city, voiced differing reactions to the unique case, including puzzlement, anger and indifference. Susan P. Lindauer, 40, a self-described antiwar activist who was a press aide to several Democratic members of Congress in the 1990s, appeared at a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and was released to the custody of her father. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ "Case Dropped Against Md. Woman". Washington Post. January 17, 2009. Retrieved 2010-12-29. The federal government has dropped its case against a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency, saying in court papers that prosecuting her would no longer be in the interests of justice. But Susan Lindauer has vowed to sue, saying that she was falsely arrested and prosecuted. The Takoma Park, Md., woman was arrested in 2004 on charges that she conspired to act as a spy for the Iraqi intelligence service, making contact through the Iraqi consulate in New York. A judge last year ruled Lindauer was mentally unfit for trial. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "Ex-journalist in spy case unfit for trial". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 16, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-26. Lindauer is the daughter of John Howard Lindauer II, a newspaper publisher who once was a Republican candidate for governor of Alaska. ... Lindauer's mother died of cancer in 1992. Her stepmother, Dorothy Oremus Lindauer, is a prominent Chicago lawyer and heiress to a concrete business fortune. Her parents reportedly live in Chicago. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. Lindauer, Susan (2011-02-17) Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act, LewRockwell.com
  6. ^ "Suspect is remembered as worldly". Anchorage Daily News. March 13, 2004. Retrieved 2009-01-26. At East High, Susan Lindauer was an honor student and a thespian. ... Lindauer worked at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer for a few months in 1987, then worked at The Everett Herald from August 1987 to July 1989. By 1991 she had moved to Washington and was working for U.S. News and World Report. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ Dao, James (March 12, 2004). "An Antiwar Activist Known for Being Committed Yet Erratic". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-11. Ms. Lindauer also worked as a reporter, freelance writer or researcher at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fortune Magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Spokesmen for those publications said her employment was so short few people remembered much about her. Ms. Lindauer took jobs as a press secretary or speechwriter with Democratic members of Congress, including Representatives Peter A. DeFazio and Ron Wyden of Oregon in 1993 and 1994, Senator Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1996 and Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, for eight weeks in 2002. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ "Neighbor Seemed Activist, Not Agent". Washington Post. March 12, 2004. Retrieved 2009-01-26. A Smith College graduate with a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, she worked as a temporary business reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1987 and then as an editorial writer at the Herald of Everett, Wash., for two years. The Herald is owned by The Washington Post Co. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. Stevenson, Richard W.; Lichtblau, Eric (March 12, 2004). "Ex-Congressional Aide Accused of Working With Iraqi Intelligence Before War". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-11. Federal prosecutors charged a former Congressional aide on Thursday with working with the Iraqi intelligence service before the war, and investigators said she had sought to influence American policy by presenting herself to a highly placed relative, Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, as an intermediary. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ Hartocollis, Anemona (September 9, 2006). "Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-26. A former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war was released from prison yesterday after a federal judge ruled that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial. ... At least a half dozen doctors for both the defense and the prosecution have found that Ms. Lindauer suffers from delusions of grandeur and paranoia, which makes her incompetent to stand trial, the judge said. But she refuses to accept the diagnosis or to take medication, he said. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7, the judge said. These include her contention that she had gifts of prophecy that allowed her to report 11 bombings before they happened, that she spoke with divine inspiration and that she was an angel. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. Weiser, Benjamin (September 16, 2008). "Woman Accused of Iraq Ties Is Ruled Unfit for Trial Again". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-06. A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Susan P. Lindauer, a former journalist and Congressional aide who was accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war, is still mentally incompetent to stand trial. Ms. Lindauer, who had been declared incompetent for trial by Judge Michael B. Mukasey, now the United States attorney general, tried to persuade a different judge that she was now competent. But the second judge, Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court, ruled late Monday that while Ms. Lindauer was "highly intelligent" and "generally capable of functioning at a high level in many ways," she also was suffering from a mental disease or defect. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. "Case dropped against aide accused of helping Iraq". Associated Press. January 16, 2009. Retrieved 2010-12-29. The government has quietly dropped its case against a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency but later ruled mentally unfit for trial. But Susan Lindauer said she won't go away quietly. The Tacoma Park, Md., woman vowed to sue, saying she was falsely arrested and prosecuted. "I am furious. I am going to be filing a civil lawsuit seeking punitive damages," Lindauer said Friday. "Nobody should think they did me any favors by denying me a trial." Prosecutors said in court papers filed Thursday that prosecuting Lindauer would no longer be in the interests of justice. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. Lindauer, Susan. "Extreme Prejudice". Retrieved 2010-12-01. Former CIA Asset, Susan Lindauer, provides an extraordinary first-hand account from behind the intelligence curtain that shatters the government's lies about 9/11 and Iraq, and casts a harsh spotlight on the workings of the Patriot Act as the ideal weapon to bludgeon whistle blowers and dissidents. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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