Ex-Congressional (Democrat) Aide Arrested for Spying for Iraq
From My Way News (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.
Matt's Chat
Anybody want to place a bet on whether or not the word Republican would have appeared in the HEADLINE of this story if this woman were conservative? I'm surprised the AP is even talking about the politics of it...unlike the schmucks at CNN who didn't bother to go in to her background at all. Media bias? Hmmm...you decide.UPDATE
Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for pointing us to this headline in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer." Oh THAT liberal media!The woman charged with working for the Iraqi spy agency is a distant cousin of President Bush's chief of staff, Andrew Card, and has held a variety of jobs in journalism and on Capitol Hill.HALLIBURTON! We demand an investigation! What did Bush know and when did he know it. It was concocted in Texas and preordained by the Zionist Masters. Oh for the love of -
Susan Lindauer, 41, worked in the press offices of four Democratic members of Congress. She also worked for Fortune magazine, U.S. News & World Report, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Fox News.
Her father, John Lindauer, was the Republican nominee for governor in Alaska in 1998. His campaign unraveled because of charges of campaign finance violations to which he pleaded no contest.
Which is the bigger deal? That she is a distant cousin of the Chief of Staff for the President of the United States or that she was ON THE STAFF for four Democrats? And while we're at it, let's assume that the evil gene is passed on genetically from her evil, Republican father... SHEESH...
Mark's Remarks
Big Liberal Media--we spin, we lie, we pander....the public suffers. This woman was a dyed in the wool democrat staffer, friends....but since she is related to a Bush staffer, it must be part of the Bush conspiracy.....would you big media types get over that? It is shameful, I tell you, absolutely shameful.
