It's interesting what you can find when you do a simple Google search. I saw on the news last night that Susal Lindauer, "A former journalist and one-time press secretary for four members of Congress
was arrested Thursday on charges she served as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service before and after the U.S. invasion... 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. Prosecutors say she accepted $10,000 for he work."
Now, on the surface, the story already begins to sound funny, because as everyone knows, many U.S. companies, such as Bechtel and Hewlett Packard, have engaged in many transactions with Iraq but were never prosecuted. This woman took $10,000 from them for (supposedly) almost nothing, and she's being arrested. According to this article when Lindauer was workign for ex-Democratic Presidential hopeful Carol Mosley Braun, she worked with her on affirmitive action talks and other civil rights oriented situations. Does that sound like the kind of person who would work to help Iraq hurt people? Now, it sounds even more sketchy when we hear Lindauer's comments about the situation:
"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible. I'm very proud and I'll stand by my achievements."
Now, this obviously doesn't make her innocent already. This definitely needs to be investigated, because the group she's charged with working for is supposedly the group that has been accused of terrorist activities, including trying to assassinate GW's dad. I was curious about Lindauer, so I did a
Google search on her name, and came up with
this article and
the following on my first try:Last month, MEIB reported that Dr. Richard Fuisz, a major CIA operative in Syria during the 1980s, met with a congressional staffer by the name of Susan Lindauer in 1994 and told her that that the perpetrators of the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland were based in Syria [see "The Lockerbie Bombing Trial: Is Libya Being Framed?" Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, June 2000]. One month after their meeting, the Clinton administration, which holds Libya responsible for the bombing, placed a gag order on Dr. Fuisz to prevent him from publicly discussing the issue.
The rest is here, or under "there's more."
It's interesting what you can find when you do a simple Google search. I saw on the news last night that Susal Lindauer, "A former journalist and one-time press secretary for four members of Congress
was arrested Thursday on charges she served as a paid agent for the Iraqi intelligence service before and after the U.S. invasion... 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. Prosecutors say she accepted $10,000 for he work."
Now, on the surface, the story already begins to sound funny, because as everyone knows, many U.S. companies, such as Bechtel and Hewlett Packard, have engaged in many transactions with Iraq but were never prosecuted. This woman took $10,000 from them for (supposedly) almost nothing, and she's being arrested. According to this article when Lindauer was workign for ex-Democratic Presidential hopeful Carol Mosley Braun, she worked with her on affirmitive action talks and other civil rights oriented situations. Does that sound like the kind of person who would work to help Iraq hurt people? Now, it sounds even more sketchy when we hear Lindauer's comments about the situation:
"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV as she was led to a car outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible. I'm very proud and I'll stand by my achievements."
Now, this obviously doesn't make her innocent already. This definitely needs to be investigated, because the group she's charged with working for is supposedly the group that has been accused of terrorist activities, including trying to assassinate GW's dad. I was curious about Lindauer, so I did a
Google search on her name, and came up with
this article and
the following on my first try:Last month, MEIB reported that Dr. Richard Fuisz, a major CIA operative in Syria during the 1980s, met with a congressional staffer by the name of Susan Lindauer in 1994 and told her that that the perpetrators of the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland were based in Syria [see "The Lockerbie Bombing Trial: Is Libya Being Framed?" Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, June 2000]. One month after their meeting, the Clinton administration, which holds Libya responsible for the bombing, placed a gag order on Dr. Fuisz to prevent him from publicly discussing the issue.
While Dr. Fuisz is still unable to comment on this matter because of the gag order, MEIB has obtained a copy of a formal deposition filed by Lindauer in 1998 in which she recounts this conversation in detail. This deposition (see below) has been submitted to the court in which two Libyan suspects are currently on trial and to U.N. officials, who have attempted to persuade the Clinton administration to lift the gag order on Dr. Fuisz.
Lindauer says that she has been subject to intense surveillance, threats, and attacks since she began meeting with Libyan officials in 1995 to discuss her knowledge of the Lockerbie bombing. "Someone put acid on the steering wheel of my car on a day I was supposed to drive to NYC for a meeting at the Libya House. I scrubbed my hands with a toilet brush, but my face was burned so badly that 3 weeks later friends worried I might be badly scarred," Lindauer told MEIB. "Also, my house was bugged with listening devices and cameras -- little red laser lights in the shower vent. And I survived several assassination attempts."
Following that introduction is the text of Lindauer's deposition. It's pretty long, so I'll just reproduce the parts I think are important.
In offering this deposition, I hereby inform the court and all interested parties at the United Nations that I have never accepted any financial compensation from any of the individuals, or governments involved in this case, in any form of cash or non-cash payment. Furthermore, I have never solicited nor received promise of future payments in exchange for this testimony. My reasons for coming forward reflect my own deepest personal values, and my sense of obligation to the cause of international peace and security. I remain deeply persuaded that justice must never be confused with convenience or political scapegoating, and that the issues of this case, including the prosecution of terrorist activities and the imposition of sanctions that seek to isolate an entire Arabic population, are too important in this contemporary age for a lie to stand unchallenged. And so let it be understood by the court: I make these statements of my own free will, out of respect to my own conscience and sense of obligation as a world citizen.
...
"Susan, if the (United States) government would let me, I could identify the men behind this attack today. I could do it right now. You want a police line up? I could go into any crowded restaurant of 200 people, and pick out these men."
"I can identify them by face, by name." He started gesticulating, and counting off on his fingers. "I can tell you the address where they work, and what time they arrive at their office in the morning. I can tell you what time they go to lunch, what kind of restaurants they go to, and what time they leave their offices to go home for the day. I can tell you their home addresses, the names of their wives if they're married, the names and ages of all their children. I can tell you about their girlfriends. I can even tell you what type of prostitutes they like."
"And you know what, Susan? You won't find this restaurant anywhere in Libya. No, you will only find this restaurant in Damascus. I didn't get that from any report, Susan." Dr. Fuisz started shaking his head. "I got it because I was investigating on the ground, and I know. Do you understand what I'm saying to you now? I know!"
To which I answered. "For God's sakes tell me, and I'll get my boss to protect you."
...
On both accounts, I cannot be silent. I suspect my disclosure will grieve the families with the horrible revelation that U.S. government officials have behaved so cynically and despicably as to withhold evidence in this case. And yet such a cynical and desperate act must be condemned by civilized society. I dare say Libya is entitled to financial compensation for the economic harassment her people have endured because of these blatantly false accusations, and the deliberate efforts to mislead potential judges, and victimize potential witnesses by a policy of aggressive harassment and punishment for speaking out. Meanwhile, the true culprits have literally gotten away with murder.
Now, this is all pretty crazy in my mind, and what's crazier is that NO media outlets that I can find have so much as peeped about Lindauer's deposition in '94. So? What's going on?