Susan Lindauer

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Susan Lindauer (born 17th July 1963), of Takoma Park, Maryland, is an American journalist 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 Saddam Hussein.

The prosecution claims that she accepted $10,000 for the work. The exact charge was that she acted as an unregistered agent of Iraq, something akin to an unregistered lobbyist. Although news headlines frequently refer to her as "accused spy", more precise journalists note that the actual charges carefully avoid accusing Lindauer of espionage.

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Employment

Lindauer worked at Fortune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and U.S. News & World Report before beginning a career as a political publicist. 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/speech writer.

After leaving Capitol Hill, Lindauer worked as a back-door channel between the United States and Libya to start negotiations for the Lockerbie trial, working closely with American agencies. In the course of that effort, she established special contacts in difficult to reach Arab countries, including Iraq, Egypt and Yemen, for the purpose of achieving cooperation on anti-terrorism. After Libya handed over the two men for the Lockerbie Trial, Lindauer applied the same conflict resolution strategies to help persuade Iraq to accept the return of the weapons inspectors according to the terms and conditions demanded by the United States-- Throughout all stages, her work was closely scrutinized and guided by U.S. foreign policy agencies.

Lindauer faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if convicted.

In late 2005, Lindauer was found incompetent to stand trial and was sent for observation to a Texas federal mental facility. She was still there in early 2006. See http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0607/lindauer.php

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Quotes

I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent...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. Statement to media March, 2004
I am deeply proud of my expertise on international conflict resolution, and my regrettably extraordinary gift for counterterrorism ... I have identified a dozen bombings before they happened with a high degree of accuracy and a number of assassination attempts on world leaders. Letter addressed to President-elect Bush on Dec. 22, 2000.
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