Ex-Aide in Congress Charged As Iraq Spy

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She's got a good record. I really like all the people that she has worked for...

The government is accusing a one-time journalist and Congressional aide of secretly becoming a paid Iraqi intelligence agent before trying to influence her distant cousin - the White House chief of staff - on U.S. policy.

Charges brought Thursday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan against 41-year-old Susan Lindauer hinted at Hollywood-style espionage with packages left in what the prosecutor's office described as prearranged "dead drop" operations in Baltimore.

She worked for Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., in 1993 and Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in 1994. She joined the office of Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., as press secretary in 1996. In 2002, she worked for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.

In a release, Lofgren said she was "shocked to learn" of the arrest and that she had no further contact with Lindauer since a two-month work stint ended in May 2002.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D818PDU80.html

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Originally posted by kwillia
Hmmmm... just read the official charges... looks like she has been a busy little back stabbing beaver if the charges are true....

Click the 'read the charges' linkie at the bottom of this linkie.

Wow... but she claims to be innocent!

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Originally posted by kwillia
Yeah but, she said,"I'm an anti-war activist and I'm innocent," she said after her arrest in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md. "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."


She may truly believe she is innocent by her own warped definition of the word. I don't think her difinition matches my definition.

I doubt it, as well!