TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, March 14, 2004

Washington Post:

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
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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. . . .

She is charged with acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign government and other offenses -- but not espionage -- for allegedly maintaining an "intelligence relationship" with U.S.-based Iraqi spies . . . Authorities allege Lindauer delivered a letter in early January 2003 to the home of a second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr., urging the Bush administration to delay military action against Iraq.
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Law enforcement sources familiar with the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said her alleged activities caused no harm to U.S. national security but eventually could have caused damage.

She has not entered pleas in court but told reporters Thursday, "I'm an antiwar activist, and I'm innocent."

Maybe she was targeted in a vendetta: The Sunday Herald (UK), May 28, 2000:

A FORMER CIA agent who claims Libya is not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is being gagged by the US government under state secrecy laws and faces 10 years in prison if he reveals any information about the terrorist attack. . . .

Fuisz, a multi-millionaire businessman and pharmaceutical researcher, was, according to US intelligence sources, the CIA’s key operative in the Syrian capital Damascus during the 1980s where he also had business interests.

One month before a court order was served on him by the US government gagging him from speaking on the grounds of national security, he spoke to US congressional aide Susan Lindauer, telling her he knew the identities of the Lockerbie bombers and claiming they were not Libyan.

Lindauer, shocked by Fuisz’s claims, immediately compiled notes on the meeting which formed the basis of a later sworn affidavit detailing Fuisz’s claims. One month after their conversation, in October 1994, a court in Washington DC issued an order barring him from revealing any information on the grounds of "military and state secrets privilege".
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Lindauer [says,] "Dr Fuisz has told me that he can identify who orchestrated and executed the bombing. Dr Fuisz has said that he can confirm absolutely that no Libyan national was involved in planning or executing the bombing of PanAm 103, either in any technical or advisory capacity whatsoever."
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Fuisz told her: “If the [US] government would let me, I could identify the men behind this attack today. I could do the right thing ... I could go into any crowded restaurant and pick out these men ... I can tell you their home addresses ... You won’t find [them] anywhere in Libya. You will only find [them] in Damascus. I was investigating on the ground and I know." . . .

Details of Fuisz’s gagging have been passed to the United Nations, including UN secretary general Kofi Annan, Russia’s UN ambassador Sergey Lavrov and the Libyan UN ambassador, as well as representatives of France and China.

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