Susan Lindauer -- Reporter Held Political Prisoner

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the letters are an interesting read considering that they take place late September 2001, not sure what to make of them all, and I had never heard of this woman.

I did find it interesting that the Iraqi's stating that the mossad were pushing the idea that Iraq was involved with 911.

http://crashrecovery.org/lindauer/#letters

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In March 2001 Susan Lindauer carried a message from the Iraqi government to her cousin, the White House Chief of Staff, requesting the return of weapons inspectors. This proved that Iraq had no WMD, so the U.S. government knew that then. But Bush and Cheney nevertheless attacked and invaded Iraq using WMD as a pretext, murdered as many as 500,000 people, and spread radioactive poison over the entire country, which will murder millions more. Now they are holding Lindauer in prison on false claims of insanity, and are about to commit and forcibly drug her, to prevent her from ever being able to tell her story.

Susan Lindauer was a U.S. Senate and House aide and a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In the 1990s, a CIA agent, the ex-chief of station in Syria, told her that, contrary to what the U.S. government was insisting, Libya had nothing to do with the PanAm 103/Lockerbie bombing. It had been done by Syrians acting on behalf of some U.S. intelligence agents, who had been caught in criminal actions by an oversight team, and sought to kill that team as they were flying back to Washington to report. She communicated that information to various members of the U.S. intelligence community, and wrote some of it in a deposition for the trial of the Libyans who were being framed by the U.S.

More recently, Lindauer tried to save Iraqi and American lives by acting as a diplomatic back-channel between the Iraqi government, and the U.S government in the person of her cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Among other things, she conveyed the message in March 2001 that the Iraqi government was very eager to have weapons inspectors come back to their country in order to prove that they had no weapons of mass destruction. That letter is the first of the three shown below, scanned in from a photocopy.

That letter, along with Susan Lindauer's testimony, proves that Iraq had no WMD in March 2001 -- otherwise they would not have requested inspectors -- and that the U.S. government knew it.

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Talking about coincidences Jackie Chan was suppose to make a film in the Twin Towers as a window cleaner who beats down Terrorist and also saves the Statue of Liberty Applause

The day of filming was suppose to start on September 11th 2001, but lucky right or did they know?

If I ever get a Chance to ask Jackie how this happened, I will also ask him why he has sold out and become a Hollywood puppet after alsmot 30 years of great film making in Hong Kong.

I am not sure how the media pushed the Weapons inspectors but it was clear Iraq was bending over backwards to comply and the US was not hearing any of that.

It really was just a game to soften people up,

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	Look Iraq is dangerous, they have yellow cake and some aluminium pipes, quick lets kill em all!

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Jackie lives well over here. He is the governments mouth piece, when some new law has to be passed out he comes telling HK how good it is.

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Jackie really does live in a bubble, but I can say that about 99% of people and film actors.

You know what I didn't about this Susan was she was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence service or Saddam.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2006-02-15/news/from-spy-to-psychotic.php

It looks like she has been stitched up like a kipper

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Oh may Goodness she responded to the article! in the Seattle Post

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Hi there, I am the Susan Lindauer named in your story. You should have tried to contact me before running this story because it's loaded with factual inaccuracies that play straight into the Justice Department's hands.

Why don't you contact me and get my version of the events? Then you can give your readers a clearer picture. For starters, I was a U.S. Asset who covered the Iraqi Embassy for the purpose of establishing a back channel on Terrorism Intelligence for the CIA and Defense Intelligence. I covered Iraq from 1996 up to the War-- that's almost 7 years.

What they did to me is something straight out of the Cold War. Like a Robert Ludlum novel. They wanted to destroy my reputation so nobody would ask me questions about Iraqi Pre-War Intel, which is highly unfavorable to the White House. To do it, they lied to a senior federal judge in NY, who happens to be Michael Mukasey, the nominee for U.S. Attorney General.

Lying to federal judges & lying to Congress should be a scandal-- IF the media functioned properly & asked questions instead of believing what George Bush & Alberto Gonzales tell them. If you want the real dirt on the cover up of Iraqi Pre-War Intel

Call me evenings/weekends at 301-270-2413.

Susan Lindauer

I am so tempted to phone her and to tell her well done for standing up for yourself even if she has paid a high price.

This is the article that paints her as a mad hat which is full of fertilizer.

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From 'Spy' to Psychotic
The latest on the very strange story of former Seattle journalist Susan Lindauer.
By Rick Anderson
February 15, 2006

Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Susan Lindauer leaves the federal courthouse in New York on March 15, 2004.
Extra Info

The Spy-cific Northwest
Journalists, sailor, diplomat — spies. Why is Washington so spooky? (March 24, 2004)

Almost as instantly as she hit the global news cycle as a reputed U.S. traitor and alleged spy for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, former Seattle newspaper journalist Susan Lindauer dropped off the radar. Once the headlines faded in 2004, the public might have assumed she was convicted and sent to prison. But for the moment, Susan Lindauer's strange story remains incomplete. She is confined to a federal mental facility in Texas, perhaps never to get her day in court, according to friends, officials, and public records. Mostly unnoticed, a New York federal judge has found her incompetent to stand trial and ordered further evaluation. She is being held past her scheduled release date, which had been sometime early this month, and, she tells friends, might be forcibly medicated as part of her treatment.

An ex–Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and former U.S. Senate and House aide, Lindauer, 43, was charged in March 2004 with conspiring to act as a spy and being an unregistered Iraqi agent. U.S. prosecutors allege the antiwar activist accepted $10,000 from Hussein's intelligence unit over five years and sought to support resistance groups after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. She insisted her efforts—principally, to get economic sanctions lifted against Iraq—were misunderstood. She was not specifically charged with spying or espionage. The bigger question, however, was always her sanity. She had a history of mood swings and paranoid fears. People were watching her, she often said, although, as it turned out, federal agents indeed had set up surveillance and tapped her phone. Still, if she betrayed her country, did she do so knowingly?

Her mental illness is now official. Two court-appointed doctors determined, according to a ruling last fall by U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey, "the defendant is suffering from psychotic disorder not otherwise specified, delusional disorder, hallucinatory phenomena, and mood disturbance that render her mentally incompetent to the extent that she does not understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against her and is unable to assist properly in her defense at this time." Lindauer is undergoing observation to determine if she'll ever be able to defend herself in court, perhaps aided by antipsychotic drugs.

Friends say her mental state seems to have worsened during incarceration since October. "It's not clear when she's getting out now," says J.B. Fields, a federal employee with a low-level security clearance who rents a basement apartment from Lindauer at her Takoma Park, Md., home, and who talks with her regularly. "She has her good days and her bad days," he says, based on conversation when Lindauer calls from Texas. "On days when she gets emotional or scared, everybody's evil, you know."

In a letter written to her second cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, two months after Sept. 11, 2001, Lindauer made no secret about her activism or her emotional mission to aid Iraqi citizens. The letter, a copy of which she gave to basement tenant Fields, is apparently one of at least two she sent or gave to Card in 2001 and 2003. The undisclosed second letter, mentioned in the indictment, is being used to prosecute her. In the first letter, written Dec. 2, 2001, Lindauer indicates she was working back channels of government and meeting with officials at the Iraqi embassy, which prosecutors say she in fact did. She wrote Card about conversations with Iraqi diplomats and extended an olive branch on behalf of Hussein's government—in hopes, she said, of getting U.S. economic sanctions lifted against Baghdad. "I am truly praying, Andy," she stated, "that this correspondence will trigger some sort of response from you, so that this ugly quagmire in Iraq can begin to heal. Iraq is hoping for a reply through formal channels, but I would be willing to carry any response as well." After his relative's arrest, Card would not say whether he might have sparked an investigation of the sometimes-journalist by turning over that or the other letter to the FBI. The FBI would say only that Card was interviewed as part of the probe.

Lindauer, known also to prosecutors by the unexplained alias of "Susan Symbol," got out on bail, secured by her Maryland home, in 2004. She was awaiting trial until last September, when Judge Mukasey, after reading the assessments of two psychiatrists, decided more thorough observation was needed. He ordered Lindauer to turn herself in on Oct. 3 at Carswell federal medical center in Fort Worth, which specializes in mental-health services for female offenders. Sanford Talkin, Lindauer's court-appointed New York attorney, says he can't discuss the ongoing case. However, his firm recently sent an e-mail "To the Concerned Friends of Susan Lindauer," stating: "Please be assured that our office is working very hard on Susan's behalf. We understand the frustration some of you have expressed with the length of time it has taken to resolve this matter. I promise you that the decision of whether to take this case to trial or not is entirely Susan's to make. If she wants her day in court, that is what she will have. Our office has expended thousands of hours in preparing Susan's defense. Every decision has been made with Susan's best interests in mind. Additionally, Susan's Uncle Ted, a lawyer himself, has been kept appraised of everything we have done, and continue to do, to defend Susan. We appreciate your concern and would suggest the best way to assist Susan would be to send her letters of support. This is a difficult time, and she could use encouraging words from her friends to help her get through it."

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Sad to hear about Jackie Chan. I've read a book about him, and his tough childhood and can't imagine him intentionally misleading people.

For those who don't know him, he's a movie star that does his own stunts:

The Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

I think he actually uses some safety devices now, especially if he's in the US.

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I loved Jackie Chan, I have almost ever single film he was in and ever starred in including Killer Meteors which is the worsted film ever, all VHS no less and a few DVDs from his later films.

I just know he has always felt like a second class person for never being able to break into the American Hollywood market, his Hollywood parts have been terrible from a choreographic point of view and character wise, he has undone all the work Bruce Lee did almost 40 years ago.

I actually believe Bruce Lee was killed because of what he was saying and the number of people that listened to him.

Bruce less was so far ahead of his time, he changed the whole Hong Kong industry over night, people accepted he was special and knew what he was talking about, the most philosophical martial artist that had a deeper understand of human nature than anybody we have had on screen since him.