Is Susan Lindauer experiencing a fate similar to that of the Count of Monte Cristo? After following the conservative media bias there is a lot not being said about her connection to the Republican Party. After all, her father, John Lindauer, ran for the Governor of Alaska as a Republican. John Lindauer violated Alaska campaign finance law in the 1998 gubernatorial by failing disclose three things:
1. Failing to disclose that a $1 million loan was guaranteed by his wife, Dorothy Oremus.
2. Failing to disclose a $91,000 debt owed to the IRS for delinquent payroll taxes.
3. Wrongly stating that he received a 1997 Permanent Fund Dividend check.
http://www.opensecrets.org/newsletter/ce65/03states.htm
He was defeated and later pleaded no contest to two charges stemming from campaign finance problems related to the campaign. He received a one-year suspended sentence, two years of probation and a $15,000 fine.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/071/region...ressiona:.shtml
Sins of the father have little to do with the charges being brought upon his daughter; Susan Lindauer, a prestigious journalist, is facing charges much more serious than her father. She is being charged with “conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and with engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein." This is tricky language because it does not claim that she was an actual spy and the financial transactions prohibited was used mostly for travel and food expenses—not terrorism as some would like to believe. She has made several visits to New York to meet with the Iraqi Intelligence Service with the United Nations’ Iraq mission. According to the indictment "Lindauer delivered a letter `to the home of a United States government official' on Jan. 8, 2003, in which she described her access to members of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime `in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States policy.' " That official, who wasn't identified in earlier reports, is Lindauer's second cousin--White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/3/12/12718/8399
Susan was caught because she had correspondence with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200403111444.asp
Does this not seem like entrapment?
If Lindauer truly was conspiring to spy for the Iraqi government then why would she disclose all her relations and everything she knew in a letter to the White House Chief of Staff? What United States Policy was she trying to influence? Lindauer is an anti-war activist so she wasn’t in favor for the invasion of Iraq of course. More so, why is she now being brought up on charges when it has been over a year since she had submitted her letter now being used as evidence against her? Also Lindauer is a liberal who comes from a conservative family which makes me think she is a black sheep. Currently Lindauer’s Democratic ties are being played up in the media which include the people she had worked for: Ron Wyden and Carol Moseley Braun.
My question again, are the charges being brought up on Susan Lindauer politically motivated to be used as leverage to hurt the Democratic Party now so close to a Presidential election? Or is there sound evidence sufficient enough to prove her guilty according to the legal scope?

Ok, let's follow this rabbit down the hole and see where it goes. The facts as I know them:

- Lindauer is a journalist.
- Lindauer ostensibly is a card carrying member of the Democratic Party.
- Lindauer did some type of work for Saddam's ex-Iraqi regime.
- Lindauer lives in a toney neighborhood of intelligencia and peaceniks.
- She was not registered as an agent of the Iraqi government.

I mean, just lookie at the buzzwords the RNC can pull out of this:

journalist, democratic party, Saddam, agent, peacenik

It's a Rovian goldmine, I tell ya.

And you bet your bippy her whole situation is largely political. (Don't know what a bippy is? Google it.)

I don't think the arrest is politically motivated. She will get her day in court and the justice system will decide if she is guilty of treason or not.

I don't think the fact that she is a democrat will hurt the Democratic Party.

But i think the fact that she is related to Andrew Card is enough that the Dems will drag it through the mud.

Also, i would have to disagree with the 1st paragraph of your third link. A couple days after this story broke, i went online and read on Fox News that she was a cousin of Card. So the connection with Card is nothing new and the author of that story can kinda settle down over the "headlines 'they' don't want you to hear" attitude

Yes, and not only is she a cousin of Andrew Card, but from what I heard she left an envelope at his home and whatever was in it must have been incriminating because Andrew Card called the authorities.

I heard the above during a CNN report and don't know if there are any sources to back it up.

So, do I believe this is motivated for election year tabloid? As if they don't already have enough to keep them busy! No, because she may be a Democrat, but she is a cousin of a Republican and he turned her over to the authorities.

This is one I will hold my opinion on until more information is available, but it doesn't sound too good.