The Face of Treason
Jeffrey C. Dege
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12577
The Face of Treason
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 15, 2004
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would
never know this from the reporting by America's dominant Left-leaning
news media.
Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington,
D.C. home and charged with "prohibited financial transactions" from,
acting as "an unregistered agent of," and "conspiring" to act as a spy,
both before and after the incursion a year ago, for Saddam Hussein's
Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS).
Known in Arabic as the Mukhabbarat, the IIS has reportedly been involved
in terrorist operations, intimidating and killing Iraqi defectors and
dissidents, and according to Anwar Iqbal of United Press International,
was said to have been involved in the attempted assassination of President
George H.W. Bush.
In 2003 Lindauer also met repeatedly with an FBI undercover agent
posing as a Libyan agent. She is accused of working with him on plans
for resistance groups to fight back against Americans in Iraq.
Monday morning at 11 A.M. Lindauer and two co-defendants, sons of Iraq's
former Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, were
scheduled to appear before Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York for arraignment.
If tried and found guilty on all counts, she could be sentenced to up
to 25 years in prison.
Lindauer has worked in the offices of four prominent Democratic lawmakers
in Congress. Among the as-yet-unanswered questions about this case are
whether or how her connections to these Democrats helped Lindauer obtain
confidential information she supplied to Saddam's secret police in an
effort to keep Hussein in power.
The grand jury indictment did not explain in detail what service she
performed for the IIS. Iraq at the time was officially listed by the U.S.
as "a country supporting international terrorism."
Information from Lindauer might, among other things, have enabled
Hussein's hit men to locate and assassinate key Iraqi expatriate
opponents of the regime. Her co-defendants are charged with providing
such information.
Around May 1993 Lindauer was hired by Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio,
whose political views matched her own. DeFazio is not just a member but
also an officer of the "Progressive Caucus" in Congress, long allied
with the Democratic Socialists of America.
The "Progressive Caucus" is chaired by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich
of Cleveland. This vegetarian, anti-war candidate for the 2004 Democratic
Presidential nomination proposes replacing the Department of Defense
with a Department of Peace.
According to the rating of America's premier liberal organization,
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Kucinich in 2000 voted on the
Left side of legislation 86 percent of the time, and in 2002 he did so
80 percent of the time. Using this as a benchmark, DeFazio's ADA rating
was 90 in year 2000 and 95 - voting Left 95 percent of the time - in 2002.
In January 1994, two years before he would be elected Senator, another
Oregon Congressman named Ron Wyden hired Susan Lindauer. Wyden had his
15 minutes of fame during a TV interview, as he praised President Bill
Clinton's war policy in Bosnia, when the interviewer handed Wyden a globe
of the world and asked him to show where Bosnia was. Wyden had no idea
and rightly became a national laughingstock. But this ideological soul
mate of Susan Lindauer remains a Left-loyalist, winning ADA ratings of
90 in 2000 and 85 in 2002.
In January 1996 Lindauer was hired as press secretary to Illinois Senator
Carol Moseley Braun, who would be removed from office by voters two years
later. Braun's lifetime ADA rating is a far-Left 88 percent, but during
her brief run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 it was
not enough to top frontrunner Senator John F. Kerry's ADA rating of 93,
five points higher than his fellow Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy.
As the spy scandal broke, Moseley Braun told reporters that she "doesn't
remember" Lindauer. Here's an April 1996 story from the Daily Egyptian,
student newspaper of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, quoting
Lindauer at length as "spokeswoman" for Senator Moseley Braun. She ceased
working for Moseley Braun in September 1996.
One 1998 news item identified her as an executive with a proposed
new television station in Washington, D.C., that would cover the
Executive Branch as C-SPAN does the Congress, but this apparently never
materialized.
In 2002 Lindauer was hired by California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who
represents San Jose near San Francisco. She worked in the Congresswoman's
office from March 11 until May 14, said Lofgren.
"To my knowledge, this former employee had no access to sensitive
information," said a formal statement by Lofgren. "Obviously, I had no
reason to think that she was involved in this alleged activity. I have
had no further contact with her since she left my employ."
But it is clear why Lindauer felt drawn to ultra-Lefty Lofgren, and why
Lofgren seemed almost frantic to distance herself from someone whose
extremist politics are so close to Lofgren's own. The Congresswoman's
ADA rating for 2000 was 85, nearly tied with that of "Progressive Caucus"
loony Leftist Rep. Kucinich. Her ADA rating for 2002 was 100 - a perfect
100 percent Leftist voting record identical to that of her fellow San
Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader.
When you read the dominant press news reports about accused spy Susan
Lindauer, however, her jobs on the staffs of four prominent Democrat
lawmakers get buried many paragraphs into the stories, if they get
mentioned at all. The fact that these are not ordinary lawmakers but are
four of the farthest Left members of Congress never gets mentioned at all.
Instead, America was told that Susan Lindauer was a kook, a nut, an
eccentric wacko who could not hold a job for long with the lawmakers
who hired her. But these Leftist Democrats knew one another's staffs,
and her first three jobs transitioned smoothly from DeFazio to fellow
Oregonian Wyden to Moseley Braun.
Yet we are supposed to believe that none of these lawmakers warned fellow
Democrats that Lindauer was any kind of problem. Presumably each checked
her references and inquired of the fellow lawmaker who was only a few
doors away.
Those who have worked as staffers or journalists in D.C., as this
columnist has, can tell you that Capitol Hill is a smaller place than
you think. Truth is, their comrade Lindauer was quite acceptable to
these Leftist Democrats until the spy issue became news too hot to
handle. But now the Left-aligned media is scurrying to dissociate her
from their lawmaker allies.
The New York Times dutifully quoted a newspaper man she worked for in
1989 on the Washington Post-owned Everett Herald in a suburb north of
Seattle who in her "saw some signs of flakiness." The headline to Jame
Dao's Times story called her "Committed Yet Erratic." The word "committed"
is ambiguous, meaning either "dedicated" or locked up in a mental asylum.
Adding the word "erratic" skews its subconscious meaning in the latter
direction.
"She lives in a fantasy world," a neighbor told Associated Press reporter
Larry Neumeister. And to emphasize her mental instability, he described
Lindauer first and foremost as a "former journalist," not a congressional
aide, speechwriter or flack.
The Washington Post found various neighbors who described Susan Lindauer
as "eccentric," "a little delusional or on something," a paranoid who
"believed she was under surveillance" and that "my house was bugged
with listening devices and cameras - little red laser lights in the
shower vents."
The Post story depicts Lindauer as believing that "someone put acid on
the steering wheel of my car" and that "I survived several assassination
attempts. Oh, I could write a book." The New York Times story says that
she aspires to be a writer and has shown one neighbor "manuscripts for
a children's book and a satirical novel."
She is, the Post quotes a neighbor, "a little bit strange, a bit of a
character...a Takoma Park-type person."
In Washington, D.C. conservatives tend to prefer life in suburban
Virginia, and liberals prefer to move north into Montgomery County,
Maryland, a do-gooder Democratic bastion where towns banish not only
Jesus but also Santa Claus as too religious and have tried to prohibit
residents from smoking inside their own homes.
The steamiest Leftist fever swamp in Montgomery County is where Lindauer
made her home, Takoma Park. Many call it "Coma Park" because of the
latter-day hippies there whose addled brains cannot remember that this
is no longer the 1960s. Takoma Park's lawmakers declared this town a
"nuclear free zone."
How far to the Left is this hothouse community in which Lindauer chose to
make her home? It makes Berkeley, California seem moderate by comparison.
On Friday the New York Times described this community as a "left-leaning
enclave on the northern doorstep of Washington, a place fondly known by
its residents as "the People's Republic of Takoma Park." If even the
ultra-Leftist New York Times sees it as Leftist, Takoma Park must be at
least four clicks to the Left of the Communist Party USA.
By the employers she has had, the company she kept and the community
in which she chose to live, it seems irrefutable that Susan Lindauer
is a far Leftist. But is she a nut whose potential treason is out of
character for the Left?
It is fair to say that most Leftists are either insane or opportunistic.
What sane or ethical person would embrace the socialist philosophy of
Stalin and Hitler and Pol Pot? Yet that is precisely what the Left is -
the belief by some that humankind can be perfected through dictatorship,
slavery, and the genocide of undesirable peoples or ideas or values. If
we can just exterminate the Jews, the Kulaks, or capitalist greed,
Leftist utopians have promised, then heaven will appear on Earth.
But the fruits of 100 years of socialist experiments have been more
than 100 million murdered human beings killed by Communism and perhaps
another 40 million killed by Adolf Hitler's National Socialism, the
slightly smarter but equally evil near-twin of Marxism.
Added to this death toll have been more than two billion slaves. Communism
stole from these people their right to liberty, their pursuit of
happiness, and their right to the fruits of their own labor. These people
were conscripts, slaves whose lives were spent in coercion, forced to
build somebody else's pyramid, somebody else's absurd utopian dream -
in exactly the same way that slaves 150 years ago had their lives and
labor stolen to build someone else's plantation house and Scarlett
O'Hara dresses.
These experiments have, without exception, refuted the utopian claims
Karl Marx made for "scientific socialism." The idea does not work. It
is too far from human nature to work. It produces only dictatorship,
suffering and death. Socialism kills. Socialism is theft. It is a pretty,
poisoned flower that has always produced poisoned fruit.
But the toxin in this fruit intoxicates many. It does feed one dark
aspect of the human soul - the covetousness, envy and impulse to steal
from others that are marked out as evils by the 10 Commandments.
Marx called religion the opiate of the masses. He was wrong.
Today Marxism is the opiate of the masses. It is the drug of choice for
millions who think as if they are part of a herd or lynch mob instead
of as free, rational individuals.
And socialism's deepest impulse, as David Horowitz so brilliantly explores
in his new masterwork Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, is not
"progressive" but rather destructive and reactionary.
As Horowitz observes, Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire invokes a dictum of
Goethe's devil: "Everything that exists deserves to perish." When the
Left speaks of "peace" or "liberation," it really aims to destroy all
that is "and begin again in the year zero of creation," rather like
Shiva the Destroyer aspect of divinity worshipped in Hinduism.
Or in the words of anti-Communism from half a century ago: "I love
humanity," says the Communist. "It's just these individual human beings
I despise." These are what the idolatrous cult of Marxism and its
brainwashed acolytes ultimately seek to eradicate.
Class warfare continues because some would rather steal than work for
what they get. In their shortsightedness, they would rather get even
than get ahead.
And some opportunistic politicians and demagogues are always willing
to gain power and wealth for themselves by promising to rob those you
envy through the power of taxation and the government, and to give their
expropriated property to YOU.
As Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw observed: "He who robs Peter to
pay Paul can always count on Paul's support."
In America one of our two largest political parties is built entirely
on this irrational, self-destructive philosophy. And envy is so strong
an emotion that its voters seldom notice that they never get more than
chickenfeed from the wealth government confiscates. It is enough for
these conned fools to believe that the rich have lost their wealth -
when in fact a new, less deserving class of the politically enriched
has merely fattened on the stolen loot.
Is Susan Lindauer delusional? Almost certainly, yes. Everyone who
genuinely believes in the failed god of socialism is delusional.
Only the willfully blind cannot see that socialism does vastly more evil
than good. But this is precisely why Lindauer fit so perfectly into a
symbiotic relationship with her fellow believers, including those four
leading Democratic lawmakers.
"I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else,"
said Lindauer.
She has been a very public anti-war activist, from the bumper stickers
on her aging Mazda to her signature in 2002 among 3,138 others on a
published anti-war petition. And she herself seems to believe that her
cooperation with Saddam Hussein's secret police, including a trip to
Baghdad in 2002 during which she met with IIS agents, somehow makes the
world a more peaceful place.
Part of the indictment against her is that Lindauer did well by doing
what she deemed good. She allegedly received approximately $10,000 in
recompense for her expenses and services to Hussein's regime.
One of the things Lindauer apparently did for this money was to deliver
a letter on January 8, 2003, to the home of her second cousin, Andrew H.
Card, who happens to be President Bush's White House Chief of Staff. In
this letter she reportedly conveyed her access to and contacts with
members of Saddam's regime.
Such an act constituted an illegal attempt to influence U.S. policy by an
unregistered agent of the Iraqi Government, and Card may have reported
this attempt to authorities. Card says he was not home at the time,
and that he last spoke to his Democrat cousin during the 1991 Bush
Inaugural period.
By such behavior, Susan Lindauer demonstrated yet another Leftist
characteristic. She believed herself to be above the law. She assumed as a
matter of right that she as a private citizen had the right to carry out
foreign policy, and as part of that process to give aid and comfort to a
listed terrorist regime that had already used poison gas to murder large
numbers of its own citizens as well as those of a neighboring nation.
The Left-leaning media has made much of Card's distant biological
relationship with Lindauer. At the same time, the establishment press
has thus far not lifted a finger to investigate her direct and active
work in the offices of four Democratic Capitol Hill lawmakers.
The press has also made much of Susan Lindauer's father John, who
moved his family to Alaska in 1976 when she was 13 after he was hired
as chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage. He would go on to
own a chain of Alaskan newspapers during the 1980s and early 1990s,
get elected to the state legislature, and become a failed Republican
gubernatorial candidate disavowed by the Republican Party and brought
down by scandal in 1998.
Susan's mother Jackie Lindauer who dressed stylishly in black capes
died of cancer in 1992. In 1995 John married Dorothy Oremus, a Chicago
attorney who along with other members of her family owned the largest
cement concern in the Midwest. For the soap opera of how her secret
money funded and then destroyed his 1998 try for Alaska's governorship,
click here.
Susan Lindauer "liked being in the spotlight and having attention,"
said one friend from her 1981 class at East High, Anchorage. She was an
honor student and thespian, but the school's "in" crowd never accepted
her and gave her the nickname "Squid" or "Squiddy."
Acquaintances told the Anchorage Daily News that Lindauer was
"intellectual and a bit ethereal...super smart," "more worldly than the
average East High kid," "a bit of a wild child," and "one of those that
was kind of 'Katie bar the door.'" She was already beginning to embrace
and advocate Leftist ideas.
After attending liberal Smith College in Massachusetts, Lindauer worked
during the early 1980s for her parents' newspaper chain. In 1987 she moved
to the Seattle area, working for a few months as a business reporter for
the Leftist Seattle Post-Intelligencer and thereafter for two years as the
most liberal editorial writer at the suburban Everett Herald. By 1991 she
had moved to Washington, D.C. and was working for the liberal newsmagazine
U.S. News & World Report. Along the way she also earned a Master's Degree
in public policy from the socialist London School of Economics.
Twisting ever more leftward, Susan Lindauer would soon move from being a
liberal media ally of Leftist Democratic politicians to being a member
of their staffs. And from serving these socialists, it probably to
her seemed a short step to serving the Ba'athist socialist regime of
Saddam Hussein, whose hatred for America sounded so much like what she
was accustomed to hearing from liberal reporters, Leftist lawmakers,
and her anti-war neighbors and fellow-travelers in Takoma Park.
More than half a century earlier thousands of Americans followed that same
leftward path that led them to betray America to serve the monster Joseph
Stalin. A proper education in history, economics and ethics would blow
up the bridges on this worn path, but America's "socializing" public
schools refuse to teach such lessons.
"A key to the mentality of the Left," writes David Horowitz in Left
Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, "is that it judges itself by its
best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them -
by their worst deeds." Such an unbalanced perception is the mark of sick
minds, the kind of totalitarian minds that easily rationalize treason
and even mass murder in the name of socialist idealism.
Lindauer, after decades of feeding deeper and deeper at the trough of
Leftist anti-American hatred, became willing to betray the United States
to protect a socialist monster, Saddam Hussein, whose mass graves covered
300,000 tortured bodies and whose aim was to acquire weapons capable of
killing tens of millions.
In the end what should a historian say of self-appointed Leftist
"peacemakers" who betray their country to terrorists in the name of peace
like Susan Lindauer? The historian Tacitus 19 centuries ago said of his
fellow Roman conquerors: "They make a desert and call it peace." But
history is written by the winners. If good people weaken, then Lindauer's
side might yet win, as her fellow socialists did Sunday in Spain.
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>Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington,
>D.C. home and charged with "prohibited financial transactions" from,
>acting as "an unregistered agent of," and "conspiring" to act as a spy,
The indictment did not charge Ms. Lindauer with spying (or
espionage). It is just more conservative "disinformation"
that Jeff posts.
Jeffrey C. Dege
http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/iraq/uslindauer31004ind.pdf
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
INDICTMENT S2 03 Cr. 807 (MBM)
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :
- v. - :
SUSAN LINDAUER, :
a/k/a "Symbol SUSAN,"
RAED NOMAN AL-ANBUKE, :
a/k/a "Ra'id Al Anbuge,"
a/k/a "Raed Rokan," :
a/k/a "Raed Al-Anbaki," and
WISAM NOMAN AL-ANBUKE, :
a/k/a "Wisam Al Anbuge,"
a/k/a "Wisam Noman Rokan," :
Defendants. :
COUNT ONE
Conspiracy to Act as Unregistered Agents of a Foreign Government
COUNT TWO
Acting as an Unregistered Agent of a Foreign Government
COUNT THREE
Acting as an Unregistered Agent of a Foreign Government
COUNT FOUR
Acting as an Unregistered Agent of a Foreign Government
COUNT FIVE
Prohibited Financial Transactions with the Government of Iraq
COUNT SIX
Violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
COUNT SEVEN
Making False Statements
COUNT EIGHT
Making False Statements
COUNT NINE
Making False Statements
COUNT TEN
Making False Statements
COUNT ELEVEN
Making False Statements
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>On 15 Mar 2004 14:27:34 -0800, Rent This Space <russ...@netscape.net> wrote:
>>Jeffrey C. Dege writes:
>>>
>>>Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington,
>>>D.C. home and charged with "prohibited financial transactions" from,
>>>acting as "an unregistered agent of," and "conspiring" to act as a spy,
>>
>>The indictment did not charge Ms. Lindauer with spying (or
>>espionage). It is just more conservative "disinformation"
>>that Jeff posts.
>
>http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/iraq/uslindauer31004ind.pdf
Since you have the document, you should have no trouble posting
the section that mentions spying or espionage. But you can't
because it isn't in there, is it.
Face it Jeff, the conservatives started screaming "spy" before
they bothered to read the indictment. And now that they've
screamed "spy", they keep repeating it, rather than simply
admitting that they made a mistake.
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More selective concern over national security issues from Mr. Dege.
Where, Mr. Dege, is your concern over Grover Norquist bringing an AQ
representative to the White House on September 10th? Where is your
concern over his dealings with non-profits that have had their assets
frozen in the war on terror?
I hope Susan Lindauer faces the full force of the law. Do you hope the
same about Grover Norquist?
Jeffrey C. Dege
>jd...@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote in message news:<slrnc5c4c3...@jdege.visi.com>...
>> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12577
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>>
>> The Face of Treason
>>
>> By Lowell Ponte
>> FrontPageMagazine.com | March 15, 2004
>>
>> THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would
>> never know this from the reporting by America's dominant Left-leaning
>> news media.
>>
>Where, Mr. Dege, is your concern over Grover Norquist bringing an AQ
>representative to the White House on September 10th? Where is your
>concern over his dealings with non-profits that have had their assets
>frozen in the war on terror?
>
> From: jd...@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
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> http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today
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> Headline Story | Wednesday, September 17, 2003
>
> American Muslim Council figure is charged with federal terrorist finance
> crimes
>
>
> The "moderate" image of some high-profile US Muslim groups continues to
> collapse as the Senate steps up hearings on Islamist terror networks
> inside the United States and as federal investigators find increasing
> alleged connections to terrorism.
>
> As the Center for Security Policy has been warning for more than two
> years, the connections with these groups to a prominent Republican
> activist and to White House outreach operations led by Karl Rove, may
> prove harmful to both President Bush and the nation.
>
> In recent days, former officials of the Council on American-Islamic
> Relations (CAIR) have pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. Now,
> the Wall Street Journal reports that senior figure in the American Muslim
> Council (AMC) - which an FBI spokesman had previously characterized as
> one of the most "mainstream" Muslim groups in the country - has been held
> since June as a major player in the financing of international terrorism.
>
> That senior terrorist figure is AMC advisory board member Soliman Biheiri,
> an Egyptian whom a federal prosecutor says "came here as the Muslim
> Brotherhood's financial toehold in the US." The goal is to spread a
> global Islamic theocracy. The Muslim Brotherhood, according prosecutors,
> spawned both al Qaeda and Hamas.
>
> "The case of Soliman Biheiri has become the spearhead of a two-year
> investigation into whether Islamic activists and their wealthy Saudi
> backers assembled an empire of dozens of well-funded businesses and
> charities in this country to support terrorists and their causes,"
> according to the Wall Street Journal. "The Justice Department says those
> elements converged around Mr. Biheiri, head of a now-defunct New Jersey
> investment firm who has been charged with immigration fraud and held in
> US custody since mid-June."
>
> Significantly, Rove and the Republican activist, Grover Norquist, have
> ignored warnings from national security experts that the organizations
> they were courting, including CAIR and the AMC, were tied to terrorists.
> Both have been behind a barrage of attacks on the Justice Department's
> fight against domestic terrorism and against Attorney General John
> Ashcroft personally - this as Norquist's group, the Islamic Institute,
> takes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from a Wahhabi regime in
> the Persian Gulf.
>
> Both Rove and Norquist reportedly are behind an effort to pressure
> President Bush to slow down the war against the terrorists, called the
> "No More War in '04" strategy. Given the connections with so many people
> now under federal investigation or in jail, one must ask what really
> motivates the nature and timing of such activity.
>
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have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of
government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their
principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine
for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times
out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by
looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage,
and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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