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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-10-06 12:48 PM
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Andrew Card reported his cousin to Authorities, claiming she was a spy.
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Here is an older article regarding Susan Lindauer, the cousin of Andrew Cards who was incarcerated for a year by the Bush Administration. They claimed she was a "spy". Her crime was trying to convince the Administration that there were no WMD's in Iraq.

Friday :: March 12, 2004
Accused Spy Susan Lindauer and Andrew Card

We've seen some criticism of the media's mention that Susan Lindauer, accused of spying for the Iraqis, is related to Bush advisor Andrew Card. Some accounts say they are distant relatives, others say they are second cousins.

It's obvious that Card is crucial to the case--he's the one who reported her to authorities:

The indictment said Ms. Lindauer delivered a letter early last year to a United States government official listing her access to and contacts with Saddam Hussein's government. Investigators said the official was Mr. Card, one of President Bush's closest associates and a participant in nearly every high-level Oval Office meeting. White House and law enforcement officials described Ms. Lindauer as either a second cousin or a distant relative of Mr. Card.

....Investigators said Ms. Lindauer had gone to Mr. Card's home in Washington around Jan. 8, 2003, more than two months before Mr. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, and dropped off the letter in what the indictment said was "an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States foreign policy." Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said that Mr. Card had not seen Ms. Lindauer since around the time of Mr. Bush's inauguration in 2001 but that Ms. Lindauer had tried to reach him a number of times subsequently. Mr. McClellan said Mr. Card "brought to the attention of the appropriate officials the various attempts by her to contact him."

The case sounds like much ado about nothing to us--so far:

Federal law enforcement officials said that despite Ms. Lindauer's extensive contacts with the Iraqis, there was little evidence to suggest that she had harmed national security by passing any sensitive intelligence to the Hussein government. Instead, she was largely perceived, even by some law enforcement officials, as a woman who fancied herself a peacemaker. "She thought maybe she could do more than she really could as an intermediary" between Washington and Baghdad, said a law enforcement official.

http://www.talkleft.com/new_archives/005626.html

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