Article: CIA Asset Susan Lindauer blows the whistle on 9/11, Iraq

[Jan Klimkowski]

Below is the NYT hit piece from September 2006.

I note that attempts have been made to prosecute (frame?) her as an Iraqi spy, portray her as delusional and psychotic (namely, unreliable), and that she has been subjected to (KUBARK?) drug treatment during incarceration at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas for "psychological evaluation" and then the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

In other words, the deep state wants to frame Lindauer as an unreliable nut. Clearly, they don't want her testimony to be believed.

Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: September 9, 2006

A former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war was released from prison yesterday after a federal judge ruled that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial.

The judge, Michael Mukasey of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said he was not convinced that even if she took the medication, the defendant, Susan P. Lindauer, 43, would improve enough to be capable of standing trial.

Judge Mukasey also criticized the strength of the government's case, saying that the legal standard for forcibly administering medication requires a strong government interest in prosecution, and that the government has not been able to establish that standard in this case. The ruling was a setback for the government's case against Ms. Lindauer, who was arrested in March 2004 at her home in Takoma Park, Md. An indictment charged that Ms. Lindauer, also known as Symbol Susan, conspired to act as an unregistered agent of the government of Iraq from October 1999 until February 2004, and engaged in illegal financial transactions.

Although he was reluctant to analyze the government's case before trial, the judge said, "There is no indication that Lindauer ever came close to influencing anyone, or could have." The indictment, he said, describes an attempt to influence an unnamed government official as unsuccessful.

Investigators said she had tried to influence American policy by presenting herself as an agent of Saddam Hussein's government in early 2003 to Andrew H. Card Jr., then the White House chief of staff, who was described as a distant relative.

Judge Mukasey said that for Ms. Lindauer to succeed as an agent of the Iraqi government, she would have had to influence other people. But her mental condition makes that highly unlikely, he said.

"The record shows that even lay people recognize that she is seriously disturbed," Judge Mukasey said in a 35-page ruling issued on Wednesday. He said that a neighbor had suspected her of being mildly schizophrenic.

Prosecutors said she met with Iraqi intelligence officers at places in Baghdad, including Al Rashid Hotel, in 2002, where she accepted $5,000 in cash.

Ms. Lindauer told a television reporter after her arrest that she was innocent, and that she was an antiwar activist.

Ms. Lindauer worked as a journalist in Washington and in the press offices of several liberal Democrats in the House and Senate, although her last such job was in 2002.

At least a half dozen doctors for both the defense and the prosecution have found that Ms. Lindauer suffers from delusions of grandeur and paranoia, which makes her incompetent to stand trial, the judge said. But she refuses to accept the diagnosis or to take medication, he said. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7, the judge said. These include her contention that she had gifts of prophecy that allowed her to report 11 bombings before they happened, that she spoke with divine inspiration and that she was an angel.

Among her paranoid delusions, doctors said, were the notion that she was being watched by hidden cameras in her apartment, that the Egyptian government had tried to assassinate her and that men next door had videotaped her under instructions from President Bill Clinton.

At a hearing before Judge Mukasey yesterday, prosecutors offered a backup plan, asking the judge to order Ms. Lindauer to either voluntarily take antipsychotic drugs for 30 days or be held in contempt. Contempt charges could be punished with jail time.

Judge Mukasey declined to rule on the prosecutor's suggestion, saying that the case was being assigned to another judge and that he would leave that decision to her.

Meanwhile, he ordered Ms. Lindauer to be released under previously determined terms, including on bail of $500,000, on the condition that she receive psychological counseling and that her travel be restricted.

Her lawyer, Sanford Talkin, said she was released from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where she has been held for the last few weeks.

Before that, she was in a federal prison hospital in Carswell, Tex. He said she would now return to her home in Maryland.

"She can't go to trial until she's competent," Mr. Talkin said. "I think it was a difficult decision, but I think it was the right decision, and I think it was a just decision."

Ms. Lindauer is a 1985 graduate of Smith College, where she majored in economics, and she received a master's degree from the London School of Economics.

Her father, John Lindauer, was the Republican nominee for governor of Alaska in 1998.

Judge Mukasey also expressed humanitarian concerns about forcing Ms. Lindauer to take medication, which, he said, "necessarily involves physically restraining defendant so that she can be injected with mind-altering drugs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregi....html?_r=1