Via Wizbangblog.
(AP) - NEW YORK - A former journalist and congressional press secretary was arrested Thursday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), accepting $10,000 for her work, prosecutors said Thursday.
Susan Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and was to appear in court later in the day in Baltimore, authorities in New York said.
She was accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
Now here's the kicker.
The indictment said she met on two occasions in Baltimore in June and July with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence representative who was seeking to support resistance groups in postwar Iraq. It said she discussed the need for plans and foreign resources to support these groups.
Un-freaking-believable. How many of our troops was she willing to put in harm's way just because she personally opposed the Iraq war?
"If you cannot love your country, at least you should do it no wrong." -- U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina, at the sentencing of another spy, Ana Belen Montes
AP Story here. Washington Post here. Via Andrew Sullivan, here's the link to the indictment at The Smoking Gun.
Posted by Thief at March 11, 2004 02:33 PM