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The below excerpts of these reports from , Washington Post , and more show that Lindauer was arrested, imprisoned without trial, declared mentally incompetent when she demanded to stand trial, and eventually released. After five years under indictment without a trial, all charges against her were quietly dropped just days before President Obama’s inauguration. Susan Lindauer is now courageously speaking out about the incredible experiences she claims landed her in prison. She presents powerful evidence that the real reason she was arrested, imprisoned, and declared incompetent was because she knew the U.S. government had clear foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and much more. After reading the below news excerpts, it is highly recommended to watch at least the first 10 to 20 minutes of the 90-minute talk given by Lindauer available here. Each news excerpt below is taken verbatim from the major media website listed at the link provided. If any link fails to function, click here. And don't miss the "What you can do" box below the summaries. By choosing to educate ourselves and to spread the word, we can and will build a brighter future. With best wishes, Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton. Please help: Your donations keep this quality news service going. Please click here to donate. Ex-Congressional Aide Accused of Working With Iraqi Intelligence Before War March 12, 2004, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/us/ex-congressional-aide-accused-of-working. Federal prosecutors charged a former Congressional aide on Thursday with working with the Iraqi intelligence service before the war, and investigators said she had sought to influence American policy by presenting herself to a highly placed relative, Andrew H. Card Jr., the White House chief of staff, as an intermediary. The woman, Susan P. Lindauer, 40, was arrested Thursday morning by federal agents at her home in Takoma Park, Md. Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment that said she had repeatedly met with representatives of the Iraqi intelligence service starting in 1999 and that she had traveled to Baghdad in 2002 for meetings with Iraqi intelligence officials. Ms. Lindauer described herself as an antiwar activist and said she was innocent. 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. Ms. Lindauer [is] either a second cousin or a distant relative of Mr. Card. 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. Neighbor Seemed Activist, Not Agent March 12, 2004, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51972-2004Mar11. Susan Lindauer was described as mercurial and passionate in her politics, but those who know her said yesterday that she seemed an unlikely operative in Saddam Hussein's spy network. "Like a lot of us, she questioned why it was necessary for the U.S. to be in Iraq," said Thomas Kaufman, who lives across from the Manor Circle home where she lived. Lindauer . has traversed an unusual path in her 40 years, rejecting the politics of her father, a onetime Republican gubernatorial nominee in Alaska, and moving from job to job until her arrest yesterday on charges that she was paid by Iraqi intelligence agents before the U.S. invasion. A graduate with a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, she worked as a temporary business reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1987 and then as an editorial writer at the Herald of Everett, Wash., for two years. The Herald is owned by Co. She worked briefly as a researcher at U.S. News and World Report before becoming a press aide for a succession of Democrats in Congress. Note: This 9/11 whistleblower had an advanced degree from the London School of Economics, described in Wikipedia as "among the world's most selective universities." And though she had worked for top newspapers and was trusted by members of Congress, she was later painted as being crazy, possibly since age 7, by government prosecutors and psychologists. On the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. She was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Having grown up in a household in which public policy was frequently the stuff of dinner-table conversation . Lindauer wanted to help change the world. The way she chose to do so, however, was not by signing petitions or marching in demonstrations, but by engaging in the kinds of clandestine encounters that you read about in spy novels -- meeting foreign diplomats, passing along secret messages and engaging in other activities that would eventually lead to her arrest. While Lindauer was not accused of espionage, as initial reports of her arrest suggested, the government did charge her with a serious crime, even if the charge itself may seem like a technicality. By failing to register herself formally as a lobbyist and by supposedly following instructions from Iraqi diplomats and intelligence agents at the , the government charged, Lindauer had been acting as ''an unregistered agent of a foreign government." Lindauer acknowledges that the meetings detailed in the federal indictment took place, but denies acting as an agent of Iraq or any other country. Her aim, as she explained it, was to function as . an unofficial go-between who could help break the cycle of isolation, paranoia and suffering created by sanctions. "U.S. intelligence knew what I was doing,'' she said. ''Everything that I did,'' she said, ''I was giving to the chief of staff of the White House.'' Dr. [is] a globe-trotting Virginia-based businessman whom Lindauer described . as ''my contact in the C.I.A..'' Citing unnamed sources, The Sunday Herald , a Scottish newspaper, reported in 2000 that Fuisz had been the C.I.A.'s most important agent in Damascus during the 80's. ''This is not an issue I can confirm or deny,'' Fuisz told The Herald . ''I am not allowed to speak about these issues. In fact, I can't even explain why I can't speak about these issues.'' Fuisz confirmed that he saw Lindauer about once a week on average between 1994 and 2001. John Lindauer [is Lindauer's] younger brother. One conversation John had with his sister in the summer of 2001 stuck in his mind. ''She goes, 'Listen, the gulf war isn't over. There are plans in effect right now. They will be raining down on us from the skies.''' His sister told him that Lower Manhattan would be destroyed. ''And I was like, yeah, whatever,'' he continued. When he woke up six weeks later to the news that two planes had crashed into the twin towers . he had a dislocating sense of having his reality replaced by Susan's strange world. Parke Godfrey, a close friend of Lindauer's for the last 15 years, is a professor of computer science at York University in Ontario. He says that Lindauer warned him not to take a job at N.Y.U. the summer before the Sept. 11 attacks. Note: Though the entire, long article at the link above tries to paint Lindauer as being somewhat delusional, it does reveal an abundance of important information supporting many of her claims, including government foreknowledge of 9/11. Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail September 9, 2006, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09spy.html. 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. 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. 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. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7. Note: This article paints Susan Lindauer as being quite crazy, and having been so possibly since age seven. Yet clearly, she had enough sense to cause the government to want to put her in prison for her activities trying to make peace between the U.S. and certain Arab countries. Woman Accused of Iraq Ties Is Ruled Unfit for Trial Again September 16, 2008, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/nyregion/17lindauer.html. A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that Susan P. Lindauer, a former journalist and Congressional aide who was accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war, is still mentally incompetent to stand trial. Ms. Lindauer, who had been declared incompetent for trial by Judge Michael B. Mukasey, now the United States attorney general, tried to persuade a different judge that she was now competent. But the second judge, Loretta A. Preska [ruled] that while Ms. Lindauer was "highly intelligent" and "generally capable of functioning at a high level in many ways," she also was suffering from a mental disease or defect. Ms. Lindauer, 45, pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. Ms. Lindauer . said by phone on Tuesday: "The right to a trial is fundamental in a democracy. I have been fighting for a trial because I am innocent and I believe I have the right to prove my innocence." Judge Preska, in her ruling, said that Ms. Lindauer generally understood the roles of jurors, prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges, but did not seem to have a "rational understanding of the roles" they played in her case. Note: How interesting that the first judge in Lindauer's, , case ended up becoming the U.S. attorney general. Mukasey also defended Larry Silverstein, owner of the lease on the World Trade Centers, in his claims for double insurance payments of $7 billion on the attacks. Now according to the second judge, , she is "highly intelligent" yet incapable of understanding the roles of those involved in a trail. Hmmmm. Watch the video of her, you will likely agree that something is fishy here. Case dropped against aide accused of helping Iraq January 16, 2009, Fox News/ http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Jan16/0,4670,IraqSpyCase,00.html. The government has quietly dropped its case against a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency but later ruled mentally unfit for trial. But Susan Lindauer said she won't go away quietly. [She] vowed to sue, saying she was falsely arrested and prosecuted. "I am furious. I am going to be filing a civil lawsuit seeking punitive damages," Lindauer said Friday. Prosecutors said in court papers filed Thursday that prosecuting Lindauer would no longer be in the interests of justice. During a hearing last year, psychiatrist Stuart Kleinman, who examined Lindauer at prosecutors' request, said Lindauer has a serious, long-standing mental disorder that includes grandiose delusions. She had been jailed for about a year but released from custody in 2006 after another judge ruled the government could not force her to be medicated for her delusions so she could stand trial. Lindauer said she helped provide information for years to the U.S. government about Iraq and Libya. She said she was prosecuted in retaliation for opposing the invasion of Iraq. The federal government has dropped its case against a former congressional aide accused of helping an Iraqi spy agency, saying in court papers that prosecuting her would no longer be in the interests of justice. But Susan Lindauer has vowed to sue, saying that she was falsely arrested and prosecuted. The Takoma Park, Md., woman was arrested in 2004 on charges that she conspired to act as a spy for the Iraqi intelligence service, making contact through the Iraqi consulate in New York. A judge last year ruled Lindauer was mentally unfit for trial. Video Talk: Susan Lindauer Reveals Government 9/11 Foreknowledge August 2011, Portland 9/11 Truth Alliance Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GxJTwbHdH6k. [Minute 1:20] I was the second non-Arab American ever indicted on the Patriot Act. [Minute 3:20] In five years [under indictment], I was allowed one morning of testimony with two witnesses – a former chief of staff for a . member of Congress and my old friend [Professor Godfrey Parke] who verified the 9/11 warnings that I'm going to talk about. [Minute 7:40] In April of 2001, I was summoned to my CIA handler Dr. Richard Fuisz. He said he had a message for me to deliver to New York. And the message was this: "We are looking for information on a conspiracy to hijack airplanes. We expect the target to be the World Trade Center. We think they're going to fly the airplanes into the World Trade Center. And we want the Iraqis to provide any 'actionable intelligence.' We want you to tell the Iraqis that if they fail to give us this information and if it is later determined that they knew the information and they did not to give it to us, then the United States is prepared to go to war with Iraq." . [Minute 41:15] I was locked up in prison on a military base for a year. I was held under indictment for five years. The government was so threatened by what I was going to say that . they wanted to forcibly drug me with Haldol, Ativan, and Prozac, which would have chemically lobotomized me. They could not identify anything wrong with me except that I argued that . I had worked in antiterrorism for nine years and I warned about 9/11. They actually petitioned the court on the Patriot Act for the right to detain me up to 10 years in prison with no trial and no hearing. They wanted to lock me up and forcibly drug me at the same time. [Minute 47:15] Judge Mukasey also did the . insurance claims on 9/11 for Larry Silverstein. They both attended the same synagogue. Note: Larry Silverstein obtained the first private lease ever on the World Trade Center buildings just months before the 9/11 attacks. In a PBS documentary on 9/11 discussing the free fall collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7, Silverstein stated, "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander. . I said . maybe the smartest thing to do is to pull it. And they made that decision to pull, and then we watched the building collapse." For more on this high strangeness, click here. 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See our exceptional archive of revealing news articles. Subscribe here to the WantToKnow.info email list (two messages a week) Subscribe here to our free email list for two information-packed emails per week. Extreme Prejudice : The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq by Susan Lindauer (2010, Trade Paperback) С самой низкой ценой, совершенно новый, неиспользованный, неоткрытый, неповрежденный товар в оригинальной упаковке (если товар поставляется в упаковке). Упаковка должна быть такой же, как упаковка этого товара в розничных магазинах, за исключением тех случаев, когда товар является изделием ручной работы или был упакован производителем в упаковку не для розничной продажи, например в коробку без маркировки или в пластиковый пакет. См. подробные сведения с дополнительным описанием товара. Extreme prejudice : the terrifying story of the Patriot Act and the cover ups of 9/11 and Iraq : the ultimate conspiracy to silence truth. 1. The War on Truth -- 2. Advance Warnings About 9/11 -- 3. Peace Asset -- 4.A Secret Day in the Life of an Asset -- 5. Iraq's Peace Overtures to Europe and the United States -- 6.9/11: A Pattern of Command Negligence with Michael Collins -- 7. September 11, 2001 -- 8. Iraq's Cooperation with 9/11 Investigation -- 9. Iraq's Contribution to 9/11 Investigation Part 2 -- 10. Blessed Are the Peacemakers -- pt. 2 The Trouble With Truth -- 11. The Old Potomac Two Step -- 12. The Battle For Peace -- 13. The Last Days -- 14. Good Night, Saigon . -- 15. Warning. This Message Contains Democracy -- 16. The Crying Game -- 17. The Patriot Act -- 18. The Case of the Missing Trial -- 19. Secret Debriefings and the "New Psychiatry" (A Little Intelligence War) -- 20. Incompetent to Stand Trial -- 21. The Bright Secret -- 22. Carswell Prison -- 23. If at First You Don't Succeed, Shoot the Hostage -- 24. Corruption at Carswell -- 25. Prison Diary -- 26. The Friendly Skies of "Con Air" -- 27. Extreme Prejudice -- 28. Metropolitan Correctional Center -- 29. The Last Man -- 30. Illegitimus Non Carborundem Est -- 31. American Cassandra -- 32. Vindication -- 33."Off with Her Head," the Red Queen Said -- 34. Dialogue! Dialogue! And Democracy! Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq. NEW SECOND EDITION. What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war? What would happen to the people who know the truth? EXTREME PREJUDICE delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA’s advance warning of 9/11 and an insider’s look at Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War. It reveals the depths of deception by leaders in Washington and London to promote a successful image of their terrorism policy, and the shocking brutality to suppress the truth of their failures from Americans and the world community. Former Congressional staffer Susan Lindauer covered Iraq and Libya at the United Nations, as a U.S. Intelligence Asset and back door channel on anti-terrorism from 1993 to 2003. Most notoriously, in the summer of 2001, her team warned about a major terrorist attack involving airplane hijackings and a strike on the World Trade Center. Lindauer also campaigned heavily against the War in Iraq, and developed a comprehensive peace framework through her back-channel in the run up to War. This is the story of what happened when Lindauer tried to disclose the true facts of Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence and the 9/11 warning to Congress and the American people. It details the nightmare of her arrest on the Patriot Act and her imprisonment without a trial at the notorious prison inside Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. EXTREME PREJUDICE is a true life spy thriller. Paperback: 456 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 15, 2010) Speaking of CIA drug trafficking , Susan Lindauer claims the CIA were accused of heroin trafficking in Lebanon. She claims the Defence Intelligence Agency filed a complaint about it and had conducted an investigation gathering evidence in Lebanon to prove their case. They boarded with the evidence and it was subject to a “terrorist” bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. She claims the real person responsible for the Lockerbie bombing lives 8 miles from her house, in Fairfax County, Virginia with asylum and protection from the CIA. Turns out it was indeed Major Charles McKee, of the Defence Intelligence Agency, who filed the complaint and gathered evidence in Beirut. McKee, Gannon and three other members of the team decided to fly back to CIA HQ and expose the COREA unit’s deal with al- Kassar. They booked seats on Pan Am 103. In his book, Lockerbie: The Tragedy of Flight 103, Scottish radio reporter David Johnston described how CIA agents helicoptered into Lockerbie shortly after the crash. They were looking for McKee’s suitcase. Immediately after the Lockerbie Bombing, a quantity of heroin was found on a Lockerbie golf course and a suitcase full of heroin was discovered by a farmer a couple of miles to the. Susan Lindauer: Lockerbie Diary-Gadhaffi, Fall Guy for CIA Drug Running. By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia.His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S. Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking in Lebanon during the 1980s.As sources go, I was more than a casual observer. From May 1995 until March 2003, I performed as a back channel to Tripoli and Baghdad, supervised by my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed from day one to know the origins of the Lockerbie conspiracy and the identity of the terrorists. http://issuepedia.org/1998-12-04_Susan_Lindauer_Deposition He swore that no Libyan participated in the attack.Armed with that assurance, our team started talks with Libya’s diplomats for the Lockerbie Trial, and I attended over 150 meetings at the Libyan Embassy in New York. After the hand over of Libya’s two accused men, our team engaged in a concerted fight to gain permission for Dr. Fuisz to give a deposition about his primary knowledge of the conspiracy, during the Lockerbie Trial. In a surprise twist, the U.S. Federal Judge in Alexandria, Virginia imposed a double seal on a crucial portion of Dr. Fuisz’s deposition. The double seal can only be opened by a Scottish Judge. In my opinion, that should be a priority, as testimony hidden by the double seal maps out the whole Lockerbie conspiracy. Most significantly, it identifies 11 terrorists involved in the attack. Dr. Fuisz’s testimony could put the whole matter to rest forever. There’s good reason for my confidence. Much to my surprise, during the Lockerbie talks, Dr. Fuisz’s allegations of CIA opium running in Lebanon received unusual corroboration. One day, as I left the office of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun on my lunch break, an older spook caught up with me in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. From out of nowhere, he stepped in my path and invited me to lunch. With extraordinary candor, he debriefed me as to what motivated the CIA’s actions. I remember it as one battle-hardened old spook sharing the perils of fieldwork with a gung ho young Asset, anxious to get started on great adventures. It was a morality tale for sure. According to him, the CIA infiltrated opium and heroin trafficking in Lebanon as part of a crisis operation to rescue AP reporter Terry Anderson and 11 other American and British hostages in Beirut, including CNN bureau chief Jeremy Levin and Anglican envoy Terry Waite. The hostage crisis was a legitimate CIA concern. The CIA Station Chief of Beirut, William Buckley, was also kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and brutally tortured to death, his body dumped in the street in front of CIA headquarters. The rescue was protracted and complicated by Lebanon’s Civil War—ultimately, Terry Anderson’s captivity lasted seven years. Many of the hostages suffered beatings, solitary confinement chained to the floor, and mock executions. The older spook who refused to identify himself swore that the CIA considered it urgently necessary to try every possibility for recovering the hostages. The concept of infiltration into criminal networks cuts to the murky nature of intelligence itself. Drug enforcement frequently rely on the same strategies. Where the CIA went far wrong was in pocketing some of those heroin profits for itself along the way. The dirty little secret is that the CIA continued to take a percentage cut of opium and heroin production out of Lebanon well into the 1990s. As for the hostage rescue itself, considering the operation took years to accomplish, it’s always been whispered that a corrupted CIA officer enjoying those opium profits might have swallowed reports on the hostages’ locations, or otherwise diverted his team in order to protect his narcotics income. That appears to have become a serious fear at the time, among other U.S. officers jointly involved in the rescue. In December 1988, infuriated Defense Intelligence agents issued a formal protest, exposing CIA complicity in Middle East heroin trafficking. When teams from both agencies got summoned back to Washington to attend an internal hearing, they boarded Pan Am 103. A wing of militant Hezbollah led by Ahmed Jibril, his nephew Abu Elias, Abu Talb and Abu Nidal took out both teams in order to protect their lucrative cartel. Classified Defense Intelligence records show that Jibril and Talb had been toying with a conspiracy to bomb a U.S. airplane during the 1988 Christmas holidays anyway. They planned to bomb a U.S. airliner in revenge for the U.S.S. Vincennes, which shot down an Iranian commercial airliner loaded with Hajiis returning from Mecca in July, 1988. However the Defense Intelligence threat to expose their heroin network put the bombing plan into action. Islamic Jihad’s ability to discover actionable intelligence on the flight schedules would definitely confirm that somebody at CIA was operating as a double agent, keeping Islamic Jihad a step ahead of the rescue efforts. That’s the dirty truth about Lockerbie. It ain’t nothing like you’ve been told. Wait a darn moment—I anticipate your confusion. Libya got blamed for the Lockerbie attack. Daddy George Bush told us so! The United Nations imposed sanctions on Libya, demanding that Colonel Moammar Gadhaffi hand over two Libyans for trial. One of the two, Lameen Fhima got acquitted immediately. The other Abdelbasset Megrahi got convicted (on the most flimsy circumstantial evidence that overlooked endless contradictions). Libya paid $2.7 billion in damages—amounting to $10 million per family death— to make the U.N. sanctions go away, and expressed a sort of non-apology for the deaths—while never acknowledging its involvement in the conspiracy. So Libya was innocent the whole time? In a word, yes. Don’t get me wrong: I have no soft spot for Libya. As an Asset, I saw that no matter the flowing promises of friendship, at heart Libyans hearken to their glory days as Bedouin raiders. It’s pathological, not personal. They are deeply tribal and Islamic, which often makes them paranoid and suspicious of outsiders. They have an ancient history of raiding each other’s camps, back and forth, stealing livestock, women and children. One of my best diplomatic sources had a tattoo on his wrist, because his grandmother feared he would be kidnapped as a small child (in the 1950s). Libya simply does not have a history of believing that it needs to keep promises to individuals outside their clans. That’s not part of their heritage. That vendetta culture bodes dangerously for the current rebellion. Even after Gadhaffi’s gone, in all likelihood these tribal families will continue to exact vengeance on one another. It remains to be seen whether the new government will hide those clashes to protect its image of cohesion and legitimacy to the outside world. In truth, Libyan culture poses a threat to itself most of all. I don’t say that about just any Arab country. I enjoy Arab culture very much. I just know better than to do favors for Gadhaffi. His actions often mask some other agenda. But the bottom line is that Libya had nothing to do with the bombing of Pan Am 103, which exploded over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. We should care about Lockerbie because of the serious problem that it exposed. Opium trafficking out of the Bekaa Valley provides a major source for global heroin production. In turn, the global pipeline of narco-dollars keep militant operations alive world-wide from the Middle East to Indonesia, Colombia, Burma and the Far East.