Reply #14: Michael 'Gravedigger' Mukasey [View All]

Another investigation gets buried.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/formercia/135

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Was the false FBI terror alert an attempt to drive the vote?
Posted by formercia in General Discussion: Primaries
Fri Nov 09th 2007, 09:58 AM
Don't you think it's strange that on the eve of the Mukasey confirmation vote, the FBI issues a false terror alert to shift the vote in favor of Mukasey?
I can see the thought rattling through those gentrified senatorial brains: We must have an Attorney General who is strong on terrorism. Better vote on the safe side in case the alert is real. We can't be accused of voting against the nomination in case there is an attack.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/formercia/102

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Susan Lindauer, Andrew Card's second cousin
Posted by formercia in Latest Breaking News
Mon Sep 17th 2007, 11:55 AM
committed by a panel of psychiatrists appointed by Judge Mukasey to a Texas mental facility. She supposedly delivered a letter to Card on behalf if the Iraqis imploring not to invade.
The Wiki entry presents Mukasey as a good guy, but he was responsible for taking her out of circulation in the run up to War. Public revelations of her letter were not what the Administration needed.

This may be his reward for helping keep the upcoming War on track.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindaue...

Arrest

Lindauer was arrested on Thursday, 11 March 2004 in Takoma Park, Maryland and charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government". The indictment alleged that she accepted US$ 10,000 from Iraqi intelligence services in 2002. Lindauer denies receiving the $10,000, but admits to taking a trip to Baghdad.

She allegedly delivered a letter to Andrew Card, who is her second cousin and former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. The letter urged the White House not to invade Iraq, and outlined several likely consequences of a War in Iraq, including the resurgence of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda forces inside Iraq, and the emergence of Iran as a major regional power broker.<1>

Lindauer contends that her U.S. file was turned over to a Grand Jury just days after she approached Senator Trent Lott's office about how to contact the Presidential Commission on Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence regarding the work that she had done for the previous 7 years for the United States.

In late 2005, Lindauer was found incompetent to stand trial, a political solution to the indictment, and was sent to Carswell Federal Prison on a Texas military base for a psychiatric evaluation. The prosecution asked to forcibly drug Lindauer with needle injections of Haldol. She was released from prison in September 2006 after a federal judge, Michael B. Mukasey of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, ruled that she could not be forced to take anti-psychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial.

Judge Mukasey stated that Prosecution testimony supporting forcible drugging had been vicious and excessive. He also criticized the strength of the government's case against Lindauer in total, saying that the legal standard for forcibly administering medication requires a strong government interest in prosecution, and that the government has not established that standard in this case.

According to Judge Mukasey, "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. He stated that at least a half-dozen mental health professionals, including a psychiatrist retained by the government, have found Lindauer incompetent to stand trial-- though the Court denied Lindauer's repeated requests for a Competency Hearing, and failed to issue subpoenas for witnesses who nonetheless contacted the Court to validate her story. He also expressed humanitarian concerns about forcing Lindauer to take medication, which, he said, "necessarily involves physically restraining defendant so that she can be injected with mind-altering drugs."

Lindauer is currently free on bail. She is still officially considered incompetent to stand trial, and her case is still pending.