Coulter 2004 charge of ‘Dems on Saddam’s Payroll’ = Lindauer set up: Cannonfire

Susan Lindauer worked for Ron Weyden, Carol Mosely-Braun and some other Hill Democrats.
What a perfect set up for the Coulter charges of Dems housing traitors on their staff. Their lies continue to unravel.

http://tinyurl.com/328o93">Politicizing the Justice Department: Remember Susan Lindauer? CANNONFIRE - Joseph Cannon

In the run-up to the 2004 campaign, sensational news stories convinced much of the public that "Democratic activist" Susan Lindauer, a former aide to Carol Moseley Braun, had conspired with two Iraqi agents to pass secrets to Saddam Hussein.

Cue the sirens! The right-wing media machine went on the attack. Hadn't Ann Coulter predicted that we'd soon have evidence that Saddam kept key Dems on the payroll? Now l'affaire Lindauer proved the point.

In early 2004, this country was a very different place.

That was the season of Coulter's Treason, the era of a revived McCarthyism. All liberals, we heard, possess an ineradicable predisposition to collude with the enemy. Susan Lindauer exemplified her traitorous breed. (For a particularly ripe example of this sort of attack, see here.

Then the actual indictment against Lindauer appeared on The Smoking Gun. I gave that cunningly written document a close reading, and discovered that all this "Mata Hari" talk was nonsense.

She had no relationship -- zero -- to the other two Iraqis. Two utterly separate cases had been conflated in order to make her seem like a spy.

SNIP

All of the foregoing functions as an introduction to Michael Collins' study of the Lindauer Affair, which comes to us by way of Scoop Independent News. I've privately described to Collins my view that Lindauer was deliberately set up to play the fall girl in a Rovian "theater piece." Collins replied that this theory explains why the Republicans did nothing about Lindauer until election season rolled around -- even though her activities had occurred much earlier, and even though she had made sure that Andy Card knew about every move she made.

The efficacy with which this cabal has tarnished the good names of true defenders of the Constitution and the rule of law is absolutely staggering.

Hope she has further protection.

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we'll get the story!

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This woman needs a new lawyer, as you know. And what about the ACLU?

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Thank god Michael Collins is on it! That guy is tenacious.

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it all made sense. Kick and recommend...

Let's hope this gets some "Legs" and one day helps with that legislation that needs to go on long after this "Criminal Gang" thinks they are "safe" because they are out of the White House or Congress.

It's gonna be a long time going....like Pinochet investigation and Nuremburg Trials...but it's gotta come...and every whistleblower who can get their story out makes it faster for documentation.

Thanks!

It is important and yes, we are totally screwed if "they" want us to be. Just say, "Hey _______ is
crazy and lock you away on some half assed terror law. I was extraordinary disappointed in
Mukasey talking about extraordinary measures during a "time of war." We're not at war, it's not declared, Congress (haha rofl) does that. What a lame answer that was. The guy made a big mistake confining Lindauer to the prison for psych evaluation and then he showed guts and intelligence when he dismissed the psych testimony, said the case was bull shit, and let her go.

But that first error is the one that has people at risk.

The Bush regime is staffed with lunatics who are getting desperate.

Vigilance!

I've had two other people comment on "gibberish" in my messages, not the normal type but strange characters etc. They both had Macs.

Nothing against Macs, just asking to figure out if it's me;)