- Susan Lindauer, a journalist and former
Congressional aide, held in federal correctional facility six months for
psychiatric evaluation after bogus espionage charges dropped. Lindauer
told Bush officials, including Card, Iraq was no threat according to her
intelligence sources, but became a target herself.
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- The story of another American political
prisoner needs to be told, a story about journalist Susan Lindauer illegally
jailed and placed under psychiatric evaluation for urging the U.S. government
not to attack Iraq since it had no weapons of mass destruction.
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- As bizarre as it sounds, it's true according
to Mark Bilk, J. Buford Fields and Janet Phelan, three concerned citizens
and activists trying to get Lindauer released from a federal correctional
center.
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- Lindauer,42, an ex-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
reporter, former U.S. Congressional aide and a cousin of White House Chief
of Staff, Andrew Card, was charged in March 2004 with espionage for conspiring
to act as a spy and being an unregistered Iraqi agent.
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- Although the espionage charge has since
been dropped, U.S. prosecutors originally alleged the antiwar activist
accepted $10,000 from Hussein's intelligence unit over five years and sought
to support resistance groups after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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- Lindauer always had categorically denied
accepting Iraqi money, saying she was framed for wanting to go public about
sensitive information she possessed about the illegal Iraqi invasion, as
well as information she was going to publish clearly demonstrating that
Pan Am Flight 103 was an inside government job and blown up over Lockerbie,
Scotland, by Syrians, not Libyans as the U.S. insists.
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- Lindauer has recently been charged with
posing as an unregistered lobbyist, but jailed six months ago even though
she has not been convicted of a crime, technically being held for psychiatric
observation.
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- Although the Arctic Beacon has tried
to interview Lindauer this week, federal authorities are not allowing her
to talk to the media, as she remains essentially a political prisoner,
according to the trio of activists fighting for her release, at MCC NEW
YORK METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER, 150 PARK ROW, NEW YORK, NY under
the inmate number of 56064-054.
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- "She's been imprisoned by the federal
government for six months for psychiatric evaluation, despite the fact
that she was found to be quite sane by a court-appointed psychiatrist who
had many sessions with her before her imprisonment," said Bilk Wednesday
on Greg Szymanski's popular radio show, The Investigative Journal, making
a case for Lindauer's immediate release.
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- "We are urgently seeking legal representation
for Susan Lindauer, a journalist who met with some Iraqis associated with
the UN delegation, and then through her cousin Andrew Card, the White House
Chief of Staff, urged the U.S. government not to attack Iraq since it had
no weapons of mass destruction.
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- "She has not been tried, much less
convicted of a crime. She's now being held in a New York City federal
prison. She's scheduled for a hearing as early as May 2, next week to determine
whether she should be forcibly drugged."
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- The trio of activists finally decided
to take to the airwaves on Szymanski's radio show after becoming fruistrated
with the mainstream media who has ignored the case, downplaying its importance.
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- Lindauer has been jailed since last October
for psychiatric evaluation despite the fact she was found mentally competent
by a court-appointed psychiatrist who evaluated Landauer numerous times
before her imprisonment.
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- She is schedule for a May 4 competency
hearing in a New York courtroom and Bilk and the others fear she'll be
"locked away as insane" to avoid a trial or public debate on
the charges. Further, the hearing is being held to determine if the state
will be allowed to forcibly continue administering drugs without her consent.
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- For rest of story and more informative
articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com
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