Susan Lindauer, the accused spy for Iraq, seems to have been quite well-connected.
In 1998, she testified before the Lockerbie inquiry in 1998, saying that Syria, not Libya, was responsible for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland.
She supplied a copy of her deposition to Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, where they were eager to publish anything focusing new attention on Syria.
The charges against Lindauer is that she attempted to influence US government policy by meeting informally with an official (while failing to register as a foreign agent). That official has been identied as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, her cousin.
Lindauer is the daughter of a former candidate for governor of Alaska.
A Capitol Hill staffer friend of mine has told me that this is going to be a very interesting story as the pieces of the onion are peeled away.
