Former U.S. Aide Accused of Working With Iraq

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: March 12, 2004

WASHINGTON, March 11 — 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., outside Washington. In New York, 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 . . .

"My parents went to Bagdad to be Human Shields and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."