The case of Susan Lindauer, arrested under the Patriot Act in 2004 is in serious need of publicity. Those Americans who continue to live in the aura of fear thrust upon us by the George W. Bush administration have to realize that the Patriot Act is an abhorrent abrogation of citizen rights guaranteed by the Constitution of these United States. The case of Susan Lindauer clearly demonstrates that fear of our own government may be of more relevance than fear of supposed terrorists. The lawless Bush administration should have made it clear to all that the protections placed in our constitution are necessary for our protection in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Michael Collins: In an unprecedented judicial ploy that lasted five years, federal prosecutors blocked Ms. Lindauer’s rights to trial or any other sort of evidentiary hearings that would test her story. For 11 months, she was confined at Carswell federal prison on a Texas military base and at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, without a conviction or plea bargain.
During the indictment, she was conveniently gagged from sharing her direct knowledge of Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, which she gained as a primary asset covering the Iraqi Embassy at the United Nations from August, 1996 onwards. She was also silenced from talking about the advance warning she gave the Office of Counter-Terrorism and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s private staff in August, 2001, about possible airplane hijackings and a reprise of the 1993 World Trade Center attack.
In March 2004 Susan Lindauer was arrested after contacting the offices of Senators Trent Lott and John McCain and asked to testify before the new blue-ribbon Presidential Commission on Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence. Lindauer was arrested at a time when George Bush appeared to be loosing to Senator John Kerry in the tight presidential race of 2004.
Lindauer: Imagine if American voters had known that the 9/11 strike was not a surprise to U.S. Intelligence! Would it have changed any votes if Americans had known the truth? That throughout the summer of 2001, there were extensive discussions about possible airplane hijackings and a reprise of the 1993 World Trade Center attack, specifically?
In August 2001, we thought the attack was “imminent.” At the instruction of my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, I personally alerted the private staff of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Office of Counter-Terrorism at the Justice Department about our fears, asking for their cooperation in issuing an emergency alert throughout all agencies for any fragment of intelligence or suspicious activity that might help us pre-empt a conspiracy to hijack and/or bomb airplanes.
There was never any question that it was a cheap, political indictment engineered by ruthless White House staff, including my own cousin, Andy Card, afraid of losing Bush’s re-election.
Any jury would recognize that I had legitimate reason for participating in the 9/11 investigation as a “first-responder,” not to mention that I’m one of the few individuals who openly warned about 9/11 for several months before the attack. I still think a New York jury would have applauded me.
Susan Lindauer’s nightmare was ended five days before the Obama inauguration with the prosecution dropping charges.
For details see Michael Collins’s interviews with Susan Lindauer at:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00130.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00028.htm
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