- Andy Card's cousin finally released after year in jail
for telling truth about no WMD's in Iraq.
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- The frightening story of Susan Lindauer should make every
American stand up and take notice about how the U.S. government --gone
mad with power -- is jailing innocent citizens who speak out against the
policies of the Bush administration.
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- Lindauer, 42, the cousin of former White House Chief
of Staff, Andy Card, was released in September from a New York correctional
facility after spending a year in jail, awaiting in horrendous conditions
government-imposed psychiatric evaluations.
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- A former journalist, congressional aide and U.S. intelligence
asset in the Iraqi Embassy, Lindauer tried to notify the Bush administration
through her cousin that Iraq posed no WMD threat and wanted to cooperate
with U.S. authorities to avert a conflict.
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- For her actions contrary to the Bush administration's
policy of "war at any cost without justification," Lindauer was
charged with a federal crime for being an Iraqi agent, a charge she has
vehemently denies throughout her long and unjustified incarceration.
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- "After I sent the letter to my cousin, they came
down on me hard," said Lindauer recently on Greg Szymanski's popular
radio show, The Investigative Journal, on the Genesis Radio Network at
www.gcnlive.com. "I was working for the benefit of the people, trying
to get out the truth. But the Bush administration wanted no part of that
and labeled me a terrorist because they intent on going to war even though
there were no WMD in Iraq and, in fact, the Iraqi's wanted to cooperate
with weapons inspectors in order to avert war.
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- "But I found out the hard way that the Bush administration
already made up its mind to go to war and anybody who got in their way
was going to be stepped on hard. The government charged mw with a serious
crime and I was out on bond for more than 18 months, but then about a year
ago, without any intention of going to trial, they mandated psychiatric
evaluations based on my statements and actions opposing the war.
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- "First they put me in Carswell Prison, which sits
on a military base outside of Fort Worth, Texas. I was there for seven
or eight months until being transferred to the MCC New York Metropolitan
Correctional Facility. It was such a horrendous experience and I never
thought anyone could be treated this way in America."
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- Lindauer was released last month after Federal Judge
D.J. Mukasey of the U.S. District Court, S.D. New York, ruled against the
government's motion to keep Lindauer locked away under forced medication,
saying "there is simply not enough here to warrant a finding by clear
and convincing evidence that Lindauer is substantially likely to be rendered
competent by forced medication and substantially unlikely to suffer effects
that will impinge upon a fair trial.
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- For rest of story and more informative articles, go to
www.arcticbeacon.com
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