1. Susan Lindauer was born on July 17,1963 and is an American journalist and former US Congressional staffer who was charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and violating US financial sanctions during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Susan Lindauer was incarcerated in 2005 and released the next year after two judges ruled her mentally unfit to stand trial.
Since 2011 Lindauer has appeared frequently on television and in print as a US government critic.
Susan Lindauer is the daughter of John Howard Susan Lindauer II, a newspaper publisher and former Republican nominee for Governor of Alaska.
Susan Lindauer attended East Anchorage High School in Anchorage, Alaska, where she was an honor student and was in school plays.
Susan Lindauer graduated from Smith College in 1985 and then earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics.
Susan Lindauer began in journalism working as a temporary reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1987, and as an editorial writer at The Everett Herald in Everett, Washington until 1989.
Susan Lindauer worked as a Congressional staffer for Representative Peter DeFazio and then Representative Ron Wyden before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, where she worked as a press secretary and speech writer.
Susan Lindauer served as Press Secretary for Representative Zoe Lofgren from March 11,2002 to May 14,2002.
In November 1993, a friend of Susan Lindauer's father introduced her to former Vietnam War combat pilot Paul Hoven at a restaurant next to The Heritage Foundation.
Susan Lindauer began socializing in an informal circle of conservatives interested in counterterrorism, including Capitol Hill staff and intelligence community members, including Dr Richard Fuisz and, according to an article posted on New Zealand website Scoop, senior Congressional staffer Kelly O'Meara.
Susan Lindauer has described Fuisz as her Central Intelligence Agency "contact" and "handler".
At the time of Susan Lindauer's first meeting with Fuisz, theories of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 were divided between blaming the Libyan government under Moammar Gaddafi and the Syrian Ahmed Jabril.
Susan Lindauer said that Fuisz had shared with her his belief that the US government had falsely pinned the blame on Libya.
Susan Lindauer said she began making visits to the Libyan mission at the United Nations in 1995 and with Iraqis at the UN in 1996.
Card later told the FBI that Susan Lindauer had tried to contact him several times, but according to a statement by White House spokesman Scott McClellan, Card did not recall seeing or talking to Susan Lindauer after the January 2001 inauguration.
On March 11,2004, Susan Lindauer was arrested in Takoma Park, Maryland by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Susan Lindauer was taken to the FBI office in Baltimore.
Susan Lindauer was indicted by a grand jury for "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government", an accusation usually made against foreign spies.
The indictment against Susan Lindauer alleged that she accepted US$10,000 from the Iraqi Intelligence Service in 2002.
Susan Lindauer denied receiving the money, but confirmed taking a trip to Baghdad.
Robert Precht, an Assistant Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, said the charges were "weak" and that Susan Lindauer was more likely a "misguided peacenik".
Susan Lindauer was released on bond on March 13,2004 to attend an arraignment the following week.
Susan Lindauer claimed she was conducting peace negotiations with representatives of several Muslim countries in New York.
Susan Lindauer said that the US intelligence community was aware of these meetings and was monitoring her.
In 2005, Susan Lindauer was incarcerated at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, for psychological evaluation.
Susan Lindauer was then moved to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
In 2006, she was released after judge Michael B Mukasey ruled that Lindauer was unfit to stand trial.
Susan Lindauer noted that the severity of Lindauer's mental illness, which he described as a "lengthy delusional history", weakened the prosecution's case.
At a hearing in June 2008, Susan Lindauer told reporters that she had been a CIA asset and said she had "been hung out to dry and scapegoated".
In 2008, Justice Loretta A Preska of the Federal District Court in New York City reaffirmed that Lindauer was mentally unfit to stand trial, despite Lindauer's insistence to the contrary.
Susan Lindauer wrote that for a number of years she had worked for the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency undertaking communications with the Iraqi government and serving as a back-channel in US government negotiations.