Susan Lindauer to speak on 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

CIA whistleblower Susan Lindauer, who was arrested and imprisoned under the Patriot Act without trial for a year, will speak at the St. Paul Labor and Professional Building, 411 Main, St. Paul, on Tuesday, March 19, at 7 p.m.
As a reporter, Lindauer covered anti-terrorism at the Iraqi Embassy in New York from 1996 until the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Veterans Today, a military and foreign affairs journal, wrote, “Independent sources have confirmed that she gave advance warning about the 9/11 attack.”

In 2003, Lindauer, who is an American journalist and anti-war activist, was accused of “conspiring to act as an unregistered lobbyist for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions with the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein,” according to Wikipedia. According to Veterans Today, she was accused of warning the Bush Administration of the disastrous catastrophe that the Iraq invasion would be. She was one of the first non-Arab Americans arrested under the Patriot Act.

She was released in 2006 and all charges dropped in 2009.

Lindauer is the author of “Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover-Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.”

The event is presented by the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation and co-sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, Minnesota Truth, Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, and endorsed by Women Against Military Madness.