Susan Lindauer: Encyclopedia II - Susan Lindauer - Employment

Susan Lindauer - Employment

Lindauer worked at Fortune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and U.S. News & World Report before beginning a career as a political publicist. She then worked for Representative Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon (1993) and then Representative Ron Wyden, D-Oregon (1994) before joining the office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun, D-Illinois, where she worked as a press secretary/speech writer.

After leaving Capitol Hill, Lindauer worked as a back-door channel between the United States and Libya to start negotiations for the Lockerbie trial, working closely with American agencies. In the course of that effort, she established special contacts in difficult to reach Arab countries, including Iraq, Egypt and Yemen, for the purpose of achieving cooperation on anti-terrorism. After Libya handed over the two men for the Lockerbie Trial, Lindauer applied the same conflict resolution strategies to help persuade Iraq to accept the return of the weapons inspectors according to the terms and conditions demanded by the United States-- Throughout all stages, her work was closely scrutinized and guided by U.S. foreign policy agencies.

Lindauer faces up to 10 years in prison on the most serious charge and five years on the lesser charge if convicted.

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