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A few details to keep in mind when you read various stories about this woman:
1. She was not charged with being a spy or an intelligence agent. She was charged with, among other things, being an unregistered foreign agent (which covers people like lobbyists, not spies) and taking undeclared payments from a state sponsor of terrorism.
2. Between 1993 and 2002, she worked for four different congressmen and a senator (Peter DeFazio, Ron Wyden, Carol Moseley-Braun and Zoe Lofgren), all of whom are Democrats.
3. Her cousin, Andrew Card, is reportedly the one who turned her in when she came to him touting of her Iraqi contacts.
3. Interspersed with her work on the Hill, she was a journalist for, among others, US News and World Report and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (mottoes: "Intelligent as a Post" and "I'm intelligencer than you!").
4. In recent years, she has been involved in certain leftist anti-war groups. The Cuban Communist organ Granma identified her in early 2003 as a co-founder of an anti-war group called "Citizens for Public Integrity".
5. Her co-defendants were also not charged with espionage (though given who they are, charges could follow), but they were charged with making false statements to Federal invesigators.
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