After at least three solid years of burying the truth at the behest of the Obama Administration, the Associated Press finally got around to revealing that missing “retired FBI agent” Robert Levinson was actually working for the CIA at the time he vanished.
While declining to make any comments on the long-standing secret, or the status of Levinson, the White House did take time out to condemn the AP for the “highly irresponsible” act of finally reporting the story.
The AP said they had withheld the story before because the administration claimed to have leads that would lead to Levinson’s release, but published after officials conceded those leads had run dry.
While the AP chose to just duck the issue for three years, the New York Times, which knew for at least six years, overtly lied about the matter repeatedly, reporting the official claims of Levinson being a “private businessman” as a statement of fact even though they knew full well that was not the case.
The National Security Council also issued a statement expressing “regret” that the AP finally reported the truth, saying they had warned the AP not to “out of concern for Mr. Levinson’s life.”
The CIA has yet to comment on the matter, but did pay Levinson’s family $2.5 million to promise not to sue them in an attempt to keep the secret from going public.
Concern for Levinson's life?
What can the life of a fascist spy be worth?
I don't understand the uproar…he was/is a spy. If he is still alive he should consider himself lucky since spies are usually executed during wars, especially when the spy's handlers start denying ownership and pay off the spy''s family.
Still more evidence that there is very little put out by the FedGov that can regarded as anything but a falsehood. Jay Carney's bleating that Levinson was not a "government employee," for example, is a riot. Of course Leveinson wasn't a "government employee," Jay! He was a contractor being paid $85,000 a year. And that means that he actually was "working for the US government."
How dare AP make the Obama administration look like idiots when they've been doing such a fine job of it themselves.
An interesting phenomena in this whole case is that his so called guantanamo pictures which are touted by the family.. appear to be fairly obvious fakes.
The last picture is an age progression.
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/world/detail/2?p…
and then they copied and pasted the progression headshot into the Guantanamo pictures. See that post bring dad home…
http://www.helpboblevinson.com/
This whole case feels like the office of special plans and adam gadan wrapped into one…