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FBI agent Robert Levinson dies 'in Iranian custody,' family announces
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/25/2020 | oel Gehrke

Posted on 03/26/2020 10:00:59 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Robert Levinson, a former FBI special agent who disappeared while traveling on Iran’s Kush Island in 2007, has “died while in Iranian custody,” his family announced Wednesday. ---SNIP---

“Those who are responsible for what happened to Bob Levinson, including those in the U.S. government who for many years repeatedly left him behind, will ultimately receive justice for what they have done,” the announcement said.

That’s a reference to President Barack Obama’s administration, which did not secure Levinson’s release despite years of negotiating with Tehran in the lead-up to the implementation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2015; cigarettes; drugs; fbi; hostages; irandeal; kishisland; kushisland; levinson; obituary; robertlevinson; russianmafia; russianmob; smuggling
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Another victim of Clinton/Obama foreign policy. I guess the FBI had better things to do than lobbying for the return of their agent.
1 posted on 03/26/2020 10:00:59 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Or FBI leadership worked with Clinton/Obama to leave him there so not to skew the “optics?”


2 posted on 03/26/2020 10:03:58 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
RIP...
3 posted on 03/26/2020 10:04:00 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Kid Shelleen

Obama, the great negotiator. NOT! He gave the ayatollahs an airplane load of $100 dollar bills and couldn’t even get them to release this man in return. Despicable!


4 posted on 03/26/2020 10:05:48 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

[Another victim of Clinton/Obama foreign policy. I guess the FBI had better things to do than lobbying for the return of their agent.]


Obama is such a dirtbag. He could have gotten this guy back, but he didn’t.


5 posted on 03/26/2020 10:07:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNFT8jYcs0M


6 posted on 03/26/2020 10:07:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kid Shelleen

I guess the Secretary disavowed any knowledge of his actions.


7 posted on 03/26/2020 10:11:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kid Shelleen

An awful story. May the family find some measure of comfort and peace.


8 posted on 03/26/2020 10:12:06 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My friends-what business did he have in that country?


9 posted on 03/26/2020 10:12:16 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m sure it wasn’t a vacation. I’m sure it wasn’t his idea to go there. Some superior ordered him to go there and then slithered away.


10 posted on 03/26/2020 10:14:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Æthelblack the Unready, the First of His Jugears:

"Well, uhhh, ummm - how about we give you folks pallets of cash in exchange for not getting Robert Levinson back? Would that be OK, your Holiness?"

11 posted on 03/26/2020 10:14:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Hmmmmm? What did he know? Was it something that may have exposed some treason? The Conspiracies begin.


12 posted on 03/26/2020 10:15:13 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: Kid Shelleen

My understanding is he was retired. Any American who goes near Iran or North Korea is not thinking clearly.


13 posted on 03/26/2020 10:15:27 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: libertylover

If I had known you wanted to have words with Zerobama, I wouldn’t have flushed my toilet this morning, and you could have come over to talk to him.


14 posted on 03/26/2020 10:16:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

The unwritten Trump Doctrine should mean death to anyone who harms an American ANYWHERE in the world. As for this fella you can’t fix stupid.


15 posted on 03/26/2020 10:20:03 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; Gen.Blather

As the article says: He was a former FBI agent working as a CIA contractor.
Personally, I think he died years ago.


16 posted on 03/26/2020 10:24:39 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; bitt; ...
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PING

Another victim of Hillary/Obama foreign policy.

17 posted on 03/26/2020 10:25:35 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Some superior ordered him to go

Robert Levinson, a former FBI special agent

18 posted on 03/26/2020 10:26:45 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
It says....."He fell into the Iran's regime’s hands while working as a CIA contractor." ...Also CIA officials apologized to the Levinson family in '2008' after reportedly failing to realize that a contractor had gone missing in Iran.

13 Years in Iranian captivity


19 posted on 03/26/2020 10:34:58 AM PDT by caww
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Rest in peace, Mr. Levinson.

You deserved better.


20 posted on 03/26/2020 10:41:52 AM PDT by sauropod (Fear can turn a human into an animal. Our speech is violence. Their violence is speech.)
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