Robert Seldon Lady: The Antiterror Spy Left Out In The Cold -- Wall Street Journal
Caught up in a terrorist rendition debacle, Robert Lady is wanted in Italy, lost his house and marriage, and says he has been abandoned by the CIA.
When the anniversary of 9/11 came around this year, Robert Seldon Lady was moving between low-end hotels around Miami. An international arrest warrant keeps him from returning to his home in Panama. He says he's flirting with personal bankruptcy, fears for his life, and is "getting pretty desperate." His marriage is broken. He blames this hard luck on his former employer, the Central Intelligence Agency.
A decade ago, Mr. Lady served on the front lines of America's antiterror efforts after 9/11, heading up the agency's base in Milan. In the 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush credited him and his colleagues, albeit not by name, for dismantling several al Qaeda cells in that Italian city. "We've got the terrorists on the run," Mr. Bush said. "We're keeping them on the run." Mr. Lady's Italian stint capped a near quarter-century covert CIA career in Latin America, Asia and Europe.
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My Comment: After 24 years of service you would think that someone in the CIA would answer his phone calls .... but it is clear that he is now 'persona grata' in the Agency.
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