0 have been given, amy, a bunch of extra questions to answer. right. they have tried to become tax exempt for the last two years, still pending. and they feel intimidated. well, you know, the reality now is, if you have any link at all to politics, anyone who is associated with your group, who has made any sort of political statements, who is out front in any way, shape, or form, and you go and you apply for tax exempt status, you are going to get a level of scrutiny. both sides? right, the issue in this case clearly is that these were high profile people who also happen to be republicans. now, what s going to be curious to see is are we going to see more cases of this, of outside groups getting scrutiny or we re going to see, i think, fewer people saying or fewer people going and asking the irs for tax exempt status saying, you know what? let s just be a c 4 instead of 501 c 3 so we don t have to go through these hoops. i actually agree. i think that just because i don t k
agreed to meet with me. this meeting will take place either in dubai or on an island nearby. why didn t you say what you knew at the very start? the risks to bob. i didn t know the what the risk would be. we were told by the u.s. government by revealing what he was actually doing over there would have been harmful to his safety. now, the family is certainly grateful about on going efforts to try to bring levinson home but the factor of the matter is no one knows exactly where is he or how he is. the family wants to be able to go to iran. they re asking for permission to go back there, don, so that they can push for answers. they were there once before in 2007. is there any chance that bob levinson and others might be used as bargaining chips to help with the nuclear agreement? there are two others. the family would like to see that happen but the u.s. government has made it clear that those talks are completely separate from the americans who are being held in iran right
protect bob. reporter: do you feel he was abandoned? i feel he was left there. reporter: to boller the bolster their case, the family is sharing with cnn documents they received from a source in iran that appear to prove his arrest. neither the family nor cnn can verify whether they re authentic and his name is only partially right but according to a translation given the family by the fbi it reads a member of the u.s. federal investigation or maybe cia, robert anderson, is here as an undercover tourist taking pictures and gathering information. since his spying activities have been established, arrest him immediately. cnn has also obtained an e-mail intercepted by the family s lawyer between levinson and his cia handlers just before he left for iran. it reads an individual has agreed to meet with me. this meeting will take place either in dubai or on an island nearby.
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with them not out of any matter of principle. they denied bob s relationship to protect themselves and not to protect bob. do you feel he was abandoned. i feel he was left there. he was the man left behind to bellster their case, can the family is now sharing with cnn documents they received from a source in iran that appear to prove his arrest. neither the family nor cnn can verify whether they re authentic and his name is only partially right but according to a translation given the family by the fbi it reads a member of the u.s. federal investigation or maybe cia, robert anderson, is here as an undercover tourist taking pictures and gathering information. since his spying activities have been established, arrest him immediately. cnn has also obtained an e-mail intercepted by the family s lawyer between levinson and his cia handlers just before he left for iran. it reads an individual has