it s my understanding that he is in fact enroute or back in the united states. beyond that, i have no further details. do you know when he left? i don t have any further details. either enroute or back in the united states. they don t know? today katherine asked about it again. robert lady and his whereabouts and any contact you ve had with the italians on this case? well, i know that a couple weeks ago, my colleague marie mentioned that he was enroute back to the united states, and he was and obviously returned, he s a private citizen, we don t track his movements. beyond that, i don t have any update. any contact between the u.s. and the italians in this case. i don t have any update on that either. i don t have any update beyond what i just shared on him. he s a private citizen. he s returned to the united states. he s a private citizen, he
aga again. robert lady and his whereabouts and any contact you ve had with the italians on this case? well, i know that a couple weeks ago, my colleague marie mentioned that he was enroute back to the united states, and he was and obviously returned, he s a private citizen, we don t track his movements. beyond that, i don t have any update. any contact between the u.s. and the italians in this case. i don t have any update on that either. i don t have any update beyond what i just shared on him. he s a private citizen. he s returned to the united states. he s a private citizen, he returned to the united states, and beyond that, nothing, ed that nada, zip. the trail goes cold, gone again. this guy who naturally we do not even have a real picture of, this former cia spy has disappeared yet again. he s still a wanted man in italy, as are the 22 other
our third story out front, pan mania, so tonight, panama is at the center of another major story. this time involving one of italy s most wanted, a former american cia station chief. robert lady is wanted in italy for his role in the abduction of a terror suspect in milan. had he been hiding in panama where he was arrested this week. and today, panama put him on a plane, back to the u.s. so how did panama, a country once run by a drug lord and a tax haven for the super rich, plenty of shady things go on there, how is panama tangled up in two international disputes in one week. barbara starr is out front. reporter: when you think of panama, you think of the panama canal. but suddenly this week panama is at the center of two international intrigues.
italy, seemed like he was just kidnapped, just disappeared. and italy was very unhappy about it. so a chief deputy prosecutor who usually handled mafia investigations started to look into this matter, how did the guy just get snatched off the street? the prosecutor kept digging, and there was finally a break in the case in 2005. the prosecutor got 17 sets of cell phone records from the area and from the time that this man was taken off the streets. from those records the prosecutor was able to put together a list of people who he said must have been present when the guy as abducted. and on that list was the cia station chief for milan, a man named robert lady, omar was considered a suspect by the yourself, which is why the cia grabbed him as part of the extraordinary rendition program, where people were taken in one country and not taken back to the u.s., but instead taken to a third country, unrelated
the street in milan. it was touted as a landmark ruling, but only a symbolic one, since the defendants were not in the courtroom. robert lady was handed an eight-year sentence, they never thought he would serve it because he was in italy and they thought he would never go there again. but today, he was arrested. the italian justice ministry put out a statement saying the man has been detained and reportedly has been picked up near panama s border. so far they don t claim they even have him. as for the cia there is no comment, i don t know how long they can go on making no comment about this. we still don t know much about