remain in the gulf to counter that iranian threat. we broke the story two days ago that u.s. drone flights over iran, those spy missions being flown out of afghanistan will continue. he told me that. my sense is there s great deal of trepidation of what lies ahead but the u.s. will continue to have a very strong presence in the middle east and that the defense secretary and these soldiers and troops here today, none of them expect that they won t. be engaged in some sort of military conflict down the road or be asked to come back for training purposes. don t forget that iraq is going to be one of the largest places of u.s. weapons, they bought 18 f-16 s the other day and they re buying billions of dollars of weapons from the u.s. government. somebody is going to have to show them how to fly those f-16 s and show them how to use these weapons. all right. jennifer griffin, you ve been listening to her reporting for
executed his own flesh and blood, his uncle yang. iran is getting closer to making the bomb and there is now word that the american it is holding has been hostage for nearly 7 years, he may have been working for the cia. in iraq, ten years too the day of the capture of saddam hussein. but let s start with robert levinson. i want to discuss the operation and then a.p. s decision to run the story. eric, the administration is saying this was unsanctioned that this was a rogue group of analysts who sent him in to do spy missions and he didn t have the authority to do it. do you think the cia just giving itself from plausible deny ability. jay carney said he didn t think that leave that levinson was not working for the government when he went over to iran in 2007. i m not sure anyone knows that.