User blog comment:Cackling Shadow/How long have they REALLY been here?/@comment-432124-20130114024526/@comment-4928331-20130114045720

I agree with Cari on this one. Remember, Vandal Savage tells the new member of the inner circle, Mr. Black Manta, about the Light's NEW Partner. He didn't need to lie.

Unless of course BM's on the side of the angels all along, and this was one massive Xanatos roulette about BM trying to outmanuever the Light, Aqualad trying to outmanuever BM, and the Light manipulating events to make Sportsmaster/Cheshire take both of them down while maintaining plausible deniability.