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"Hillary Clinton’s book Hard Choices has been dismissed by many as short on news. Yet on the most important foreign policy event of her tenure as Secretary of State, the killing of Osama bin Laden, Hard Choices actually offers important new insights into the administration’s thinking about Pakistan’s role in helping to hide high-value Target Number One for almost a decade."
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"The president’s decision not to tell Pakistan was, of course, the right one to make—but it was truly extraordinary in perspective. By 2011 the United States had provided over $25 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan since 9/11 for precisely one purpose: to fight al Qaeda. Two Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, had provided 18 F16 jet fighters, eight P3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, 6,000 TOW anti-tank missiles, 500 AMRAM air-to-air missiles, six C-130 transport aircraft, 20 Cobra attack helicopters and a Perry class frigate to the Pakistani military to encourage them to fight al Qaeda. Yet at the moment of truth, the President and the Secretary of State decided they could not trust the ISI with information on the location of al Qaeda’s leader. "
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