Even when we get limited cooperation from Pakistan intelligence, another faction sees such help as treasonous, or at least illegal. The government has arrested several informants who helped the CIA track and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. New York Times: Pakistan's detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the weeks before the raid, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan. It comes at a time when the Obama administration is seeking Pakistan's support in brokering an endgame in the war in neighboring Afghanistan. At a closed briefing last week, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Michael J. Morell, the deputy C.I.A. director, to rate Pakistan's cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism operations, on a scale of 1 to 10. "Three," Mr. Morell replied, according to...(Read Full Post)