Lawmakers Question Pakistan’s Role in Bin Laden’s Protection

The Takeaway

For nearly a decade, Osama bin Laden has been believed to be hiding out along the Pakistani-Afghan border. But the 9-11 mastermind was found and targeted just an hour north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, in a large compound in the city of Abbottabad. Is it possible that the Pakistani government was unaware that the world’s most hunted man was just miles away from their capitol city? That’s the question lawmakers like Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) want to get answered. We talk this morning withRep. Mike Conaway  (R-Texas), a member of House Armed Services Committee, who recently returned from a trip to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq with House Speaker John Boehner.

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