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Jeremy Scahill: Why Is Robert Gates Downplaying Pakistan’s Link to Osama bin Laden?

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that the Obama administration has no evidence that the Pakistani government knew Osama bin Laden was living within its borders.

Press Room

May 19, 2011

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters that the Obama administration has no evidence that the Pakistani government knew Osama bin Laden was living within its borders.

But on MSNBC, The Nation‘s Jeremy Scahill asks why the administration is going to such lengths to downplay Pakistan’s involvement with the Al Qaeda leader? 

—Sara Jerving

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