Husain Haqqani on Pakistan’s bin Laden intel
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked the former Pakistani Amb. to the U.S. Husain Haqqani if he believed high officials in Pakistan were aware of Osama bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad. Haqqani’s response is after the jump and a full transcript of Blitzer’s interview will be posted on http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2012.06.14.html.
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BLITZER: One final question. You’re now teaching at Boston University once again. You’re a professor. You can speak openly and, as you obviously do.
HAQQANI: Wolf, I used to speak openly…
BLITZER: I know…
HAQQANI: — even when I was ambassador.
BLITZER: — but you were restrained as an ambassador. Every ambassador is restrained by the government that that ambassador represents. Do you believe high officials in Pakistan knew bin Laden was hiding for years in A — at that compound in Abbottabad?
HAQQANI: Wolf, I honestly do not know. And I will not speculate. All I will say is Pakistan has to come clean. We have to find out who did know, because somebody must have known, whether they were official or not official. And the fact of the matter is that there are powerful elements in Pakistan that want to distract the conversation and simply do not want to face that fact.
We have a judiciary that will not face these kind of issues, but will create other issues that are not that significant for national life. We have media which will blame America for everything and not ask the tough questions.
And, of course, we have people in our security establishment that do not want to answer these difficult questions that the world is asking, not just you.
BLITZER: Husain Haqqani, good luck.
HAQQANI: Thank you very much.
BLITZER: Thanks for coming in.
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