Administration left Pakistani doctor hanging after bin Laden raid

Fox News:

GOP Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, expressed concern Wednesday about the extent of the Obama administration’s efforts to protect the Pakistan doctor who was sent to prison in Pakistan for treason after helping to find Usama bin Laden. 

"This has been handled very poorly right from the time of the raid," King told Fox News.  

Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed the Al Qaeda chief  in a May 2011 raid. 

The operation outraged Pakistani officials, who portrayed it as an act of treachery by a supposed ally. 

King, R-N.Y., said administration officials talked about the doctor and his DNA sampling. 

"They put him out there," said King, who made clear he didn't know the exact details about what, if anything, the administration may have done to get the doctor out of Pakistan or otherwise protect him. "I'm focused on that they disclosed his identity." 

The doctor was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state -- a verdict officials said is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. 

Senior U.S. officials have called for Dr. Afridi to be released, saying his work served Pakistani and American interests. 

“What Dr. Afridi did is the furthest thing from treason. It was a courageous, heroic and patriotic act, which helped to locate the most wanted terrorist in the world,” said Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., members of the chamber’s Committee on Armed Services.

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The Pakistani reaction to the doctors helping us locate bin Laden suggest that country mus have been protecting bin Laden and they are angry that he was killed.  I don't buy their sovereignty argument.  They are allowing their territory to be used by the Taliban and Haqqani network to attack US and Afghan troops.  If they were really worried about sovereignty, they would exercise jurisdictions over those using their territory and stop them.  Sovereignty is a bogus issue they raise to keep us from taking action against those attacking us.

But King raises an interesting point.  The Obama administration has been tooting its own horn about the raid and they put this guy in jeopardy with their loose talk.  He is now paying the price for their perfidious conduct.