Forget Assange, isn't this dangerously close to being illegal?

Rumsfeld, an important member of Bush's team is as much responsible as Bush himself for the Pakistan problem to begin with.

Dysfunctional Pakistan has poor U. S. over the barrel. US can NOT use its aid leverage to force Pakistan to stop supporting terrorist groups who kill US/NATO troops in Afghanistan day in and day out because US needs Pakistan’s help in ferrying supplies to those very US/NATO troops.

U. S. loves Pakistan’s duplicity - on the one hand it allows US to ferry supplies to US troops in Afghanistan over its soil since it pays billions to Pakistan and on the other hand it shelters, nurtures and supports the very groups who kill those very US troops in Afghanistan day in and day out.

This charade has been going on since 2001 when the Bush administration allowed Musharraf to spirit away by airlift hundreds, if not thousands, of Taliban operatives cornered by the advancing Northern Alliance in Kunduz in November, 2001. Pakistan relocated those Taliban cadres including Mullah Mohammed Omar in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan and Haqqani network (HQN) in North Waziristan from where Mullah Omar’s QST and Haqqani’s HQN have been planning raids in Afghanistan ever since.

Only solution is what Richard Armitage threatened Pakistan with in 2001 - invade and occupy Pakistan to root out the terrorists operating from there since Pakistani government owned by Pakistani army is unwilling to do so.

But after ten long years of war, US has neither the desire nor the resources to save Pakistan from itself.

So this Pakistani drama of ’running with the hares while hunting with the hounds’ and US drama of ’fighting the terrorists and supporting the state that shelters the terrorists’ will continue until US looses the face and withdraws from Afghanistan in disgrace.

For having deliberately ignored Pakistan's terrorist connections, US deserves to be duped by Pakistan.