> The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence a

> The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance Well, duh. The ISI officers and generals needed to be able to claim that and if the US people wanted their co-operation they needed to provide plausible deniability. I am confused as to why this is presented as remotely surprising.