Hunting bin Laden in Pakistan

This piece is based on comments from a former CIA "bin Laden hunter": "Former CIA agent's hunt for bin Laden in Pakistani badlands." A couple of things jump out besides the novelty of getting some news reporting on this (which seems to me to be exceptionally rare...). According to this guy the CIA's hunt for al Queda in Pakistan has been chronically short staffed b/c of Iraq & the Pakistani gov't signs off on "99%" of the drone strikes in Pakistan.