Benazir Bhutto's asassination; why is Cheney's stink on this one too?

http://www.paktribune.com/news/print.php?id=204310

NEW YORK: The US intelligence agencies taped Benazir Bhutto`s phone calls, prior to her arrival in Pakistan, in a bid to "play under-the-table, cut-throat games more effectively", a new book has revealed.

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Suskind writes that Benazir Bhutto`s case of returning to Pakistan was strongly backed by Condoleezza Rice-led State Department and equally opposed by Vice President Dick Cheney who considered Bhutto "complicated and unpredictable".

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Author said the US National Security Agencies (NSAs) were doing this job. Regarding Bhutto`s conversation with Bilawal, he writes: "The NSA was listening. They`ve been listening to her calls for months, including an earlier call she made to her son, Bilawal. The subject of the secret is often aware that evidence has been collected that may be used to drive judgments and may be even destructive actions...The NSA, meanwhile, has harvested a number of portentous conversation of Benazir Bhutto. This should help the United States play its under the table, cut-throat games more effectively. The intercept will be cited inside the US government as evidence of Bhutto`s unfitness, her corruption. It will be used as part of a wider "carrot and stick" programme in which the United States let Bhutto know they were happy to work with her in setting up a marriage with Musharraf, but they could make her life difficult if she started to improvise and freelance. What they`ll overlook is the context and her tone in the many calls they eavesdrop or overlook the fact that she`s scared and preparing for the possibility of imminent death... Bhutto didn`t know about the NSA’s intercepts, but a US official let her understand that the United States could, if need be, "constrain her assets," just as she was now suggesting they do to Musharraf."

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As Bhutto met John Kerry in Washington, three weeks before going back to Pakistan, author writes: "The priority of this trip is to get Bhutto the security support she lacks. October 18 is only three weeks away. Kerry is swift off the mark: "This is a volatile situation you`re walking into, Benazir." The United States, he says, is generally hesitant to ensure the protection of anyone who is not a designated leader, a provision to prevent US forces from becoming embroiled in the internal disputes of sovereign nations. "Senator Kerry, I want Pakistan to provide me with the security I am entitled to under the laws of my country. I`d be grateful if you would talk to the Musharraf government and tell him the US expects he will fulfill those obligations." Kerry sighs. Of course, he, a senator, can`t conduct unilateral foreign policy. "Well, Benazir, I will certainly talk to the State Department about that point being made to Musharraf," he says as forcefully as credulity will allow... Her current fortune, however, are in hands of a half-a-dozen people beyond her orbit: a tight circle of policy makers in senior posts at the State Department and in the Vice President`s Office. All official contacts with Pakistan on Bhutto`s behalf must be channeled through this small group, overseen, in essence, by Cheney and Rice, a duo with a long history of internecine combat. Most of it dominated by the vice president."

If you can call it that.

She did not get the security a diplomat required. Condi Rice stood by and did not insist on more security...Bhutto was seen as a threat and she was eliminated. Cheney and Rice had somethng to do with this...