“In early [January 24] 2009, [President Barack] Obama had ordered an intensification of the drone strikes in FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas]. Now it became apparent he had also secretly authorized the CIA to conduct large-scale recruitment of Pakistanis to establish a clandestine intelligence operation, with the help of fifty CIA officers and American contractors; neither their identities nor their tasks were shared with the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence]. In other words, the Americans had set up a specific, secret, second intelligence agency to find Osama bin Laden.”
– Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 171