Clinton's assertion that the anti-terrorism commitment is government-wide in Islamabad came in response to a question about Pakistan's intelligence service, which has long been accused ties with Islamic extremists.
VOA: standard.2009.07.20
Let's be clear that while the CIA director apparently insists he was offering a generic statement on intelligence craft, he was not asked a generic question.
In answer to aquestion, he said that if intelligence experts did not feel that the information came from suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden or the al Qaeda network, the government would not have "ramped up" on it.