] The general and his government have been lying for years
] about the illegal traffic. Now that their cover has been
] blown by evidence supplied to the United Nations by Libya
] and Iran, they are attempting to pin all the blame on a
] single scientist while stonewalling any international
] investigation. On Wednesday Abdul Qadeer Khan, the chief
] designer of Pakistan's atomic weapons, confessed on
] television to selling his work through an international
] black market and claimed he acted alone -- contradicting
] his previous implication of Mr. Musharraf and other top
] generals.

] What's hard to believe is the Bush
] administration's reaction to it. Rather than moving to
] impose sanctions on Pakistan -- action that might be
] expected for a government that has been caught providing
] the technology for nuclear weapons to such countries as
] Iran, Libya and North Korea -- it has swallowed his
] coverup and even congratulated him on it. "We value the
] commitments Mr. Musharraf has made to prevent the
] expertise in Pakistan from reaching other places," State
] Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday. "We
] think that Pakistan is taking serious efforts to end the
] activities of a dangerous network." As for the pardon of
] Mr. Khan -- who by Pakistan's account is probably the
] worst criminal in the history of nuclear weapons
] proliferation -- "I don't think it's a matter for the
] United States to sit in judgment on," Mr. Boucher said.

Anyone still want to argue that Iraq was/is our biggest threat?

Giving Pakistan a Pass (washingtonpost.com)