Air strikes on Pakistan - telegraphed

Air strikes on Pakistan reports the Washington Post today.

On Thursday posting on Obama's likely new blackberry:

Well he doesn't fuck around, does he. I wonder what Michelle was up to?

watchya doin?
- curtains! said i wouldn't. watchya doin?
work stuff
- like?
fired some missiles
- verbal?
real ones - into pakistan - taliban/al qaeda
- shit!
yeah - i was told "this is happening" i didn't have to sign anything
- just verbal?
yeah, but at the end of the briefing I looked right at the senior guy, the general, and said "let's take them out." That was pretty cool.
- cool.
very cool. How are the kids?
...

Washington Post continues:

It remained unclear yesterday whether Obama personally authorized the strike or was involved in its final planning, but military officials have previously said the White House is routinely briefed about such attacks in advance.

At his daily White House briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the strikes, saying, "I'm not going to get into these matters." Obama convened his first National Security Council meeting on Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday afternoon, after the strike.

The Pakistani government, which has loudly protested some earlier strikes, was quiet yesterday. In September, U.S. and Pakistani officials reached a tacit agreement to allow such attacks to continue without Pakistani involvement, according to senior officials in both countries.

But some Pakistanis have said they expect a possibly bumpy diplomatic stretch ahead.

The Defense Secretary is still the same Bush appointee that he has kept on I should note.