[Dawn] US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
vowed Sunday not to let the United States be "gouged" by Pakistain on the price it charges for overland deliveries of American military supplies to Afghanistan.
Pakistain closed the land route to US supplies in November as punishment for a botched US air strike that mistakenly killed 24 Pak soldiers, but have been in negotiations to reopen the border crossing.
US defense officials have said the Paks are demanding several thousand dollars for every truck crossing its border with the supplies, up from $250 per truck before the closure.
"We're not about to get gouged in the price. We want a fair price," Panetta said on ABC's "This Week."Without the Pak supply lines, the United States has had to rely on a much longer, more expensive northern route to resupply its forces in Afghanistan.