US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not given a clean chit to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) over Osama bin Laden’s presence in the country, her spokesman said on Saturday. “I don’t think she (Clinton) gave them (ISI) a free chit,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at his daily news conference when asked if Clinton had given a clean chit to ISI with regard to its links to terrorists. “We acknowledge that there are difficulties in the relationship, but the bottom line is that this is a relationship that’s in our interest and in Pakistan’s interest, and so we need to work through these challenges moving forward,” he said. He said the secretary of state had been appreciative of Pakistan’s move to give the US access to the compound of Osama bin Laden. “The secretary was clear to say that we’re at a pivotal moment in the relationship, certainly with the death of Osama bin Laden, but there’s other important aspects of the relationship that are in motion. We’ve been applying next door in Afghanistan; we’ve been applying steady pressure on the Taliban. We want to see also, concurrent with that, the Afghan-led reconciliation process move forward,” he said.