The United States should make more of an effort to obtain the release of an imprisoned Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA get Osama bin Laden, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, told Newsmax Wednesday.

Dr. Shakil Afridi was head of health services in Pakistan’s Khyber district. He oversaw a vaccine program that is believed to have helped U.S. intelligence services confirm bin Laden was living at the Abbottabad compound where he was eventually killed.

Pakistani authorities considered Afridi a traitor for his role in helping the U.S. They arrested him in May of 2011 and sentenced him to 33 years in prison without a trial.

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