Holder recused himself from DOJ decision to seize AP records

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9. K&RRR thanks babylonsistah. "Why The Department Of Justice Is Going After The Associated Press’

Records"

ThinkProgress: ….. Last year, the Associated Press reported that an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula plot had been foiled, thanks to a timely intervention on the part of the United States…. Why that drew the attention of the Justice Department, however, is that the CIA was the one who foiled the plot, which the AP report made clear….

…. by reporting the CIA’s involvement in foiling the plot, they put AQAP on notice that the CIA had a window into their activities. The AP’s reporting also led to other stories involving an operative in place within AQAP, and details of the operations he was involved in. That operative, it was feared, would be exposed and targeted by AQAP as retribution for siding with the United States…..

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/13/2005021/doj-yemen-aqap/