The AP's being investigated by a grand jury for who they coordinated with in Congress over the leak.

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36. OP claims "letter" is actually a Grand Jury Subpoena in a nat'l security case. Says AP can't

publish it, That's a claim made by the OP. I'm skeptical that is not correct as it violates Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. (This is one edit after I mistook the OP's claim to be fact - my bad?)

A lot of us are jumping to conclusions here on the basis of fragmentary evidence, although I would not be surprised if it turns out it was an Intel Committee staffer who leaked to AP, which put a spin on this in its original May 7 that the Obama WH had made misleading statements about no known AQ threat to coincide with the anniversary of Bin Laden's death.

The AP article didn't reveal much - that came a day or two later with a series of reports from the WaPo and the NYT.

The operation was over and the double-agent already long extracted form Yemen by the time the AP published this. There were no lives at risk. The bit about relatives in Yemen being endangered smells like BS and an afterthought - the agent was Saudi sent in from abroad.