Bomb Plot Briefing May Undercut DOJ's Case For AP Records Seizure - MSNBC

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6. The original AP story was sparce on details re the double-agent. Those were provided later by WaPo &

NYT. The original AP story is linked.

The fact that Brennan soon confirmed the operation was under CIA "control" and that there never was any real danger to the US does go to confirm that AP had not blown an ongoing operation, and that no lives were endangered by printing the story. Instead, the May 7 AP report was about events that occurred in Sept. when the double-agent was extracted, and that operation was long over by the time it was leaked. AP didn't tell AQAP anything they didn't already know.

The WH and DOJ have overreacted and overreached on this display of anti-leaker power against a major media organization. Like the IRS probe of c(4) organizations with TP in their names, this has been a mistake, and the Administration should now back away carefully.