AP Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, why DOJ went after AP records

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35. The basic premise - that this guy could somehow walk back into the cell - is so utterly implausible

as to be laughable. It's back-fill and CYA that someone in the CIA or DOJ cooked up long after the fact that this operation was over at the moment the agent was extracted in September. He was not going back in -- particularly after Quso was droned -- so when the article was published May 7, 2012, the operation was stone cold.

I've seen how backfill is created. Normally, it's at a conference table in DC where some bright junior lights start picking over the details of an operation so it fills the needs of an after-action report or some other proceeding, such as an indictment or an application for Section 13. Nobody who knows anything is buying into this backfill cover-story.