Looks like the Sunni/Shiite conflict has rolled up some heavy DC insiders.
Or perhaps this is just more of Obama's Muslim Brotherhood covering up the Islamic terror links ?
No, the Admin wanted to find out the CIA’s sources in Yemen. It was the CIA that foiled the plot, and the AP reporters had done an article on how the CIA had followed up the leads and prevented the attack.
The problem was that this news was coming out just when Obama was boasting about the anniversary of OBL’s death (as if Bambi had anything to do with it!) and this would have undermined the narrative that Osama was just a sort of isolated one-off and that Obama had destroyed all our enemies by killing him.
So the Obama regime classified the whole thing, after the article had already been written, and then started trying to determine the reporters’ sources. I think he planned - and perhaps still plans - on prosecuting them.