AP was leaked a story about a similar airplane shoe bomber that had been thwarted. The plan was to blow up a plane on the anniversary of OSB's death but our intel stopped it.
When AP told the purple lipped prince's admin the were running the story, and only brought it to them to insure they were not stepping on any confidential toes, zero's admin got pissed and wanted to find out who leaked it to them.
National security my ass...this was personal for ole' VJ...bank on it.