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Posted on 05/17/2013 8:50:26 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The whole point of Holder’s presser on Tuesday, I thought, was to stress that the DOJ had to take extraordinary action in subpoenaing the AP’s phone records because the leak itself was so extraordinary. The clear impression was that the AP’s story had put the public in danger by compromising operations in Yemen, therefore the DOJ had to go the extra mile in finding out which national-security official had blabbed. Direct quote from Holder:
“I’ve been a prosecutor since 1976, and I have to say that this is among, if not the most serious – it’s in the top two or three – most serious leaks that I’ve ever seen,” Holder added. “It put the American people at risk. And that is not hyperbole.”
Fast-forward to today. Was the public ever actually at risk? Why, no, says WaPo. In fact, the AP held the story for days so as not to jeopardize U.S. counterterror ops, and only went ahead and published after the CIA assured them that there was no longer a risk. Nothing was compromised. Maybe Holder simply meant that the leak could have put the public at risk had the AP published right away, but WaPo seems to have another theory about why the White House was so angry afterward:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
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WaPo: CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly
And the AP - thinking they were part of the team - went along with it. Did the AP ‘help’ with trashing the Tea Party too?
Worse than what we thought!
Wow! I hope this gets some attention.... and from the Washington Post no less....
“Worse than what we thought!”
Not me, I think the very worst of our fraudulent president.
I learned that from Democrats.
WAPO has been on team CIA since Operation Mockingbird.
In a fight between CIA and Obama..whose side would they come down on?
And AP complied — until the night before the White House was going to go public, at which point, AP ran with the story.
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