Did the Department of Justice seize months of phone records from the Associated Press because the news organization ran a story that contradicted a key White House claim in the war on terror?
AP has speculated that the Justice Department investigation was launched because of a story it ran on May 7, 2012, reporting that the CIA thwarted an attempt by an al-Qaida affiliate to blow up a U.S. airliner on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
However, that story directly contradicted a White House claim that it had “no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida, are plotting attacks in the U.S. to coincide with the (May 2) anniversary of bin Laden’s death.”
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