`` The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way , '' the news agency report stated . The report says the leak probe ##d on a May 2012 story on a failed bomb plot . Attorney General Eric Holder says the leak ` ` put the American people at risk '' The bombs found had been planted by Saudi Arabia , sources told CNN .
The report says the leak probe ##d on a May 2012 story on a failed bomb plot . Attorney General Eric Holder says the leak ` ` put the American people at risk '' The bombs found had been planted by Saudi Arabia , sources told CNN .