They went after release because of the sensational title.
The sensational title was published on the front page of the Washington Post, on Sunday, May 19, 2002. The title of the PDB was in the first sentence of that article. It was sensational then. Now it's old news. Let's moooove on.
The mainstream media is not above recycling old sensational material. It's new again because of the 9/11 hearings, so they act as though it's new info.