The AP article in question:
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot
seattle times ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2880974/posts Posted on Monday, May 07, 2012 4:26:58 PM by Perdogg
[Not CIA op but UK & Saudia Arabia, and someone leaked it to make WH look good right after UK informed US]
And the folks overseas who actually conceived and executed the risky work are none too happy about their loose-lipped American cousins trying to bolster someone's domestic political standing by leaking the story prematurely, destroying the agent's cover and future usefulness. And possibly betraying that agent's contacts within Yemen.
It's not an admin shot at AP.
Read my links about the horn-tootin' leaks back then concerning Yemen and see why the behavior of the admin then relates to the Obama admin's horn-tooting in the OBL raid and the utter lack of it in Benghazi.