From there, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung explain why news of the base is just now emerging:
The Washington Post had refrained from disclosing the location at the request of the administration, which cited concern that exposing the facility would undermine operations against an al-Qaeda affiliate regarded as the network’s most potent threat to the United States, as well as potentially damage counterterrorism collaboration with Saudi Arabia.
News orgs had ‘informal arrangement’ not to mention Saudi drone base
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