Ballawi's reports were "restricted handling," aka.seen in Washington only by the CIA director & his top lieutenants!

NPR/ here

"... The former intelligence official, who has been briefed on the attack, tells NPR that the informant had previously revealed enough information about al-Qaida operatives to enable the CIA to kill them with missile strikes from unmanned aircraft ...

"He was feeding us low-level operatives and we were whacking them," the source said. He agreed to discuss the attack on the condition of anonymity.

The suicide bomber, identified as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had met previously with CIA agents, according to the former intelligence official, but never inside the CIA base, known as Forward Operating Base Chapman, outside Khost...."