Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?

Well, could be because of this:

From the article --

On December 17, the Yemeni government announced that it had conducted a series of strikes against an Al Qaeda training camp in the village of al Majala in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, killing a number of Al Qaeda militants. As the story spread across the world, Shaye traveled to al Majala. What he discovered were the remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military’s arsenal. He photographed the missile parts, some of them bearing the label “Made in the USA,” and distributed the photos to international media outlets. He revealed that among the victims of the strike were women, children and the elderly. To be exact, fourteen women and twenty-one children were killed. Whether anyone actually active in Al Qaeda was killed remains hotly contested. After conducting his own investigation, Shaye determined that it was a US strike. The Pentagon would not comment on the strike and the Yemeni government repeatedly denied US involvement.​

But of course, that's just a guess. On the flip side, we have only Shaye's friend's statements of what the investigation by the reporter turned up, we have no photos as are alleged to have been taken, and we have no corroborating evidence. So we are left to speculate. It is doubtful the Pentagon wasted a Cruise missile on a bogus training camp, though it is entirely possible such a camp housed "innocent civilians," the quote marks being meant to indicate they likely were not innocent, nor entirely civilians.