Finding this guy and charging/exposing is part of the deflection of the govt under President and the US State Dept being derelict in its duty to protect sovereign territory against a terrorist attack. It's an extension of the useful narrative that right wing nuts, because of their hatred and intolerance of things different from themselves put us all at risk.
We are supposed to forget that the "film" has been out for six months, but that the anniversary of the 9-11 attack could be expected to draw some action over there, that the second man in al Quaida was recently killed in a drone attack and 24-hours before Al Zawahiri called for revenge on the embassy, that president Obama is the man with the drone kill list, that the president claims "HE" killed Osama (proclaimed at the dem convention as one his greatest accomplishments), that the crowd of radical Islamists at the Cairo embassy chanted "We are all Osama, Obama" as they breached the wall
These are the connections the media should be focusing on and challenging the administration to explain as outcomes of the administration's foreign policy. As Rumsfeld so famously said "weakness is a provocation."
This whole affair shows how little influence and respect we now have in the region, and the movie excuse is propaganda. Their going after the moviemaker is to show the media where, if they are smart, to focus their narrative.