Yes... CNN jumped on the story. So did the Hillary supporting Washington Post in an article today.
That is not the point. The point is the story is out there. It is being discussed.
The Washington Post even attacked "Insight" for single sourcing a story. An unusual attack considering the bulk of stories they have printed over the last six years attacking the Bush administration and Republicans in general were anonymously single sourced.
Regarding CNN in Jakarta, why didn't they just ask Obama? He has already admitted in one of his books that he spent two years in an Islamic school in Indonesia.
The ultimate strategy still works. Leak something to an obscure media outlet, then let the rest of the mainstream media start talking about it, even if it is an attack on the other media outlet. Somewhere along the line the truth will eventually come out. Leaving the original leaker with "plausible deniability".
The "politics of personal destruction" is in play.
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On a side note... when Hillary was in the White House with her husband, all of the mainstream media reporters in Washington knew about the Lewinsky affair. They kept it hidden until a then obscure media outlet known as the "Drudge Report" let the cat out of the bag.
How many media outlets and Hillary herself denied all of it in the beginning? Remember... it was all lies and a "vast right wing conspiracy" until those calling everyone else liars were proven themselves to be liars. Including Hillary.