RabbiSol, Braunstein is hardly as certain as you imply (The thrust of his thinking is that whoever is behind the story, it hardly matters whether it is true; the timing of the release of the story just before the all-important primaries is the thing):

"This story has everything that the Clintons could have hoped for: Oral gay sex, crack-cocaine use by the black candidate (Mr. Sinclair's choice of cocaine was of the white powder variety, as "befitting" a white man) and Internet support for lie detector tests all around. Most importantly, however, is that there is no real way to confirm or deny these charges without a proper vetting, and that would take a minimum of several weeks.

"This is a life and death gamble for whoever is behind this latest sleaze. If it is indeed the Clintons who are behind it, they better pray that their fingerprints are never found—and the best way to insure that, is for Mr. Larry Sinclair to suddenly pull a Vince Foster, once his limited usefulness has ended."