That article makes it look simply like journalists doing normal cultivation of sources and
due diligence by runningg things by a major source as a secondary form of double checking their reporting. If I was a national security reporter I'd certainly tap contacts in the government to at least run things by them as part of my process, albeit with a a fair few grains if salt taken with anything they say.
Yeah, I went into the article expecting some damning link where the CIA has been planting questionable information into major media pieces, instead it just sorta seemed like a handful of journalists being somewhat sloppy in talking to the CIA.
