When the author of that piece was being interview she said he alluded to it, and the he said "what if I had a witness who will say that CGM arrived sober had a drink or so and was then smashed. This was before Kim's interview in which she said that. Now it is quite possible that he felt that Kim's was going to be his witness. as funny as that seems now.
I think it's becoming clear that the DA assumed a drug based on the "instant intoxication" of the dancer. It's beginning to look like the intoxication was an act.
Nifong's use of the hypothetical construct for the suggestion that the boys drugged Mangum doesn't get him off the hook on the ethical question of the suggestion to the media.