If I was deep state/glowies, I'd do as much covert internal sabotage of these groups as possible. I'm not saying this is whats happening, but judging from how dirty they play, and the utilization of the most effective actions, this wouldn't surprise me a bit. The fact his actions are exuding the desired effect from the DS (not much information released, demoralization as you also bring up) is "interesting" to put it simply....