Bidan's group wants total control of information. That's what they tried to do in Afghanistan, but they miscalculated.
Plan, I think, was to get him in and run a gaslight campaign to make people think life is so much better with Bidan in charge,
That would be the rallying cry if the cheating was uncovered, "It don't matter because we're better off, cheating or not Won't be worth it to change anything, just more unrest."
Wheels are coming off the wagon because Bidan is and was a fuck up. Always. Doesn't have a calming optical presence, either. Same as Harris. Just pisses people off.
There's bomb throwers inside the Bidan group wire, They're blowing holes in the narrative the MSM has to told to paint.
I'd like to think this was planned, but I don't think the dead marines and the stranded would be in the plan, unless Bidan group is just too panicked to be careful. If they're too panicked, then the good guys have to pull the plug sooner than they wanted. They're going to have to hit them with the entire arsenal all at once. Pretty close now to reasonable peeps wanting his ass gone now, anyway. Harris to follow. Not a NBC, and that will be the lever.