Since AJ is again a hot topic, allow me to share my observations.
If you were part of a global cabal, knowing that the burgeoning information age will inevitably bring challenges to your monopoly on people's minds, what would you do? The modus operandi of DS actors seems to be getting ahead of a fledgeling movement, take control and guide and shape the emerging narrative. Junk conspiracy theories are promoted and swapped for the real thing. People start digging in the wrong places and expectations are lowered to demoralize or incredibly heightened to disappoint in hindsight.
Ask yourself what AJ is not talking about. For instance, as far as I know, an alleged black-ops operator called Snodgrass tried to reach out to him for over a year without any response. I never heard AJ prominently address the likely MOS connection to 9/11, at least not in the way and to the extent it should have been taken into consideration. You remember alleged agents were actually arrested and, if I am not mistaken, only released due to intervention by Chertoff (secretary of homeland security under Bush Jr., co-author of the patriot act).
AJ used to hang out with the Hollywood crowd (e.g., Charlie Sheen) and you all know his temperament and personality. My guess is, I would have been pretty easy to compromise him at that time. But even if this is not the case, DS knows that it's inevitable to stop the truth movement, so why not let an overly dramatic (borderline insane/unhinged) person become the face of the truth movement instead of a serious and dedicated researcher like Bill Cooper. BC was assassinated, while AJ was allowed to grow, assuming that the followers will at some point plateau and become a clown like figure for the MSM to parade around as the crazy conspiracy theorist to demean and make fun of us. Maybe the gamble did not work out for the cabal and AJ became far too popular and able to red-pill a critical mass. Who knows whether MOS and clowns are looking back and regret not having taken him out.
The bottom line is this: I can very well imagine that he's been compromised and that he is not allowed to talk about certain things. I also believe he's become addicted to success and money and feels threatened by this independent movements like this. Given the fact that he runs an allegedly annual 50+ million dollar operation with a huge staff, the information and reports his company publishes are more than modest. It's quite frankly ridiculously superficial.
Just imagine Bill Cooper, still alive with an annual budget of 50 million dollars and crew of 100 researchers. Just imagine that!