PapaD is in the light (not by choice), that's his insurance and RM is doing everything possible to take him out of the spot light. It appears RM doesn't have all the scoop on PD, so he needs someone to chummy up to PD. TA's job is to find out what insurance plan PD has for him to be boldly standing in the light. PapaD will feed bad intel to TA and TA will run to RM, now we wait and see what TA and RM does.
The confusion is not you, count where all the panic and confusions. After identifying the areas or groups, what do they have in common. Who/what is the cause for the confusion, a lot of things are in motion yet many are not paying attention to the camotion because they are to focused (tunnel vision) on one thing (declas). You are seeing the 5 D's in motion in DC (the 5 D's is a tactic used against an adversary).