Power games wouldn't surprise me.

A lot of people underestimate the degree to which the upper echelons of govt are Byzantine and Machiavellian.

The only thing you can be reasonably sure of in most cases, is that the media report does not reflect reality - or at the least, such a small piece of the total picture that the view is distorted.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)