So, I was watching a bit of Viva Frei last night, and Robert Barnes basically came to that conclusion, and this comes from his argument.

If I can reduce his argument down a bit to an easily readable form, it appears to Barnes that Powell may have been the target/victim of a disinformation campaign directed against her and her staff. Instead of focusing her limited time and resources on smaller tangible issues that would get her successes in court, she's fallen down a rabbit hole of looking into who has financial relationships with whom, claiming that the Governor is actually anti-Trump due to his connections, claiming that California may have been won by Trump, claiming that Dominion swung not thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, but many millions of votes. Fundamentally, a bunch of stuff that turns into a gish gallop that Barnes thinks doesn't work in court generally, and is likely to damage the case. It's also why she seems to have been pulled back a bit by the Trump team.

Barnes argues that what the establishment tends to do, particularly the intel agencies, is bombard people with disinformation campaigns to distract them from the primary direction of investigation. This is typically because they can't actually stop the leaking of information, or because the information has already been lost and they want to re-direct investigations away from successful strategies. He cites disinformation campaigns used in relationship to Snowden.

I tend to agree with his assessment in this, from two perspectives. One: how normies react badly to lesser known information with conspiracy thinking, and two: how disinformation campaigns were used against "UFOlogists".

One: most normies and boomers are unaware of the level of corruption and black-ops level activities that the government engages in around the world. They are not aware of cyber-attack operations. They are not aware of assassinations. They are not aware that we negotiate with terrorists. They are not aware that we absolutely rig elections. They don't even really know that Radio Free Europe is literally an American propaganda outlet funded through congress. When they start to see some of this, without really understanding how it really works, they tend to resort to conspiracy-level thinking. They think that the government, because it has these programs, must have near unlimited power and ability, brainwashing millions. As Powell herself said, "It's like drinking from a fire-hose". They don't remember that most of the MK-Ultra experiments didn't work. That the military rejected the Gay Bomb project multiple times because it was ridiculous. That when the CIA used cat-bombs, they got run over by cars. That despite desperate efforts for over a decade, the intelligence agencies repeatedly failed to assassinate Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Qaddafi. Yes, they do weird shit, not it has a failure rate, and no not everything is true. Yes, we landed on the moon. Yes, the 9/11 highjackers did crash planes into the twin towers. Yes, JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Yes, there were WMD's in Iraq... we sold it to them. You don't need a grand conspiracy, when you can just exploit an opportunity. The Gulf Of Tonkin incident didn't need fake Vietnamese boats and soldiers, just an unclear radar image and an excuse. While I'm sure that Powell was being spoon-fed some valid information, I think she was being spoon-fed information that someone knew would distract her from the important legal arguments. I think the "Kraken" is a ruse.

Two: One of our military intelligence agencies used a similar disinformation strategy to such an absurd degree that their target within the UFO-research community committed suicide. I've long maintained that I believe the UFO investigative community is being actively monitored by military intelligence, because a bunch of civilians with excellent cameras keep sneaking up to the outskirts of secret US military research bases (and in one incident a bio/chem-weapon factory) and taking pictures of their shit. They probably don't like that, and want to make sure that nothing important gets out. I can't remember the man's name, but basically, he had been researching UFO's for years and he got pictures of something very interesting that he though was a UFO. According to statements he made to family, friends, and other hobbyists, someone from the military actually contacted him about the picture. They basically sold him on a giant story: aliens were real, but this wasn't an alien spacecraft. It was actually a small remote controlled spy plane that the military had developed using alien technology. According to the researcher, Men-In-Black style military personnel actually met with him, and then flew him out by helicopter to an actual crash site, where there was a "real" alien probe crash. They basically 'recruited' him to report on all the other crashes and sightings that he found so they could let him know whether it was their secret military aircraft, or possible alien activity that could be a sign of something, maybe the aliens were going to invade or reveal themselves!

If you know anything about aliens, science, physics, or intel agencies, you can probably guess that the dude was basically be recruited by a clever sales pitch to give information to the intel agencies, so that they would be aware of what pictures were being shared of what equipment. They created an informant. Now, to make a long story short, the disinfo campaign started to go completely off the rails. The dude spiraled very badly hurling himself into investigating alien phenomenon and sightings. He seemed to actually develop a genuine mental illness (which can absolutely be related to really rabid paranoid conspiracy thinking). He said he was getting calls from strange people in the middle of the night. IIRC, he did start talking about bizarre shit like voices in his head, alien shape shifters, and all sorts of extravagant stuff. Some people in the UFO community think that the Disinfo Campaign killed him. I suspect that the DIA probably recruited someone who already had a mental illness, and then didn't know what to do once he started showing signs that he was genuinely sick, so they kicked him to the curb and let him spiral so they didn't get in trouble.

I feel like something similar might have happened to Sidney Powell. Someone didn't like the work they were doing, so instead of trying to censor everything, they flooded her with a bit of good, but relatively unprovable information, that starts to involve a patently useless narrative like a scheme to change votes in Germany and that Trump won in California. I think it's absolutely clear we are in the middle of an information war, and Trump's enemy's in the establishment are open to harassing lawyers and intimidating witnesses. I don't think it would be crazy to think that someone clever tried spoon feeding Trump attorneys disinformation to throw them off, considering how time sensitive this the latter stages of this campaign are. It doesn't even have to be the intel agencies, it could easily be Dominion themselves, or just mid level political activists.