These are the people who know all of Obama's secrects. Rev. Wright, Clipso Louis, et al, will all be his down fall.
They will be dismissed as the loons they are for a while but eventually one of them will decide, "hey, we made you, we'll undo you" and are going to show up with a file folder that's going to make Watergate look like a parking ticket.
I think you are 100% correct, and for some reason the phrase “turf war” popped in my head.