boyd is from alabama and imo got his job from sessions
True. He was Sessions' Communication Director when Sessions was in the US Senate.
Boyd also objected to removing redactions from the Nunes memo that revealed FBI use of Steele dossier to get FISA warrant, and claimed "nothing hinky in the FISA process."
Lots of possible motivations for that, including distraction and disinformation. Any radical departure from the typical "institutional protection reflex" would put a target on Boyd's back. The minions know sabotage well.