"hopefully"
Indeed.
Just consider for a moment who's involved here. These guys are active duty (Shaffer and Philpott at least), and they are involved in intel, spec-ops, and the like. They're spook types all the way.
I don't think they would have hung their careers out there unless they knew what the big picture was. I think these guys are playing the DC establishment bigtime.
The bureaucrats are nervous. They don't know what the AD guys know. The pentagon spokesman got punked last week for opening his mouth too soon. He was discredited almost instantly. Now nobody wants to try it again.
They really seem to know what they're doing.