There's another interpretation that comes to mind. The CIA always projected themselves as the ghost in the machine because it sparks paranoia in their targets. Over the past seven years, military intelligence has often employed the deep state's own tactics against them. This is not an exception. Military psyops have turned the tables and they are the ghost in the machine now. The intel community is being driven to paranoia. "Drive your enemy to distemper." "Hunters become the hunted." etc.