so...
Being ego driven control freaks that whore their site out to TONS of adverts is just a cover?

It could be, have to do something with those bloated black-ops budgets... $250k usd is cheap! ...wait, who owns google, and their ads?
Have been avoiding ATS for a long while, but the Hidden Hand postings had me browsing long enough to download. What bad advice he got, saying that place was above average intelligence.

"Largest trafficked debunker website" would be more accurate.