Just don't look in the Republicans' corners! (Iran Contra, CIA cocaine, October Surprise, Watergate, McCarthy, Nixon, Rumsfeld (he and Dick C. convinced Nixon to extend the Cold War because "the Russians must have some secret magic radar", but it turned out to be the Walker family selling secret codes).
They wanted everyone to believe Republicans were looking for conspiracies instead of sourcing them. It's been their M.O. since the Dulles days.