You just know how frustrating this all must be for COB.
These P.I.s who just fold like cheap cameras and whose silence Miscavige thought he had bought who don't stay bought.
It's so hard for an ecclesiastical leader nowadays to find good help,
ever since Tony Pellicano took an extended vacation.
The reason the two PIs spilled so much damaging detail is a happy convergence of three things:
#1 They read up on their employer, thoroughly, it sounds like. The Internet and recently published books make it easier to do that.
#2 They like hauling around guns and other paraphernalia, and so when brought up on charges for a few things that were not legal, they felt that redirecting the attention to their eccentric employer would take the heat off them -- especially the suspected heart attack incident.
#3 The nosy neighbor who felt uncomfortable with the PIs creeping around in the neighborhood which led to the police investigation.
Apparently, Miscavige, heading off the deep end more than ever, felt that just throwing a hefty sum of money on PIs, as well as having other PIs monitor the PIs, would ensure that things would always go smoothly and be done professionally, with discretion. The one PI had been working for him for 9 years and nothing had gone wrong before. Nothing went wrong with the two who were following the Broekers, until he shafted them out of their salaries.
Another thing which has changed, although it didn't play much of a part in this case, is that people, with their cell phones and cameras, and all the new devices that are available, are more in tune to hidden cameras. Before, if you saw a person snooping around a house, if they weren't snooping when the police arrived, you were out of luck, but now you can take video of the person snooping, or take photos of the hidden cameras that are mounted to spy on you.
In this situation with DM's father, the PIs maybe didn't "stay bought" because after nine years, the guy had made enough money that he could probably retire. He was one of those rare people where enough was enough. If he had saved 3 million, he didn't want 5 million. It's kind of the opposite of Sea Org members, where many are left impoverished and powerless.
I don't know anything about the hiring of PIs, but I'm surprised the cult didn't furnish them with basic guidelines: "Don't say anything about us if you're caught. If you're a hunter or into sports shooting, don't bring any weapons on the job, not even in your car."
I bet DM practically combusted spontaneously when he heard about what happened. Well, he pulled it in.