I'm sure New Delhi is the best place to go to get news on DC.
I lived overseas for 16+ years.
I found overseas news sources often more revealing than the heavily controlled USA sources, even though, typically, the local-National news sources overseas were even more controlled.
However, they'd typically still report some item from somewhere that turned out to have been quite valid--yet the Stateside folks had heard none of it.
I'm not sure what all goes into that. But I observed it more than a few times.
Certainly the upper ranks are rife with intrigue and differing feelings and perspectives--particularly at the lower levels of the upper ranks but somewhat even at the upper levels. And, they have staff that have varying degrees of loyalties. Leaks occur.
And, as the Chinese idiom goes . . .
The onlooker sees the game best..