Okay, maybe she's trying to... investigate something on her own, but people likely know she's connected to SpecInv as an advisor, or Spirit Foundation as an employee. If she makes herself a scapegoat, that draws attention away from her from another antagonist's side of things, since we're all focusing on her.

It's just a theory, like I said. I've got nothing to really support it, but if she wants people to think she's a lackey of Dark Mist, she wants people to think she's on Dark Mist's side.