Ye olde switcheroo: hiding the co-conspirators?

From Giselle at life-after-rc:

Perusing many emails from around the world, it has become evident that there's a lot of shuffling going on. Not playing cards, under sleepy oak trees where children while away their summer vacations, but evidence that the S.S. Legion is rearranging its deck chairs, so that (one might conclude) certain parties will be unavailable to the Visitors. From schools to various apostolates, superiors and directors who have been in a given place for five, ten, even fifteen years or more are suddenly needed elsewhere. Certainly, summer is the time for new assignments, but it's curious how many "fixtures" are already packing up and moving out of harm's way. One might connect the dots and suggest a trend, but surely the AV would recognise such an obvious tactic...