Apparently in this case he's a Saudi agent. So it seems he's primarily a whoever-pays-him-the-most agent. And he's a very very worthy investment: for 110M$ of fees, Saudi got a war worth tens of billions of $ paid by USA's tax payers.

Well, there a side-effect they probably didn't anticipate, but you know Saudi rulers: they funded Bin Ladin, ISIS, their former king was convinced Earth was flat, their scholars still don't believe it rotates, they thought vanishing a journalist in their embassy would not be noticed. You can't expect a real strategy or deep thoughts…