It's just her typical way of deflecting bad attention off herself. See, their whole strategy for the trial was HER idea, and it didn't work. So now she's trying to say that she had no part in it, that it was someone else' idea and she had no part in it. Whenever it's something not good for her or about her, she lays in on others. SHe did this numerious times during cross, when Juan would ask her why she's saying these lies if it doesn't benefit her (after she would say she wasn't doing it to benefit her case). And then she would say, "oh I'm only answering the quesitons that were posed to me by my attorneys." As if she had no idea what was going on, she just up and one day took the stand and Nurmi started asking her a bunch of questions. If you see any documents before the trial began, everyone sees she was and is in total control of her defense.
You're right that she's the client and she has the say-so. All the TH defense attorneys also have said that. She's just lying. Basically any idea that is good or has worked she attributes to herself, and all others she blames on others.