How are you ever going to meet “high standards of evidence” when you are not allowed unfettered access to the information?
Lack of Transparency by Power is seemingly always accompanied by a "Conspiracy Theory" double tap Keep Out sign. Double Tap and Double Bind.
If citizen investigators, investigative journalists, and licensed private investigators want to speak truth to power in an effective way, they must be able and willing to meet high standards of evidence. Otherwise, they will be easily dismissed as crackpots.
I call this concern about “being dismissed” (by whom?)…Manchurian Candidate.
As time goes by and T…