So true, and what is so badly needed is something like a
Truth and Reconciliation effort to help us recover from this
terrible public disease.

Open Source Intelligence is a term that describes what is easily obtained through non-secret, unclassified, reputable and reliable sources. It actually surpasses what well funded, secret, devious, numbskull organizations seem to know.

Look into James Corbett and The Corbett Report on U-Tube for hours and hours of high quality expositions of what every human being who cares should know.