knowingly spewing lies is not ‘Speaking Truth To Power’.
It is easy to accuse others of “knowingly speaking lies” anytime someone speaks out against the approved narrative.
Here is one anecdote from that time period.
I live in CT and immediately after Sandy Hook there were several emergency medical technicians/paramedics from Fairfield County that called in to local talk shows.
Their story was never reported in the mass media.
They said that they heard about the shootings on the radio and immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed to their local hospital’s helipad to volunteer to help save any wounded children at the school.
These hospitals would be about a ten minute helicopter ride to the school, so they were sure they would be able to save lives.
When they arrived at the helipad their supervisor asked:
“What are you doing here? I didn’t call you in to work.”
They were then told to go home.
(Then we find out that there were no wounded children at Sandy Hook. I leave it as an exercise to look at other major school shootings—you will see that in every major case there were many more wounded than killed.)
That proves nothing—but raises “reasonable doubt” about the official narrative.