Phil,
It seems that you are one who must be able to see the proverbial "smoking gun" before you would believe something is happening or has happened. Kinda tall order, I must say! More often than not, you will have to be quite satisfied, at least for the time being, with circumstantial evidence and proceed patiently from there until, hopefully, you get to see what you have been looking for. FWIW, develop a number of hypotheses and arrange them in order of plausibility and probability..........Sometimes, personal intuition may give you a good idea of what is, or what approximates, the 'truth'.
Without question, careful perpetrators of nefarious/dastard acts tend to so conduct themselves that it would be hard for you to find the evidence you are looking for. Also, all too often, they tend to plant false leads to lead you astray. Sorry, didn't mean to be trite! |