After a stint working in a related industry I see red flags every time I read "citizen journalist", and Higgins is no exception, his day job is closely tied to

After a stint working in a related industry I see red flags every time I read "citizen journalist", and Higgins is no exception, his day job is closely tied to US government. That's not to say he's some government shill, his investigative output is excellent, but put in context I personally can't believe there isn't some reputational blemish to be noted. People rarely achieve anything working alone, and these investigations are achieving a lot. Although I won't link to it, you may be entertained by the paranoid ramblings RT.com shares about him. Higgins is most certainly neither an altruistic white knight (western view) or amateur propagandist (Russian view), the truth as usual is a bit more complex and lies buried somewhere in between.