The military, those in it who work on simulators and scenario generators use the expression "the ground truth" to refer to the material facts of a series of events that one or another side might see only bits and pieces of.

The documents and assertions about their invalid nature are just screen, scenarios, smoke and mirrors. The real question is what actually happened, the ground truth -- where was he, when, and did he do what he said he would?

If you don't want to answer that question, keep on shifting the focus to he-said, she-said, neener neener and PR smokery dopery.

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