For fourteen years a single composite photograph has been waved away by an industry that has never once produced the invoice. Reality Daily spent fourteen months looking for it. This is what the record shows — and what the record does not show, which is arguably worse.
By Dale R. Kettering, Senior Investigative Correspondent · Edited by Marguerite Vandersloot · 41 min read
Exhibit A — The composite as originally circulated in 2011, annotations intact. Four appearances against flags. One against drapery. Reality Daily has retained the full provenance chain of this file, including its original compression signature, and will make it available to any credentialed party who asks in writing. To date, none has.
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