How much time and money has been wasted following up on those lies trying validate them or invalidate them?
Billions? What with trips abroad and investigations and meetings and accusations with no proof ever being presented?
Billions? Trillions?
Perhaps it's best we don't know. Perhaps that information would be just too much to absorb without collapsing.
All that money wasted on goose chases and red herrings could better have been used elsewhere.