>unless something is documented in a very specific gate-keeper approved way

Using strict process and critical methodology is the only want to approximate truth.

> observable reality right before our own eyes.

We don't observe reality correctly with our eyes. We (including you and me) are naked monkeys. Petty, vindictive, and biased. Palestinians and Israeli Jews are just like us but live in a cesspool of religion, anger and violent history.

> Using strict process and critical methodology is the only want to approximate truth

So now a person in position of power has deliberately obstructed this process.

Will you pretend that you have no data to act, or wake up and realise that you are dealing with a malicious entity and normal rules do not apppy?