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FACTS can be troublesome things — especially when they appear on videotape.

Sen. Hillary Clinton's claim of superior experience, and her veracity, came under fire this week when her account of visiting U.S. troops in Bosnia in 1996 didn't match unearthed CBS News footage that's now making the rounds on YouTube.

Last week, Clinton described the trip she made as first lady as a hair-raising, sniper-dodging escapade, obviously trying to buttress her contention that she has a vast foreign-policy experience edge over her Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.

"I remember landing under sniper fire,” Clinton said. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

CBS footage told a different story. Far from hair-raising, a neatly coifed Mrs. Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are seen exiting a U.S. transport plane, smiling and waving and walking to a little group of Bosnian civilians, including children, who greeted her. Asked about the discrepancy this week, Clinton said she "misspoke.”

"Misspeak” is what happens when you flub the kicker to a joke, or when Sen. John McCain confuses the religious makeup of Iran (Shi'ite Muslim) and al-Qaida in Iraq (Sunni). The technical term for what Clinton did is "whopper.”

It's a problem almost indigenous to the Clinton campaign, which can't find enough policy differences with Obama to gain traction against him. Thus, most of her efforts are on the margins — criticizing Obama's experience and his fitness to be commander in chief while burnishing her own resume.

Clinton's credentials have taken a big hit with the surfacing of an old Clintonian bugaboo: shaky truthfulness.

In a year when voters seem keenly interested in authenticity, Clinton came up dramatically short because pictures don't lie.