Posted on 07/21/2008 8:39:38 PM PDT by Red Steel
Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but yesterday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular Atlas Shrugs blog. (photos and close-ups, with detailed report)
The purported birth certificate was published by the left wing Daily Kos blog on June 12 in response to unconfirmed reports that Obama was not in fact born in the United States (Canada and Kenya were suggested as the possible locations of his actual birth). Since he would in that case not be a natural born US citizen (his mother was not present in the US sufficiently long as an adult to pass American citizenship on to him automatically), he would not be eligible to be president. Israel Insider has followed the story and uncovered evidence, most recently, of admitted forgery among Daily Kos bloggers, tolerance of electronic forgeries on the blog site, as well as efforts by a blog administrator to conceal the admission of forgery.
The latest examinaton of the purported documents is by far the most detailed and technically sophisticated to date.
Atlas Shrugs publisher Pamela Geller reports that the expert analyst, who goes by the screen name "Techdude", is "an active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, International Information Systems Forensics Association -- the list goes on. He also a board certified as a forensic computer examiner, a certificated legal investigator, and a licensed private investigator. He has been performing computer-based forensic investigations since 1993 (although back then it did not even have a formal name yet) and he has performed countless investigations since then."
The pseudonym was apparently inadequate to prevent Techdude's identity from being exposed. He reports that last week one or more persons "decided to track me down and vandalize my car and hang a dead mutilated rabbit from my front door in a lame attempt to intimidate me from proceeding with releasing any details of my analysis. They did succeed in delaying the report by a few days but instead of deterring him they really angered him. To their credit, he says, the extra days enabled him to locate the most damning piece of evidence, the remnants of the previous security border."
Techdude's detailed report, which runs more than 3000 words and 20 pages with extensive magnified illustrations and comparisons, reaches the following conclusion about the documented that was first published on the Daily Kos extreme left-wing blog and subsequently publicly endorsed by the Obama campaign, both in statements by official spokesmen, and featured on its "Fight the Smears" website. Here are some of conclusions:
"The (Daily) KOS image security border pattern does not match any known specimen from any known year. It does not match the pre-2006 nor does it match the post-2006 certificate patterns. The placement of the text in all of the pre-2006 and post-2006 certificates are almost identical pixel location matches while the image's text placement does not match any known specimen from any known year. The shape and kerning of the fonts used in the 2006 through 2008 certificates are identical while the shape and kerning of the fonts used in the image does not match any known specimen. The KOS image shows clear signs of tampering such as the mismatch in RGB and error levels, visible indications of the previous location of the erased security border, easily detectable patterns of repeating flaws around the new security border, EXIF data that says the image was last saved with Photoshop CS3 for Macintosh, and finally a technician from Hawaii who confirms it just looks wrong."
The evidence, he says, allows for two possible scenarios by which the document was fabricated:
"There are two obvious scenarios used to create the image that can be ascertained from evidence. Either a real COLB was scanned into Photoshop and digitally edited or a real COLB was first scanned to obtain the graphic layout then blanked by soaking the document in solvent to remove the toner. After rescanning the blank page to a separate image the graphics from the previously obtained scan could then be easily applied to the blank scan after some editing and rebuilding. It would also explain why date stamp bleeds through the paper and the various bits of toner located around the image as well as the remnants of the previous location of a security border."
After more than a month of controversy and demands that the Obama campaign produce a paper birth certificate for analysis, this damning new evidence raises the stakes for the democratic party and its front-runner.
Will Obama and his people continue to stonewall in the facing of the mounting evidence of forgery, and provide paper proof of an authentic, original birth certificate or even a genuine secondary Certificate of Live Birth? And will the mass media and mainstream pundits, which so far have hesitated to touch the hot potato, finally address the loaded issue of his possible unfitness to meet the basic Constitutional requirement for a President?
Perhaps the outspoken Israeli press corps will be able to do what their American counterparts have failed to do so far. Obama's visit this week to Israel will be an opportunity to begin asking the tough questions, however unpolitically correct, about his apparently forged birth certificate and what that means for his citizenship status and Constitutional fitness to be the next leader of the free world.
Someone's got to ask these, our MSM sure won't.
“Will Obama and his people continue to stonewall in the facing of the mounting evidence of forgery,”
The Democrat Party and MSM learned from the Swifties- never let the new media break into the old.
This will be completely ignored by MSM no matter what.
His friggin resume’ is forged. This guy will usher in the demise of this nation....mark it down.
Obama insulates himself very well from foreign reporters. There’s probably little chance for an intrepid Israeli news hound to get to him.
If this is true, why didn’t the Hildebeast use this info (not a natural born citizen) to knock him out of the running?
IMO this has become a put-up or shutup story.
Produce the goods, or don’t even bother to write it.
... let alone post it (for the 25th time in 2 months).
The Drive-by Media are more likely to print the patently silly “McCain was born a Panamanian, and isn’t eligible to be President” story, than to print anything factual about Obama’s provenance and upbringing. Whether the certificate in question is a forgery or not, the Media will argue that he has a right to protect his private information, and that Hussein is a citizen until proven otherwise (which they will make absolutely no attempt to do). The only way this story could get any “legs” is if the McCain Campaign or the RNC went to court on the matter, in which case (assuming they are wrong) Obama would become the ultimate “victim” of Republican “racism” and xenophobia. And even if Obama were shown to be an ineligible non-native citizen, Hillary will be waiting in the wings...
Ultimately, who’s responsibility is it to confirm that a candidate for President does, in fact, meet the constitutional requirement for being a “natural born citizen”?
The beast is not perfect at getting the dirt as some think.
But all of us freepers in individual states could file lawsuits to remove him from the ballot because he’s ineligible.
In the infamous words of Al Gore, there is “no controlling authority”.
Can someone let me know if the FBI can get involved? I would think this is up their alley. If not, what law enforcement agency has control over this type of investigation? And what about the agency where he filed his papers to run???
That is exactly what this is. Absolute proof of forgery. Its not Techdude’s or our fault if nobody takes any notice. I’m delighted by any story about it because it means it will spread that much further and perhaps create enough pressure that in the end it can’t be ignored.
So what? Prove it or drop it, the guy was born somehow, somewhere. This is a non-issue.
Patience. It has to be done very carefully to avoid the wrath of his disciples.
Do you say this because you think Obama doesn't know that this is a forgery or because you don't think it matters that he does know?
Do you think he is totally unaware of the question regarding his citizenship? It was posted to address that very question.
Stupid Constitution. Those old dead white guys never had a grasp of the issues like some folks around here.
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