I see no evidence of a new official statement. If this claim is based on the inference from his letter to Secretary Bennet (which is what I think) it is not an affirmative statement, it is an inferred statement, and therefore not persuasive as the headline would lead us to believe.
If you have a link to a new official statement, I apologize and will read with great interest. I fear the reality is that people are simply wasting our time with this made up news.
Inferred statements are all Hawaii statute allows the registrar to make when confirming that facts presented for verification are not known to be true.
Short of being put on the witness stand where the judicial rules exempt Onaka from the protocols of Hawaii statutes and HDOH rules, this is the strongest statement that Hawaii law allows Onaka to make.
If that’s not strong enough for people to believe then their epistemology will NEVER allow them to believe when Hawaii discloses that birth claims are not legally valid.
I do agree that it would be stronger to get Onaka on the witness stand and have him say flat-out that the record is not valid. That hasn’t happened yet because nobody has been able to compel him to testify. But that doesn’t negate that this is the strongest (only, in fact) action Onaka is legally authorized to do in disclosing Obama’s situation.