You make several very good points.
For me, the issue continues to be interesting just for the way the propaganda mind games have been successfully played. It is one for the PR books.
Whatever the truth of the matter, it is evident that O told so many lies over the years that the only way he could avoid a big problem was to declare his entire history off-limits. And he did, and he got away with it. No one could get at his paper trail, and no one was able to even discuss it in polite company without being drummed out of the public square. No one, not the press, not the judiciary, and certainly not the blessed Republicans, could be roused to take an interest in determining who this guy was and if anything about his biography was even real.
That, at this point, is what makes it interesting to me. It was a very successful psyops game and since it has been done so successfully, you can expect to see other similar games run all the time. And once you've seen the tell-tale signs, you can spot it from miles away... for all the good it will do you, since if its done successfully no one will give you the time of day for mentioning it.
Of course, at FR we get used to seeing fake stories on page one and real stories that go down the memory hole. You get used to people having no idea what you're talking about when they get their news from the alphabets and you don't.
Roger that!
“... No one could get at his paper trail,and no one was able to even discuss it in polite company without being drummed out of the public square. ....”
And it can’t be discussed on FR without some (not y’all) posters engaging in the ‘driumming’.