The story is that Obama’s lawyer flew to Hawaii to pick up two paper copies.
The PDF file belies the fact that the “supposed paper document” that Obama’s people showed at the press conference was not hand-stamped by a person.That is a security feature.
It should have been that Hawaii printed a hard copy of the document, then a human being hand stamps the date and signature blocks. No way that hand-stamp text block came off a scan of the document Obama released. It was imported into the PDF file.
That means Hawaii (or the forger) gave him a PDF file not a hard copy. Why would Hawaii not just hand-stamp it when the lawyer came to pick them up.
So is Hawaii allowed to issue “alterable” PDF files in the place of paper documents that have been hand-stamped by a human being? That seems absurd on the face of it.
Ultimately, I will have to go with the Sheriff Joe’s Cold Case Posse with regards to the “probable cause for forgery.” They know the laws better than I do.
I have offered a suggestion to explain this.
*IF* the document were produced by court order, the DOH may have sent a PDF file to the Obama Attorney for approval prior to printing and stamping a paper document.
The attorney may have looked at it and concluded it was exactly what he wanted and so sent word back that the document was acceptable. He then went to Hawaii, obtained two official stamped paper copies, and brought them back to Washington. When Obama said he wanted to post the document on the White House Website, the attorney could have simply emailed the PDF to the White House staff without realizing that the details of how it was put together were contained in the file.
It was a blunder by someone trained primarily in law, not in the computer technology involved. (A Highly Plausible ignorance among most attorneys.) I dare say, MOST people are unaware that a PDF can contain information that people don't want known.
The fact is this. Somehow a PDF of his "official" long form birth certificate was created. It was either created by a scan which was "optimized" (the prevalent O-bot theory) or it was created by someone who copied and pasted the document together out of pieces.
Which one do you think is more probable?