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The only thing at this stage of the game that would suffice is an independent document authentication team, perhaps some people from Sotheby’s Auction House with impeccable credentials to examine the real McCoy in the vault with rubber gloves, tweezers, scissors for a radiocarbon date, and a Hasselblad document camera for later forensics, not some legally worthless pdf file released by the WH that came from someone’s personal computer. Also, when you have to provide potentially falsifiable documents like college transcripts, they have to come from THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE with all the appropriate seals, signatures, postmarks and letterhead to verify chain of custody. This pdf “revised COLB” is a complete joke.

[EternalVigilance]

The only thing at this stage of the game that would suffice is an independent document authentication team, perhaps some people from Sotheby’s Auction House with impeccable credentials to examine the real McCoy in the vault with rubber gloves, tweezers, scissors for a radiocarbon date, and a Hasselblad document camera for later forensics, not some legally worthless pdf file released by the WH that came from someone’s personal computer. Also, when you have to provide potentially falsifiable documents like college transcripts, they have to come from THE REGISTRAR’S OFFICE with all the appropriate seals, signatures, postmarks and letterhead to verify chain of custody. This pdf “revised COLB” is a complete joke.

Worth repeating.

[cynwoody]

The only thing at this stage of the game that would suffice is an independent document authentication team, perhaps some people from Sotheby’s Auction House with impeccable credentials to examine the real McCoy in the vault with rubber gloves, tweezers, scissors for a radiocarbon date, and a Hasselblad document camera for later forensics, not some legally worthless pdf file released by the WH that came from someone’s personal computer.

That would be a total waste of time. Look at the last page of this PDF. Either the facts asserted in the document Obama released are the same as what's on file at the Hawaii Department of Health or the are not. If they are, then forgery is not an issue, no matter the quality of the document. If they are not, then the document is a forgery no matter how many experts pronounce it genuine. So, why don't you just ask Ms. Fuddy?

BTW, in case you didn't notice, Sotheby's deals in works by long dead artists. Ms. Fuddy is very much alive. So, we don't need Sotheby's!