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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.

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!

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Sotheby’s has people that can authenticate a rare baseball card, as well as mundane things like documents.

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BTW, in case you didn't notice, Sotheby's deals in works by long dead artists.

They also verify/authenticate documents, coins, furniture, porcelain, firearms, autographs, paintings, sculpture, automobiles, record albums, time pieces, gemstones, military uniforms, and just about any other type of rare collectible that may grace the auction block. They make the guys on the Antiques Roadshow program look like amateurs. To say they only deal in works by long dead artists is laughable.