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But that’s because real document authentification experts like those who are certified by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners would never do an analysis of a third or fourth generation digitized scan of a document as opposed to an analysis of the original document.

Yours is such a BOGUS argument.

The Forensic Document Examiners you speak of are normally called upon to authenticate a document. To authenticate a document does require examination of the original. But that is not what we are doing here. We are involved in demonstrating that some document is not authentic from a copy of that document.

You might have a look at the London Times of October 26, 1995. According to the Times, Reginald Alton, whom they described as an Oxford Scholar and leading British handwriting expert, declared the supposed suicide note of Vincent Foster to be a poor forgery. Alton, of course, was not given access to the original torn note. All he used to make his pronouncement was the image of the note published in the Wall Street Journal.

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Yours is such a BOGUS argument.

The Forensic Document Examiners you speak of are normally called upon to authenticate a document. To authenticate a document does require examination of the original. But that is not what we are doing here. We are involved in demonstrating that some document is not authentic from a copy of that document.

You might have a look at the London Times of October 26, 1995. According to the Times, Reginald Alton, whom they described as an Oxford Scholar and leading British handwriting expert, declared the supposed suicide note of Vincent Foster to be a poor forgery. Alton, of course, was not given access to the original torn note. All he used to make his pronouncement was the image of the note published in the Wall Street Journal.

ML/NJ

Anybody with evidence of an alleged crime (and forgery is both a “high crime and a misdemeanor”) should take that evidence to a law enforcement agency for further investigation.

I don’t think anybody minds having discussions about whether there is a forgery or not. These discussions are interesting.