“If you were a state official and the AG of another state asked you to verify whether Barry’s claimed BC was legit, would you regard the matter as significant enough to warrant your personal verifiable signature and not a signature stamp accompanied by unverifiable initials?”
It wasn’t an AG but SoS that requested the verifications, and maybe I would take it seriously. Then again if I thought the SoS was involved in a publicity stunt or trying to placate a group of people who had for four years been vilifying you and your office and bothering your employees maybe not.
“Then again if I thought the SoS was involved in a publicity stunt or trying to placate a group of people who had for four years been vilifying you and your office and bothering your employees maybe not.”
The appearance of deliberate creation of plausible deniability arises when a former federal LEO with 50 years experience who is Sheriff of one of the largest counties in the country claims to have proof beyond doubt that the image Onaka was being asked to certify is forged and Onaka won’t step up to personally sign the verification or declare that it is a true and correct copy. Instead Onaka says the date “matches.” Not the same thing.
If Zullo’s claims of having a laboratory certification of the forgery are true and an AG of a state proves it up in court in a criminal case, then Onaka is in trouble.