Ah, where to even start.
First of all, you can’t be serious that taking a photo of a document with one field covered invalidates the document. As long as the document hasn’t been permanently defaced, it’s as valid as it ever was.
Next, you are right, we see what are undeniably photos of a piece of paper that looks like a COLB and bears what appear to be a seal and a stamp.
I’m afraid that’s all it takes. Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, the piece of paper in those photos is a self-authenticating document. You may not like it, but the law is absolutely clear (FRE 902). That law will be applied even if those reporters are hippies.
And you are foolish to fault them for not being document experts. They were there not to analyze the document but to photograph it. There’s no questions that they did that. No one is relying on their words for anything except that they took the pictures.
And Hawaii has frequently confirmed that the information in the documents is correct.
Other than the preposterous pretense that covering a document temporarily magically renders it invalid, what do you see as actual evidence that the COLB is fake? Not things that makes you suspicious, like hippie photographers, but things that would actually qualify as evidence?
“And Hawaii has frequently confirmed that the information in the documents is correct.”
Hawaii has NEVER confirmed that the information on the short form COLB is correct? Not once have they ever acknowledged it.
The piece of paper would be self-authenticating. But Obama has never been willing to present that piece of paper to a judge or administrative official. Instead, we’ve got photos with exif data saying they were taken months earlier than the story given by those who supposedly took the photos - and the photos they supposedly took have a seal that forgot to bend when the paper it was on bent.
The paper they photographed did not have a seal on it. That could explain why no seal showed up in the first 2 versions of the “scan” that appeared on the web. The “seal” only appeared after people noticed it was missing. Just like the bottom fold of a tri-fold didn’t appear until somebody noticed it was missing...
So why do YOU think Obama won’t submit any of this admissible evidence into court? Or better yet, why wouldn’t he show the paper to Lt Col Lakin’s superiors so a guy with a conscience who intended to keep his oath of office could go to Afghanistan and treat wounded soldiers with a clear conscience? Didn’t have to be a big, scary judicial proceeding. Coulda just been a simple look so somebody credible could see a real seal. Piece of cake. Instead, Obama stiffed Lakin just like he stiffed Ty Woods and the other guys in Benghazi, as well as the SEAL Team 6 members set up to be killed in Extortion 17. The “inconvenience” of THE KING is worth the livelihood of a decorated military surgeon and the lives of a couple dozen of our finest military men, huh? They should be honored to die for a man who couldn’t be bothered to let our military heroes see what he supposedly let a couple of lying punks in Chicago see, right?
I cannot possibly express what a stinking coward this piece of slime in the White House is.
But why do YOU say he refused to let Lakin’s superior’s put his mind at rest, when it would have been so easy to just show them what he allowed Jess Hennig and Joe Miller to see?