All of this assumes there was a paper original. One has not been seen.
Except by Dr. Chiyome Fukino, former director of the Hawaii Department of Health, Dr. Alvin T. Onaka, Hawaii state Registrar, Loretta Fuddy, current director of the Hawaii Department of Health and whoever the staff person was who made the photocopies for Obama’s attorney, Judith Corley to take back to D.C.
Former Governor Lingle:
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Senator McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. It’s been established. He was born here.”—May 4, 2010
“On April 22, 2011, President Obama sent a letter to Director Fuddy, requesting two certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth. Also on that day, Judith Corley, the President’s personal attorney, made the same request in writing on behalf of the President.
On April 25, 2011, pursuant to President Obama’s request, Director Fuddy personally witnessed the copying of the original Certificate of Live Birth and attested to the authenticity of the two copies. Dr. Alvin Onaka, the State Registrar, certified the copies.
President Obama authorized Ms. Corley to pick up the documents. On April 25, 2011, Ms. Corley appeared in person at the Hawai„i State Department of Health building in Honolulu, paid the requisite fee, and was given the two certified copies, a response letter from Director Fuddy to President Obama, and a receipt for payment.”
Apparently these guys had a pristine original to work with.
They're claiming to have gotten exactly the same results by using the same starting conditions and equipment...
Per GregNH:
“All of this assumes there was a paper original. One has not been seen.”
Per NBC:
“I printed out the Whitehouse PDF and scanned it back in.”
NBC claims to have simply printed out a color copy of the WH pdf and then scanned it back into the Xerox 7655. If this is true then there COULD have been a hard copy original...which itself could have been a forgery for numerous suspected reasons unrelated to the layers and floating Onaka and date blocks.
Obots have always claimed that “birthers” would claim that the hard copy supposedly brought back to the WH was a forgery, if it was ever proved that the pdf layers could be replicated. Given the mysterious failure to find the original for years in the HI vault, even by the current governor, forgery is still obviously a possibility.
Reed Hayes 40-page report to Zullo affirming forgery could well have little to do with the pdf layers and may be based on other anomalies.
We have photographs of the paper original that were taken by Savannah Guthrie.