A quick session in photoshop invalidates this story completely. The BW image used by the WH matches the current posted image at Snopes - NOT the manufactured file at photobucket claimed to the source.
It is easy to see that. I am not sure why this story came out.
That said - it is very, very odd that the WH would use a BW image that is clearly just an Explorer browser screen print (the headers and footers formats are default Explorer settings) instead of fresh new scan and photos of the actual COLB. Unless the COLB in the 2008 images has been destroyed since then. Very odd.
I read this at another site and don’t know whether it’s true or not: Snopes had the Polarik fake and then it was replaced at some point. It was on a Citizen Wells thread quoting from WTPOTUS, IIRC, from a commenter named Miri.