Posted on 08/05/2008 7:20:42 AM PDT by pissant
Independent analysts, working separately, have discovered that the original Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth used in the fabrication of the Barack Obama "birth certificate" belongs to the Presidential candidate's younger half-sister, Maya.
Examining the high resolution image originally posted by the "Daily Kos" left-wing blog and subsequently claimed as authentic by the campaign, and posted in lower resolution on the campaign official "Fight the Smears" website, at least two analysts have been able to independently discern the name "Maya Kassandra Soetoro" from artifacts left behind in the process of forging a new fake document for Barack from an image of Maya's original document. Additional confirmatory information, such as her birthday and the nationality of her father have also been resurrected. A full report documenting all details is to be published in the coming days.
The dramatic development comes just a day after a forensic specialist, posting on the Texas Darling blog under the name Techdude (his real name is known to Israel Insider), announced the discovery of the identity of the original owner of the COLB document used in the forgery but would initially only indicate that it was a woman born in the 1970's. However, he provided enough clues to enable another graphic specialist (screen name KG) to independently reproduce the incriminating evidence. (Techdude had said that he wanted to give the guilty parties time to confess to the forgery, but also to allow independent confirmation of his discovery. He even offered to pay for a trip to Vegas to the first person to discover the name and detail the method by which it was discovered.)
According to Texas Darling, which exclusively published these latest revelations, there is more to come: "In the coming days, Techdude will provide a final report that fully discloses his discovery, and provides all the fancy technical data, images, formulae etc. that everyone has come to expect. He will respond to questions posted on this blog to the best of his ability. (NOTE: KG has asked Techdude to donate the trip funds to help retire Hillary's debt, and Techdude has agreed.)" In the meantime, KG has posted details on how artifacts of the name "Maya Kassandra Soetero" were discerned.
The revelation that the COLB of Obama's own sister was evidently used to create the electronic forgery represents a "smoking gun" that appears to implicate Senator Obama directly. Hawaii law limits access to vital records to family members only, a fact which slowed down the ability of researchers to compare the purported Obama "birth certificate" -- which displayed from the start a peculiar provenance and inexplicable features -- to genuine specimens. Therefore, it would seem that either Maya K. Soetoro-Ng (as she is now called) supplied the document or its image to half-brother Barack or his campaign, or Obama/his campaign used it without her permission.
It appears unlikely, to say the least, that the campaign would have independently managed to obtain Maya's COLB, forged Barak's fake COLB using Maya's original, and verified the result as genuine without the candidate's knowledge and involvement. This is particularly true given the high profile treatment with which the campaign has treated the purported veracity of the supposed "birth certificate" in its Fight the Smears website. The apparent use of the Soetero document increases the likelihood of direct Obama involvement in the supply, production, and/or propagation of the forgery.
The stakes couldn't be higher. Even the Snopes anti-rumor site acknowledges that Obama's constitutional fitness to be president depends solely on his being born in the United States, because his mother -- not yet 19 at the time of his birth -- would not have had a sufficient number of years as an adult citizen, according to the laws prevailing at the time, to pass on "natural born citizenship" automatically.
There have been reports, so far unconfirmed, that Obama was born outside the country, either in Kenya, his presumed father's native land, or in Canada. The fact that the Obama campaign has been touting as genuine a forgery since June 12 will likely increase pressure to not only account for the fake but produce a genuine paper birth certificate. Obama, in his book Dreams from My Father, specifically mentioned having such a document in his possession, but it has not been submitted for public inspection or analysis if it in fact exists.
Intriguingly, too, Maya Soetoro-Ng is believed to have been born outside the United States, in Indonesia, so her apparent ownership of a Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth raises questions about how such a document was produced for an Indonesian-born girl. That, too, may shed light on Barack Obama's citizenship status and his ability, or inability, to document it.
Ironically, but perhaps not coincidentally, the Obama campaign has challenged the credentials of Republican opponent John McCain, because he makes no secret of being born out of the country, in Panama. But both of McCain's parents were Americans so, unlike Obama, are by statute able to pass on natural born citizen status to their foreign-born child.
“...He would have to withdraw due to fraudulent statements to the federal government....”
If we, the “little people” made fraudulent statements to the feds, we’d be looking at some serious jail time. But since this is Nobama we’re talking about.........
I guess I am just waiting for Techdude to show his findings. I am not saying it isn’t possible. I notice that it is Hillary’s people pushing this.
You know, you are right.
If all the information Texas Darling has drug up is true, he even got back into the US under shady circumstances. And got into a private school with the aid of his father’s boss. Then affirmative action kicked in once college started.
I always wondered if a half black, half white person only got half the stuff affirmative action brought. I doubt it.
If what was posted online was a forgery or was legitimately questionable, we would have heard from the Hawaii government. There is simply no way that a forgery would have been floating around for weeks like this without someone in the Hawaiian government speaking up about it.
Heck, the media might love Obama, but your average reporter would give his firstborn to be the one to break a story that would disqualify a Presidential candidate from running.
Simply put, pulling off a fraud like this tests the bounds of reality. There are too many people, from reporters, the Hillary campaign, to the McCain campaign, that would love nothing more than to get Obama out of the race. If those people, with many more resources available to them than the posters on a website, haven't found the smoking gun evidence, it most likely doesn't exist.
I don't think that happened.
Did you know Pakistan has a Buddhist, Christian and Hindu minority? Folks been there thousands of years.
Saudi Arabians killed, cooked and ate all the Christians and Buddhists in their part of the world long ago.
I think you are confounding Saudi with Pakistan.
His father was not American and his mother was not old enough to have a “natural born citizen” of her own right.
Quit while your behind.
Actually not.
The issue was initially about birth here or abroad, but has now uncovered the possibility, very very good possibility that he is a dual citizen of Indonesia due the adoption of his stepfather.
If he is a dual, not eligible for POTUS.
Also, that would explain the BC cover up as Hawaii destroys originals when adopted.
Well if Snopes said it, it must be true!
That was sarcasm at the article.
So in your expert opinion... which justices have the most experience in Photoshop? :)
Wouldn't that be a violation of BHO's privacy rights at this point?
..and there is the rub...
I agree with you. People wander in and don’t realize the magnitude of this, and the extensive amount of research having been done and just shrug it off as if we are swearing aliens came and kidnapped up out of bedrooms.
“Also, he took a trip to Pakistan in 1981. No one that wasn’t muslim could enter Pakistan and certainly no one American. “
Authority for this? I lived there from ‘65 to ‘67 and my mom just returned from a teaching mission there 2 weeks ago, and we’re both Christian.
Colonel, USAFR
And then we could go through 8 years of hearing how McCain or Hillary or whoever was given the presidency by the Supreme Court. Man....it is like de ja vu all over again...
Don’t cloud the issue with facts, dude.
Justice Scalia to Justice Breyer: “No that’s not a hanging chad you dummy. That was the last case. It’s clearly a hanging pixel...”
I’m wondering if the DNC even knew about this and BO hoped it never popped up.
If enough people make a stink about this, they may to rethink hoping it never got noticed, or not knowing in the first place.
does the constitution even address dual citizenship?
don’t think that would legally affect a native US born dual citizenship holder.
“He’ll be joyfully carried to meet Him
On the wings of that great speckled bird.”
Sorry Roy!
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