[curiosity]

The original FactCheck article (Born in the USA) made several claims. Those claims were investigated by others. I am not going to trace the links to links this far away from the real-time events. I'm sorry that you weren't here at the time to debate it with us. You can chug through all the old threads if you like. What I recall is that they were invited and given very limited time to see the document.

Well, what you recall is wrong.

The original facsimile of the document was released to the Daily Kos website. Everything from there is tainted fruit, as far as I'm concerned. They should have released it to the AP, or the NYT, if they wanted impeccable credibility.

Yes, sending the firt fascimile to daily kos was a mistake, I agree. However, I fail to see how that taints the document. A document does not become invalidated just because an electronic copy of it gets emailed to some suspect group.

[Political Junkie Too]

Well, what you recall is wrong.

This is what I recall reading. There may have been follow-ups elsehwere, I don't recall that.

Inconsistencies undermine FactCheck report on Obama "birth certificate" from israelinsider:

This would seem to suggest that Factcheck went through the process of requesting the birth certificate (after all, why else reproduce and link the request form?), but no -- it turns out that they had a special invitation to visit the birth certificate at its residence, as if they were visiting some long lost relatives or a reclusive celebrity:

The article goes on to pose many questions, although they don't answer any. I can't recall of later articles elsewhere attempted to answer the questions.

So, now we can move onto the next step of debunking each others sources.

-PJ