You said, “I’m more inclined to think that Hawaii after having tried to make something of a good faith effort, however poorly, figured out that they were dealing with kooks who weren’t going to be happy with what they got unless if confirm their presumptions. And that after a point there was no reason to continue the exercise.”
Okubo’s statement appeared to be a triumphant answer to refute the questions people had regarding whether “date filed” means something was deficient with the certificate. She thought she was trumping us all.
In fact, she thought so much of her answer that she sent an unsolicited triumphant e-mail to another colleague of mine, saying she had a better answer to give him than her previous answer of (paraphrased) “We don’t need to answer no steenkin’ questions from the likes of you!”
She thought she was telling us what we DIDN’T want to hear; had no clue that what she said was a knife in the back of the Factcheck COLB.
Regardless of her motives, the facts she stated are either correct (in which case Factcheck is known to be a forgery) or else she triumphantly told a lie in order to get people to shut up (in which case there’s good reason to wonder what ELSE she has lied about to keep powerful people from pressuring her...) No matter how you slice it, an investigation is definitely in order.
Or she was simply wrong. Can you accept this as a possibility?