[vortigern]

I took the PDF and opened it Illustrator... It has multiple layers. No reason for a scan of a document to divide into these multiple layers unless it has been manipulated in some way. The security paper is on a layer all by itself. This image is bogus. Need to get some experts on this, because the press isn't going to do it.

[Jeff Winston]

What's telling in this image, about the nature of these layers, is all of the little stray letters left behind. Virtually every kind of visual element that you or I would consider a cohesive whole is split up.

"None" is split into "Non" and "e." The "D" splits off of "Dunham." The bottom signature is split up, too. Both date stamps at bottom are split into different layers, though in different places. The "R" is split out of "BARACK." In the tiny print you can catch split-out bits of words. "add" "Co"

All of this speaks to a machine driven process, not something that a human being has designed from elements cut and pasted together.

Sorry to all who thought this was the smoking gun.

[Cobra64]

On another thread, there was a link to a great You Tube video that you did on this matter. I can’t find the link to the video.

[reegs]

The PDF layer issue is a dead end. I've verified it myself. I printed the PDF as supplied by the White House. At my place of work, we have copiers that can scan a document, save it as a PDF and email it to yourself. After scanning the print out and sending it to myself as a PDF, I opened the PDF in Adobe Illustrator.

As you can see from the image below, the scanning software DID seperate elements as can be seen by the Illustrator handles. These would be picked up as separate layers. I was able to move these elements including the black type. Moving the type did leave a white area beneath it.