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Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom
Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.
The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.
The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.
Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.
McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.
(Excerpt) Read more at web.israelinsider.com ...
“Zactly.
Try this:
kansasprairie.net » BARACK OBAMA SR. AND JR.
Compare the photos same tie, same suit and photo taken in very same spot.
Interesting.
I forgot to mention it’s the first site that saysDec 1, 2007 ... Barack Obama Sr. poses with his son in the Honolulu airport during Obama Sr.’s :
However, there are Christmas decorations in the background in that picture, which would not place it in February, as the airport would have taken them down by then. I suspect that picture was taken between Thanksgiving and Christmas, which was typically when Christmas decorations were put out.
-PJ
Was HNL two levels in 1961?
Just found this at Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/omg——blogger.html#comments
Posted by: Underzog | Friday, July 04, 2008 at 05:27 PM
As a real forensic computer investigator (board certified, investigated thousands of cases, access to a full forensic computer lab, yadda yadda...) I decided to jump into the fray over the fake vs real discussion a week ago when a friend of mine challenged me to see what I could find (since according to him, the document was clearly a real one). He is what one would call a slightly rabid Obama supporter – he even has the tattoo to prove it.
First things first...I used the latest online KOS version (downloaded 6/29/2008) as it was supposedly the first released digital copy and the Decosta certificate from Israel Insider’s blog (also downloaded 6/29/2008) as an exemplar of a real certificate.
Of forensic interest on the KOS version is the EXIF metadata (encoded in the digital image data) showing that the KOS certificate was modified or created with “Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh” on “2008:06:12 08:42:36”. Assuming the EXIF data was added after the document was scanned (assuming it is real) and the document modified only by placing a black-out section over the Certificate Number or if it was converted and saved for web use this would not be too unusual. The Daily KOS released the story on “2008:06:12 08:44:37” which would be 2 minutes after the graphic’s EXIF stamp was created.
Before I became a forensic geek I worked for [a herein nameless publicly traded company] that designed counterfeit detection hardware and software for the banking and retail industry. The company was very high profile and we received training from [a certain herein nameless department of the Federal government that knows a thing or two about counterfeiting] - but I do not claim to be an all around expert in Questioned Documents but after several years of working with them I do know what to look for to spot an obvious fake.
That being said...I too was able to see “something” that looked like a seal - however even using highly specialized software (specifically designed for law enforcement and forensic examiner use for cleaning up digital images and video) I was unable to recover anything more than what others have previously released using a basic find edges and modification of the contrast. Even when the background security paper pattern was removed there was not enough of a “seal” to view anything usable or verifiable which is a bit odd but still might be possible if the seal had been completely flattened out in the mail, etc. There is also a fold which runs vertically across the top of the certificate which is close to the same location on the Decosta certificate.
At this point I was beginning to believe the certificate was real until I resized and overlaid the Decosta certificate on top of the KOS version. All things being equal there was a 3.82% difference in the size of the KOS version vs the Decosta certificate - but again depending on the optical distortion from the scanner this too was explainable. But upon manually stretching them to match edge to edge I caught a glimpse of what I and apparently everyone else had simply not noticed. The security borders do not match. Literally. They are not even close to identical. For instance “Decosta” contains five 10 pixel wide “diamonds” per vertical row while the “KOS Obama” contains 2 to 2 1/4 36 pixel wide diamonds per vertical row. These differences can clearly be observed even with the naked eye although you may need to enlarge the graphics on your screen. Taking the measurements further - Decosta’s “Certification of Live Birth” heading is centered between security diamond pattern and is 762 pixels wide @ 0% angle while Obama’s “Certification of Live Birth” heading is not centered evenly between security diamond pattern and is 794 pixels wide @ 0% angle. Decosta’s “Any Alterations” footer is centered evenly between security diamond pattern and is 1244 pixels wide @ 0% angle while Obama’s “Any Alterations” footer is not centered evenly between security diamond pattern and is 1294 pixels wide @ 0% angle. I kept the comparative screen shots in case anyone wants them.
I am unable to explain the differences between the security diamond sizes and counts and the un-centered portions (meaning the diamond pattern ends on an odd pattern instead of even where it meets the edges of the header and footer boxes). Looking closer at the KOS certificate (magnified to 400%) clearly shows inconsistencies in the security border such as cut and paste marks and overlaying of the side borders where they meet the top and bottom. This effect is not observed in the Decosta certificate at any magnification. Another point of interest, removing the background security pattern did not remove the background area from underneath the security border on the KOS certificate. The color and hue values of the background pattern located and viewable through the security border are also not a match to the rest of the certificate background. I can not explain these discrepancies. I then noticed there were some indications that the background pattern had been duplicated and placed in various locations to clean up the document. Now at some point I just started to laugh and went out for a smoke and gave up looking for more.
I am convinced that the certificate is a fake (and not really a very good one) and I went into this with a completely open mind (something the Obamanationalists seem to have lost). I also have to say that everyone who has been looking into this federal crime (and it is a federal crime even if the certificates were never meant to be used for identification) have done a stupendous job and I wish they all worked for my lab. Talk about a winning team.
Posted by: techdude | Friday, July 04, 2008 at 09:19 PM
If you compare both photos, you will see the same decorations in BOTH pictures.
I suspect they are both leaving and she is 3 months pregnant. If they were both leaving after Baracks birth she would be holding Barack. If he was leaving on his own, after Baracks birth, she would still be holding Barack. There is nothing that I have read or seen that would indicate Barack Sr left pregnant Ann to go home to Kenya.
In reading in the Time magazine she met Barack Obama Sr. in a Russian-Language class. I presume she started in the Fall when school usually begins. Then later in the article it says "At 18, she dropped out of college after one semester, according to University of Hawaii records. When her friends back in Washington heard the news, "we were very shocked,"
This leads me to think it was because she was pregnant and the two of them Barack Sr, and her then went over seas as is seen by the two of them at the airport.
Only on the BC page. On the main page, they say "Barack Obama has made his birth certificate public and it can be seen here."
OT (but on the general topic of Obama’s lies, damned lies, and deceptions): does anyone else remember that when Obama was getting heat for his racist Chicago church and minister, he made a statement to the effect that he’d had a very conventional Christian upbringing, that his grandparents were of Middle American Methodist stock, etc.??
That’s a total LIE in relation to how things stood by the 1960s. Yes, his grandparents (mother’s side) were raised in Middle American Kansas, but by the time Obama came around they’d “shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing” and been attending the “little red church on the hill” for years, and his mother Stanley was a devout atheist (see statements in 2007 article linked below):
[I am sick of the LIES from Obama and his campaign - lies about his radical racist minister and everything else, lies about Obama’s real political, economic, and social beliefs, etc. - he is a radical red-diaper baby who in adulthood has embraced and expanded upon the left-wing beliefs in which he was steeped, now suddenly pretending to be mainstream]
“Madelyn and Stanley shed their Methodist and Baptist upbringing and began attending Sunday services at the East Shore Unitarian Church in nearby Bellevue.”
“”In the 1950s, this was sometimes known as ‘the little Red church on the hill,’ “ said Peter Luton, the church’s senior minister, referring to the effects of McCarthyism. Skepticism, the kind that Stanley embraced and passed on to his daughter, was welcomed here.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,1,7525017.story?page=3
That is true, but with the #, you could verify all of the info on this exact document, and that is why they blanked it out.
That is just flat out nuts. The Obama campaign has certified to the world that the document being shown is a genuine copy. If it is not, there will be hell to pay and they will discredit only themselves big time. People GO TO JAIL for forging documents like birth certificates. Anyone who says they could just laugh this is delusional.
If he was born in Hawaii he has the same right to be president as any anchor baby born in Calixco.
Google is watching us, Google is...
Good point about the decorations - but it might have been late Dec. or early Jan. - then she probably would have been only 2 months pregnant? Of course I’m not sure we ‘know’ the photo has anything to do with a wedding or couple-related travel at all. That’s just what it said in one article?? But unless the photo was precisely dated at the time (which I don’t think many people ever did in the pre-digital days), whoever said she was “3 months” pregnant at time of that photo may have been guess or “mis-remembering”.....
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odd,,,weren’t those supposed to be at different times,,looks like the same to me.
Even the same guy in the background.
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