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.
Cannon had some valid complaints, to which I privately concurred.
However, when he stepped into the “I don’t doubt that the Kos COLB image is genuine,” I had to step in and challenged him on it.
I’ve read a fair amount by Cannon. He flaps his gums a little too loosely for me to take him seriously.
Publicity is key. We both know it is a forgery. Others’ speculating and reporting that it is a forgery, regardless of the precision of their particular technical analysis (or lack thereof) is welcome.
I do not agree that the barrel is spoiled. Techdude has some good analysis along with his not so good analysis. It certainly is not helpful to claim to find Maya’s name there if no one else can replicate it, but if Techdude’s continued analysis helps publicize the fact that it is a forgery, then good.
Similar to the NE and Edwards. Even if the ‘lovechild’ is not Silky’s, the fact is the Enquirer KNEW they were having an affair, and the term lovechild, accurate or not, helped publicize the story. So they may have got some of the details wrong, they still nailed him.
I assumed the COLB was a fake even before your analysis proved it based on two things: The crappy way the border misaligned, and the fact that it did not look like any scanned document I’ve ever seen, rather it looked like it was created via computer. That would not be possible since the DOH does not email such documents and would therefore have had to be a scanned jpeg, which it wasn’t.
Surely we have amongst the many enterprising Freepers just one who has a contact at National Enquirer. If so, it is time to make that phone call or send that e-mail.
Do it.
LOL.
Honestly, I had originally thought the whole CoLB thing was a tempest in a teapot. That Obama was born to an American mom, therefore he was “natural born” — and that was after skimming over Blackstone on that term. Your perseverance along with others on the forgery and all the information sharing and discussions all we all have had here and on other forums have really helped me understand the issue, to settle out the specks of gold in the wash pan.
I was there while Zia was president. My dad was there working for USAID off and on in the 80's.
There was actually a major American presence in Pakistan at that time - the US extended a bunch of aid to Pakistan in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980.
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