That's old information (August 13th or earlier) and only refers to the low res image at fight the smears. The Annenberg photos were not available when she made that statement. For the original article, see for example, http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:fisRL6I9VrsJ:www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D2008808130384+Health+Department+spokeswoman+Janice+Okubo&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us
Yes, I understand that it is old info. So how did she stumble upon the excuse that it was redacted to prevent hackers? Is that what Obama told her afterwards? Or is she pulling it out of he ass? Or was she complicit and instructed them to redact it?
If the Dept. of Health redacted the file number, FactCheck’s photos were taken March.
So FactCheck has a document with a file number showing. Therefore, the Dept. of Health didn’t redact the number.
Plus, how does that jibe with this from Fact Check:
The campaign didn’t release its copy until 2008, after speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obama’s citizenship. The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna: “[We] couldn’t get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side of blacking it out. Since then we’ve found out it’s pretty irrelevant for the outside world.”
Answer: it doesn’t. There is something going on here that stinks to high heaven