“...Birth Certificate found among his mother’s belongings”
I always wondered why he didn’t just volunteer this one. A certificate of that vintage would not be a computer printed model.
And neither would the other two.
When it comes to the COLB, my opinion is that they got caught in someone else’s lie.
They had no intention of releasing whatever Hawaiian BC is on file.
Some Obama fan doctored one up, probably Jay McKinnon from DailyKOS. He released it, and it went viral.
The Obama team had to take ownership at that point, so as not to be obligated to release whatever one is on file.