“All they really would have had to do, if this whole thing were legit, is fax a certified copy of the bloody original LFBC. The fact that they will now not willingly release whatever the it was from which they “abstracted” the thing they gave the WH, is absurd.”
Seems like Obama went out of his way NOT to “release” it because merely passing a privileged document from HIDOH to a person's personal attorney requires no waiver of privacy regarding any third party, such as the PUBLIC. Obama’s privacy is retained as far as HIDOH is concerned, IMO.
If Obama had waived privacy to some third parties, such as major news organizations, then that would have be a true legal release. The news orgs could have obtained the BC directly from HIDOH and known they were getting a BC which had not passed through the hands of Obama. The provenance of a BC is much better when it has not passed through Obama's hands for obvious reasons, but this would make HI DOH liable for the authenticity, not Obama.
As it stands now it is Obama, not HIDOH, who is on the hook for authenticity despite their supposed "vouching" for the BC Obama released. HIDOH did not vouch for the BC under oath and neither did Obama!
What a startling mind-frying aperçu! By having it handed to a LAWYER, he did not waive the privacy rights he has claimed! (A completely bogus claim, of course.)
So, basically in the Obamian Mind, he is doing us a favor by putting out what he put out, and the LFBC is still confidential.