Thread: Barack Obama's citizenship questioned

A "temporary coup" in the White House by the military? You decide.

Note: This update comes some 24 hours after our longtime Washington D.C.
Insider first outlined shocking details of an Obama administration having
been "overruled" by senior military and intelligence officials leading up to
the successful attack against terrorist Osama Bin Laden. What follows is
further clarification of Insider's insights surrounding that event.

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Q: You stated that President Obama was "overruled" by military/intelligence
officials regarding the decision to send in military specialists into the
Osama Bin Laden compound. Was that accurate?

A: I was told - in these exact terms, "we overruled him." (Obama) I have
since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant,
as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president's
"persistent hesitation to act." There appears NOT to have been an outright
overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there
was no specific position from the president to do so. President Obama was,
in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.

I was correct in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for
several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton,
Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper. The primary opposition to
this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was
enough to create uncertainty within President Obama. Obama would meet
with various components of the pro-invasion faction, almost always with
Jarrett present, and then often fail to indicate his position. This situation
continued for some time, though the division between Jarrett/Obama
and the rest intensified more recently, most notably from Hillary Clinton.
She was livid over the president's failure to act, and her office began a
campaign of anonymous leaks to the media indicating such. As for Jarrett,
her concern rested on two primary fronts. One, that the military action
could fail and harm the president's already weakened standing with both the
American public and the world. Second, that the attack would be viewed as
an act of aggression against Muslims, and further destabilize conditions in
the Middle East .

Q: What changed the president's position and enabled the attack against
Osama Bin Laden to proceed?

A: Nothing changed with the president's opinion - he continued to avoid
having one. Every time military and intelligence officials appeared to make
progress in forming a position, Jarrett would intervene and the stalling
would begin again. Hillary started the ball really rolling as far as
pressuring Obama began, but it was Panetta and Petraeus who ultimately
pushed Obama to finally act - sort of. Panetta was receiving significant
reports from both his direct CIA sources, as well as Petraeus-originating
Intel. Petraeus was threatening to act on his own via a bombing attack.
Panetta reported back to the president that a bombing of the compound
would result in successful killing of Osama Bin Laden, and little risk to
American lives. Initially, as he had done before, the president indicated a
willingness to act. But once again, Jarrett intervened, convincing the
president that innocent Pakistani lives could be lost in such a bombing
attack, and Obama would be left attempting to explain Panetta's failed
policy. Again Obama hesitated - this time openly delaying further meetings
to discuss the issue with Panetta. A brief meeting was held at this time
with other officials, including Secretary Gates and members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, but Gates, like Panetta, was unable to push the president
to act. It was at this time that Gates indicated to certain Pentagon
officials that he may resign earlier than originally indicated - he was that
frustrated. Both Panetta and Clinton convinced him to stay on and see the
operation through.

What happened from there is what was described by me as a "masterful
manipulation" by Leon Panetta. Panetta indicated to Obama that leaks
regarding knowledge of Osama Bin Laden's location were certain to get out
sooner rather than later, and action must be taken by the administration or
the public backlash to the president's inaction would be "...significant to
the point of political debilitation." It was at that time that Obama stated
an on-ground campaign would be far more acceptable to him than a bombing
raid. This was intended as a stalling tactic, and it had originated from
Jarrett. Such a campaign would take both time, and present a far greater
risk of failure. The president had been instructed by Jarrett to inform
Mr., Panetta that he would have sole discretion to act against the Osama Bin
Laden compound. Jarrett believed this would further delay Panetta from
acting, as the responsibility for failure would then fall almost entirely on
him. What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon
Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him -and only him,
involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound. Basically,
the whole damn operation was already ready to go - including the specific
team support Intel necessary to engage the enemy within hours of being
given notice. Panetta then made plans to proceed with an on-ground assault.
This information reached either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates first (likely via
military contacts directly associated with the impending mission) who then
informed the other. Those two then met with Panetta, who informed each of
them he had been given the authority by the president to proceed with a
mission if the opportunity presented itself. Both Gates and Clinton warned
Panetta of the implications of that authority - namely he was possibly being
made into a scapegoat. Panetta admitted that possibility, but felt the
opportunity to get Bin Laden outweighed that risk. During that meeting,
Hillary Clinton was first to pledge her full support for Panetta, indicating
she would defend him if necessary. Similar support was then followed by
Gates. The following day, and with Panetta's permission, Clinton met in
private with Bill Daley and urged him to get the president's full and open
approval of the Panetta plan. Daley agreed such approval would be of great
benefit to the action, and instructed Clinton to delay proceeding until he
had secured that approval. Daley contacted Clinton within hours of their
meeting indicating Jarrett refused to allow the president to give that
approval. Daley then informed Clinton that he too would fully support
Panetta in his actions, even if it meant disclosing the president's
indecision to the American public should that action fail to produce a
successful conclusion. Clinton took that message back to Panetta and the
CIA director initiated the 48 hour engagement order. At this point, the
President of the United States was not informed of the engagement order -
it did not originate from him, and for several hours after the order had been
given and the special ops forces were preparing for action into Pakistan
from their position in Afghanistan , Daley successfully kept Obama and
Jarrett insulated from that order.

This insulation ended at some point with an abort order that I believe
originated from Valerie Jarrett's office, and was then followed up by
President Obama. This abort order was later explained as a delay due to
weather conditions, but the actual conditions at that time would have been
acceptable for the mission. A storm system had been in the area earlier,
but was no longer an issue. Check the data yourself to confirm. Jarrett,
having been caught off guard, was now scrambling to determine who had
initiated the plan. She was furious, repeating the acronym "CoC" ["Chain of
Command"] and saying it was not being followed. This is where Bill Daley
intervened directly. The particulars of that intervention are not clear to me
beyond knowing he did meet with Jarrett in his office and following that
meeting, Valerie Jarrett was not seen in the West Wing for some time, and
apparently no longer offered up any resistance to the Osama Bin Laden mission.
What did follow from there was one or more brief meetings between Bill Daley,
Hillary Clinton, a representative from Robert Gates' office, a representative
from Leon Panetta's office, and a representative from Jim Clapper's office.
I have to assume that these meetings were in essence, detailing the move
to proceed with the operation against the Osama Bin Laden compound.
I have been told by more than one source that Leon Panetta was directing
the operation with both his own CIA operatives, as well as direct contacts
with military - both entities were reporting to Panetta only at this point,
and not the President of the United States . There was not going to be
another delay as had happened 24 hour earlier. The operation was at
this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie
Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated.
President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted
back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival
there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and
a high ranking member of the military. When Obama emerged from
the briefing, he was described as looking "very confused and uncertain."
The president was then placed in the situation room where several of
the players in this event had already been watching the operation unfold.
Another interesting tidbit regarding this is that the Vice President was
already "up to speed" on the operation. A source indicated they believe
Hillary Clinton had personally made certain the Vice President was made
aware of that day's events before the president was. The now famous
photo released shows the particulars of that of that room and its
occupants. What that photo does not communicate directly is that the
military personnel present in that room during the operation unfolding,
deferred to either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates. The president's role
was minimal, including their acknowledging of his presence in the room.

At the conclusion of the mission, after it had been repeatedly confirmed a
success, President Obama was once again briefed behind closed doors. The
only ones who went in that room besides the president were Bill Daley. John
Brennan, and a third individual whose identity remains unknown to me. When
leaving this briefing, the president came out of it "...much more confident.
Much more certain of himself." He was also carrying papers in his hand that
quite possibly was the address to the nation given later that evening on the
Bin Laden mission. The president did not have those papers with him prior
to that briefing. The president then returned to the war room, where by this
time, Leon Panetta had personally arrived and was receiving congratulations
from all who were present.

In my initial communication to you of these events I described what unfolded
as a temporary Coup initiated by high ranking intelligence and military
officials. I stand by that term. These figures worked around the uncertainty
of President Obama and the repeated resistance of Valerie Jarrett. If they had
not been willing to do so, I am certain Osama Bin Laden would still be alive
today. There will be no punishment to those who acted outside the authority
of the president's office. The president cannot afford to admit such a fact.
What will be most interesting from here is to now see what becomes of
Valerie Jarrett. One source indicated she is threatening resignation. I find
that unlikely given my strong belief she needs the protection afforded her by
the Oval Office and its immense powers to delay and eventually terminate
investigations back in Chicago, but we shall see.

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A "temporary coup" in the White House by the military?

Minuteman, this is a very powerful and telling memo if it is true, and could very well spell doom for Obama despite the bump in the polls that he received after the raid. What it indicates to me is that there are high ranking officials that see Obama as impotent and a potential danger to the country. The web of deceit is unraveling.

Originally Posted by TexasBorn

A "temporary coup" in the White House by the military?

Minuteman, this is a very powerful and telling memo if it is true, and could very well spell doom for Obama despite the bump in the polls that he received after the raid. What it indicates to me is that there are high ranking officials that see Obama as impotent and a potential danger to the country. The web of deceit is unraveling.

And this is news to who? Not anyone in this room! LOL

White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden


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by Ulsterman in Issues, May 3, 2011"What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound."



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A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY

Hawaii detective charges: 'Birth certificate' a fraud

Claims phonies created by state in order to 'screw with birthers'

Posted: May 08, 2011
5:48 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WorldNetDaily

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HONOLULU, Hawaii – A private investigator claims employees of the state Department of Health forged three Hawaiian birth certificates for Barack Obama to "screw with birthers."

Takeyuki Irei told WND one document placed the birth at Kapiolani hospital, another at Queens Medical Center and a third in Kenya.

The 57-year-old detective, who has been a P.I. since the 1980s, said he was stunned when he discovered that the purported copy of Obama's original birth certificate released by the White House was more or less an exact image of one of the forgeries.

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Irei said he was provided a copy of the document indicating a Queens birthplace but ascribed no importance to it. He explained that he was focused on finding evidence that Obama was born in Kenya, which he thought would provide a financial windfall.

He also said a likeness of the certificate indicating a Kenyan birthplace was published more than a year ago by a website that presented itself as a Hawaiian news organization. Later, it spread virally even though it was rejected as fraudulent by investigators, because the purported signature of Obama's maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was misspelled.

pdf download link http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default ... g-form.pdf

Image released by the White House April 27, 2011

The image released by the White House was trumpeted as "proof positive" Obama was born in Hawaii in an announcement accompanied by a rare presidential statement on the issue.

However, few other officials were talking. Hawaii authorities ordered WND not to contact the state employee identified as the source of the phony certificates. Also, WND learned the state's employees had been ordered not to respond to WND questions.

Officials at Kapiolani also refused WND permission to ask questions of anyone at the hospital. Spokesman Shawn Nakamoto told WND the hospital would not respond to anyone at "your organization."

Likewise, officials at Punahou High School, where Obama graduated, also refused WND access to information that often is available, such as copies of student newspapers.

Irei explained the state employee told him the fake records were kept in a vault in Room 303 of the Hawaii Department of Health. The room, next to the director's office, is well known and holds files such as the records of residents of the Kalaupapa leper colony on the island of Molokai.

But Irei pointed out that the obviously fraudulent Kenya-birth document published by the Aloha Reporter website contains markings that appear to coincide with markings found on the document recently released by the White House.

There is no explanation of the image, which can be seen here:



Among other things, the "Certificate of Live Birth" on the Reporter page says the birthplace was "Kenya; Registered Honolulu HRS 338-17-8 per Grandmother."

The document lists the race for the father, "Barack Hussein Obama Sr.," as "Negro-African."

But it was the document released by the White House April 27 that stunned Irei.

He said the document indicating Obama's birth as Kapiolani looks just like the Queens Medical Center document he had previously possessed, except the hospital name and the doctor's name were different.

"When I saw the birth certificate the White House released, I realized the story had changed from Obama being born at Queens, to him being born at Kapiolani," the detective told WND. "In 2008, when I first got the birth certificate, all the news reports [were] that Obama had been born at Queens."

As WND reported, United Press International and Snopes stated at one time that Obama had been born in Queens Medical Center.

But after a WND story on the topic was published, both sites suddenly changed the birth hospital to Honolulu's Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

At the time, Snopes sent WND a statement reading, "A number of readers have written to us to point out that Wikipedia previously updated their Obama-related entries to resolve the same discrepancy, so we included a similar clarification in our latest round of updates."

WND requested confirmation from the state Department of Health that the image released by the White House is an accurate representation of the original Hawaii records. Spokeswoman Janice Okubo referred the question to Donalyn DelaCruz in the office of Gov. Neil Abercrombie. DelaCruz did not respond to a WND request.

WND also requested comment from the White House but did not receive a response.

Two retired police officers in Honolulu, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, also told WND they believe the White House document is a forgery, and they are trying to identify who created it.

Irei said he discounted the worth of the copy of the Queens document he obtained, as he thought the "money" would be in documenting a Kenyan birth.

He said he became convinced that Obama was not born in Hawaii because he believed the online "Certification of Live Birth" posted by the Obama campaign was faked, and he could not understand Obama's vehement refusal to allow his records to be released.

If there was documentation of a Hawaii birth, he reasoned, Obama would have no reason to conceal information and would have authorized the release of his records.

He said he and a partner began searching for evidence that Obama might have been born in Kenya. They approached the state employees, asking for help.

Irei said the initial documentation he obtained from the Department of Health employee was the birth certificate indicating Obama was born at Queens. The doctor was listed as John Ohtani, whom Irei remembered as the doctor who also had delivered his own son, Chad, in 1980.

WND confirmed that Ohtani practiced at Queens during the years in questions. He has since died.

Irei said he kept the copy of the Queens document on file until about two months ago when his office was being repainted. The folder holding the birth certificate was among some 20 boxes of old records that were destroyed in the cleanup.

"I thought the money would be in proving Obama was born in Kenya," he said.

"I wish I knew what I had, and I wish I kept it. We thought because the birth certificate we had was fake, it wasn't worth any money. I wish we knew what we had," he said.

"Whoever forged these birth certificates wanted to cover all angles," he said. "Even making a birth certificate that showed Obama was born in Kenya that was an obvious forgery. The grandmother's name was forged."

Irei said the question still remains, "Where was Obama born and who has his real birth certificate?"

The authenticity of the image released by the White House has also been challenged by numerous document specialists.

Moreover, there remains a long list of other unanswered questions. Former Health Department chief Chiyome Fukino, according to NBC News reporter Michael Isikoff, said she had seen the original birth certificate prior to Obama's public document release and that it was "half typed and half handwritten," a statement that clearly conflicts with what the president actually released, which was typewritten.

Nevertheless, the White House has expressed confidence the document it released would answer all of the questions about Obama's presidential eligibility. But those who contend the country's founders meant to exclude dual citizens from the presidency say the document actually proves Obama's ineligibility, since it lists Barack Obama Sr. as the father, but he never was a U.S. citizen.

The president himself even affirmed parental citizenship was a constitutional issue when he co-sponsored a resolution to address Sen. John McCain's presidential eligibility that implied a "natural born Citizen" must be born of "American citizen" parents.

Hawaii says it has Obama's original long-form birth certificate in a bound volume in a secure vault. Department of Health spokeswoman Okubo explained to WND that the original was copied onto "safety paper," and copies were sent to the president.

The White House then posted at image of the copy on this website and made copies to hand out to the press corps.

The document was analyzed by Ivan Zatkovich of Tampa-based eComp Consultants, which consults on intellectual property for telecommunications, web publishing and ecommerce and has provided services for corporations such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton-Mifflin, Citicorp and Amazon.com. Zatkovich has 28 years experience in computer science and document management. For more than 10 years he has been an expert witness in federal court in both criminal and civil litigation.

He contended that the multiple layers of the PDF document are anomalous.

"When a paper document is scanned on a scanner and saved as a PDF file it normally contains only a single layer of graphical information. The PDF that appears on the White House website however, contains multiple layers of graphic information. Multiple layers usually appear in a document like this when it is being edited or modified in some fashion," his report said.

"It is possible to take a single layer PDF and inadvertently create multiple layers, without changing the image in any fashion. But that does not appear to be the case here. The multiple layers in the PDF document are a result of changes made to the image."

Zatkovich told WND that the White House image "has specific content extracted from that base layer and enhanced."

He said, "This was done through an explicit operation to edit and/or enhance the printing in the document. There is no ambiguity here. There was an explicit action by a person to modify the document. … Mostly like to enhance the legibility, but still an explicit action none the less."

He explained the analysis he did was similar to the analysis that routinely is done on evidentiary documents for cell phones and computers in cases involving child porn, fraud and murder cases.

"The content clearly indicates that the document was knowingly and explicitly edited and modified before it was placed on the web," he said.

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A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY

Obama birth certificate linked to 'Kenya forgery'?

Marks on White House image align with document claiming African birth

Posted: May 08, 2011
5:41 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
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Editor's note: Jerome Corsi's "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President" is available today for immediate shipping, autographed by the author, exclusively by the WND Superstore.

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Could it be that the document released by the White House as President Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth" from the state of Hawaii is linked with a well-known forgery that states Obama was born in Kenya and his Hawaiian birth was registered by his grandmother?

An analysis posted on Facebook by GoodTryBarry shows that markings on the Kenya document appear to be the same as markings on the White House release.

The image below, for example, shows a "2" penciled in on the green White House document on the left, just below the word "Plantation." The same marking appears in nearly the same location on the Kenya document on the right.

The difference in backgrounds was explained earlier by Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo, who said safety paper was used to make the copy of the original birth certificate requested by Obama. The original documents in state records apparently do not have the background that appears on the copy.



Similarly, on the Kenya document, there is a mark that the birth was reported by "Other," meaning not a parent. On the White House document is a series of scribblings that appear to be centered on the reference to an "M.D." reporting the birth. But they also would cover any X's that might be in the "Other" category.

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And for the race of father, an undetermined marking appears on the Kenya document in the same place where there is a "9" on the White House document. There also is a fuzzy remnant on the White House document in the corresponding place on the Kenya document where the father's race is stated as "Negro-African":



The much-discussed X's that are above the boxes to mark a "Twin" or "Triplet" birth on the White House image also are in evidence on the Kenya document.



The White House released its document April 27 as "proof positive" that Obama was born in Hawaii in an announcement accompanied by a rare presidential statement on the issue:



Image released by the White House April 27, 2011

The Kenya document was published March 18, 2010, on a website called the Aloha Reporter. It accompanies a story about how the state's House Judiciary Committee was considering a plan to allow government officials to ignore requests for state records regarding Obama. There is no explanation of the image, which can be seen here:



A closeup of the document is here:



Among other things, the "Certificate of Live Birth" on the Reporter page says, "Birthplace: Kenya; Registered Honolulu HRS 338-17.8 per Grandmother."

The purported signature by Obama's grandmother misspells her name, and it lists the race for the father "Barack Hussein Obama Sr." as "Negro-African."

Honolulu private investigator Takeyuki Irei and two retired police officers in the city who asked not to be named have told WND the White House document appears to be a forgery, and they are trying to identify who created it.

A WND request to Department of Health spokeswoman Okubo on whether the White House image is an accurate representation of what the state has in its files was forwarded to the office of Gov. Neil Abercrombie, whose spokeswoman declined to respond.

A WND staff analysis concluded some of the markings also appear on the birth documents released earlier by the Nordyke twins, born at Kapiolani one day after Obama's reported birth at the same hospital.

One suggestion is that when Hawaii moved to computerized records, a worker performing the data entry made similar markings on all original birth documents.

Other explanations also are possible, including that either of the documents could have been copied from the other or even based on a third document.

But it appears unlikely a random computer operator could have created the documents without inside information, because the chance of guessing the placement of the markings appears low.

John Bultrim, a tech services expert and analyst, noted several other anomalies:

* The Obama documents both contain typing with irregularly aligned text. Consistent left alignment appears in only three lines of the White House document and no lines of the Aloha Reporter document. If typed, this lack of alignment would suggest a mostly random carriage-return repositioning. On both Nordyke certificates, the same six primary lines are left-aligned, as if tabbed back each time to the typewriter's carriage-return stop, and all other lines contain significant consistent inward tabbing.
* In the Obama documents, the repositioning in boxes 10, 13 and 15 is identical, in the midst of otherwise apparent random alignment. Box 13's "Stanley" is exactly one character to the left of the other two entries.
* In the Nordyke documents, the capital letters have a constant slightly higher baseline than the lowercase letters, consistent with a slightly weakened shifting mechanism on a well-used '60s typewriter. In both Obama documents all characters have the same baseline, consistent with a newer typewriter.
* The Obama documents both contain type misalignments not present in the Nordyke certificates. In the Kenya Obama document, for example, "Student" in box 12b is more than half a character right of "Negro," and "Caucasian," below it, is almost a full character right of "Student." This is consistent with typing on a loose paper freely repositioned after every entry. Unexplained vertical misalignments such as "Barack II" and "Honolulu 1" are also prevalent. In the Obama document released by the White House, the "X" in box 3 is at least half a character right of "BARACK," and the "K" in "Kansas" is vertically misaligned and misstruck. In the Nordyke certificates, all text is granularly positioned, absent of vertical misstrikes or irrational horizontal character alignments.

WND reported earlier when a computer document expert who analyzed the online image of Barack Obama's purported Certificate of Live Birth for WND confirmed there are anomalies inconsistent with a simple scanning process, and there is evidence it has been manipulated, but there's no way to determine exactly what may have been modified.

The White House declined to comment.

While the White House was expressing confidence the document would answer all of the questions about his presidential eligibility, those who contend the country's founders excluded dual citizens from qualifying as a "natural born Citizen," as the Constitution requires, say the document actually proves Obama's ineligibility.

Barack Obama Sr. was listed as the father, but he never was a U.S. citizen.

The president himself even seemed to acknowledge the relevance of parental citizenship when he co-sponsored a resolution to address Sen. John McCain's presidential eligibility that implied a "natural born Citizen" must be born to "American citizen" parents.

Hawaii officials say they have Obama's original birth certificate and made copies for the president. One of the copies then was scanned and posted on the White House website.

The image posted online was analyzed by Ivan Zatkovich of Tampa-based eComp Consultants, which consults on intellectual property for telecommunications, Web publishing and ecommerce and has provided services for corporations such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton-Mifflin, Citicorp and Amazon.com. Zatkovich has 28 years experience in computer science and document management. For more than 10 years, he has provided expert testimony in federal court in both criminal and civil litigation.

He concluded that the multiple layers of the PDF document are anomalous.

"When a paper document is scanned on a scanner and saved as a PDF file it normally contains only a single layer of graphical information. The PDF that appears on the White House website however, contains multiple layers of graphic information. Multiple layers usually appear in a document like this when it is being edited or modified in some fashion," he said.

"It is possible to take a single layer PDF and inadvertently create multiple layers, without changing the image in any fashion. But that does not appear to be the case here. The multiple layers in the PDF document are a result of changes made to the image," his report said. Operations that were done to the image cannot be determined at this point."

Among the various items that were separated into different layers include the main text, the mother's occupation, the dates accepted, the stamp and signature of the state registrar and the time stamp of the state registrar:



The document is broken into layers.

The background layer – with all of the additional layers removed – has only random portions of signatures and a white outline in places where the text appears on other layers:



The background, without layers of information added on top

The main layer of text shows most of the wording on the document, with exceptions such as the first part of Stanley Ann Dunham Obama's signature.



The layer with the main parts of the text

In field 17a, under "Type of Occupation Outside Home During Pregnancy," the typed answer "None" is separated into two layers, with "Non" in one layer and "e" in another. Box 20, indicating the date the document was accepted, shows a similar separation of words.



Unusual division of characters of information on different layers

The report said there are two groups of overlays, the first including the main page of text and another including the mother's occupation. The second group includes the stamps of the local registrar, the registrar general, the state registrar and the time stamp of the state registrar.

"All of the overlays were of a higher resolution than the background layer," the report said. "This suggests that the overlays [were] created to enhance that content (i.e. make the text darker and/or the edges sharper). The only two plausible explanations for this pattern of layers is: 1. Someone was changing the content of both the text and the stamps. 2. Someone was systematically enhancing the black text layers for legibility, and then enhancing the stamp overlays separately for legibility."

Zatkovich told WND that the White House image "has specific content extracted from that base layer and enhanced."

He said, "This was done through an explicit operation to edit and/or enhance the printing in the document. There is no ambiguity here. There was an explicit action by a person to modify the document. … Mostly like to enhance the legibility, but still an explicit action none the less."

He explained the analysis he did was similar to the analysis that routinely is done on evidentiary documents for cell phones and computers in cases involving child porn, fraud and murder cases.

"The content clearly indicates that the document was knowingly and explicitly edited and modified before it was placed on the Web," he said.

Note: Media interested in interviewing Jerome Corsi beginning next Tuesday when his book is officially released should email media@wnd.com.

WND Editor Joseph Farah is available to discuss today's breaking stories on eligibility. Contact media@wnd.com.

With research by John J. Bulten

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Web expert: Obama certificate falls short in authenticity
Cites images sharing space, anomalous for typed pages http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=295189

Scrubbed again! Obama's hospital doctor changed
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