Our investigation of the purported Obama birth
certificate released by Hawaiian authorities today reveals the document is a shoddily contrived hoax. Infowars.com computer
specialists dismissed the document as a fraud soon after examining it.
Upon first inspection, the document appears to be a photocopy taken from state records and printed on official green
paper. However, when the government released PDF is taken into the image editing program Adobe Illustrator, we discover a
number of separate elements that reveal the document is not a single scan on paper, as one might surmise. Elements are place
in layers or editing boxes over the scan and green textured paper, which is to say the least unusual.
When sections
of the document are enlarged significantly, we discover glaring inconsistencies. For instance, it appears the date stamped
on the document has been altered. Moreover, the document contains text, numbers, and lines with suspicious white borders indicating
these items were pasted from the original scan and dropped over a background image of green paper.
Let’s assume the state of Hawaii scanned the original document and placed it on the green textured background. This
does not explain the broken out or separate elements. There is no logical reason for this to be done unless the government
planned to modify the document and make it appear to be something other than it is.
There are two elements of interest,
as shown in the image to the above – both entries for the date accepted by the local registry. This appears to have
been modified in an image editing program.
The media was quick to dispel the fact the document was modified. “Our
analysis of the latest controversy: The original birth certificate was probably in a ‘negative’ form, and someone
at the White House took it upon themselves to doctor it up so the form can be readable,” writesJoe Brooks for Wireupdate.
Nathan Goulding, writing for the National Review, tells us anybody can open the White House released PDF in Illustrator and it will break
out into layers. “I’ve confirmed that scanning an image, converting it to a PDF, optimizing that PDF, and then
opening it up in Illustrator, does in fact create layers similar to what is seen in the birth certificate PDF. You can try
it yourself at home,” he writes.
Indeed, but this does not answer the question why in the Obama birth certificate
PDF the layers or elements contain dates – which appear to be modified – and the signature of the state registrar.
If the document was acquired from state records in whole, why was in necessary to add elements? Goulding and Brooks do not
address this issue.
These layers are also revealed by the White House issued PDF’s hex file in freeware hex editor. Within its code are listed 8 image masks, which if changed from value “true” to “false” turn off
and on to reveal the layers as demonstrated in the video and in Illustrator. Whether these represent compression artifacts
or other digitizing processes, or whether these masks represent deliberate manipulation remains to be conclusively shown.
