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MSM , THE WASHINGTON TIMES is covering this , LOL !
Moonies out for revenge, they do nothing like this without CIA/Bush A O K !
Sheriff Arpaio: Obama birth certificate a ‘forgery’
The Washington Times
Updated:
4:05 p.m. on Thursday, March 1, 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...orgery/?page=1
PHOENIX —
Maricopa County
Sheriff
Joe Arpaio
said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President
Obama
released last year is a “computer-generated forgery” — and also raised questions about the authenticity of the president’s
Selective Service
card.
“Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated, I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic,” Sheriff
Arpaio
said. “My investigators believe that the long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in paper format as claimed by the
White House
.”
Questions over
Mr. Obama
’s birth certificate have been a political sideshow for the last four years, and have persisted despite repeated denials by the
White House
, and despite the release of evidence he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961. That evidence included both a certificate of live birth released during the 2008 campaign and the long-form certificate last year.
Fact-check organizations have concluded the certificates are authentic, and
Mr. Obama
has joked about those who questioned his birth. At last year’s
White House
Correspondents Association Dinner, soon after releasing his long-form certificate, he mocked
Donald Trump
, who had said his own investigators were looking into the matter.
Now Sheriff Arpaio
, who first built his national profile by creating tent cities for jail inmates and later by taking a tough stance on illegal immigration, could reignite questions among those who continue to believe
Mr. Obama
was born outside the U.S., and therefore is ineligible to be president under the Constitution’s provision that the officeholder be a natural-born citizen.
Sheriff
Arpaio
said at least two crimes could have been committed in his view through the forgery. He repeatedly said he is not questioning whether
Mr. Obama
was born in the U.S., but instead is challenging the authenticity of the documents themselves.
He released a 10-page report detailing what his investigators said were “inconsistencies” in the text characters of the birth certificate image the
White House
released, and also questioned details of the computer file itself.
Some of those claims had earlier been raised on the Internet as well, and both the
White House
and independent fact-checkers have dismissed those questions, saying the computer file is consistent with the version of events the
White House
has detailed.
The
White House
did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It released the long-form certificate last year after repeated questions were raised by conservative activists and conspiracy-theory websites questioning the authenticity of the short-form certificate
Mr. Obama
released during the 2008 campaign.
The Justice Department has accused Sheriff
Arpaio
of civil rights abuses
within his department, but he said he began his investigation before that — in August 2011, after tea party members from Surprise, Ariz., a town within
Maricopa County
, signed a petition challenging the certificate.
Sheriff
Arpaio
detailed former law enforcement officers who constitute what he called his “cold case posse” to do the investigation. He said no taxpayer dollars were spent.
He was joined in his press conference by Jerome Corsi,
an author who has been critical of
Mr. Obama
. He was also one of those who took a critical look at Sen. John Kerry’s military service during his 2004 presidential bid.
Mr. Corsi made headlines when he traveled to Kenya, saying he wanted to track down where he thought
Mr. Obama
was really born.
Sheriff
Arpaio
said he went into the investigation with an open mind, and would have been happy to clear
Mr. Obama
.
His investigators said the computer file released by the
White House
appears to have been created on a computer, rather than having been originally made on paper and then scanned.
The investigators said they have identified “a person of interest” in the birth certificate.
[ documents produced on computer have hidden identifiers, and you may be able to
identify the person using various means, searching for other documents online produced
by same computer, program, etc, adobe and msft have many hidden identifiers ]
Sheriff
Arpaio
’s chief investigator on the project said there are so many questions that he couldn’t have cleared
Mr. Obama
to be an employee of
Maricopa County
.
Pursuing questions over the birth certificate has been a thorny issue for the GOP. State lawmakers in several places, including Arizona, have pursued laws that would have imposed checks on any presidential candidate’s qualifications to get on their state ballots.
One such proposal in Arizona, which became known as the “birther” bill, was vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer last year.
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