Moderated Obama birth certificate CT / SSN CT / Birther discussion

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The Experts

Based on what AntPogo and Jay Utah have been posting, one might think that the only image expert put forth by birthers is Mara Zebest who has been referred to since she is Sherff Joe's prime expert. But that is not the case. In fact there are many other highly qualified exerts that come to the same conclusion of Fraud in the COLB document and state their reasons which are essentially consistent with the analysis of Mara Zebest:


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OBAMA ~ THE EVIDENCE VAULT
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OBAMA'S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE.


http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com/


OBAMA'S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ~ THE EVIDENCE

Joseph M. Newcomer,


who exposed the "Killian documents" as fraudulent in 2004, has said that the Obama birth certificate released by the White House on April 27 of 2011 is a "highly suspicious" document that deserves professional forensic examination.

"There are artifacts in the birth certificate document that are strongly suggestive of a forgery. The document screams out that something is wrong." After explaining the problems, Newcomber concluded, "If I saw these differences in a document I was examining, it would scream out at me that the document was a 'cut-and-paste' fraud."

Newcomber was instrumental in providing expert analysis on the “Bush National Guard document scandal” in which documents were fabricated – faked – to try to bring down the Bush presidency. Result? The producer of the segment was fired from CBS News and long-running anchor Dan Rather, a hard-core activist democrat, who ran with the story, according to the CEO of CBS


NEWCOMER'S CONCLUSION: OBAMA'S LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A FAKE.[/I
]


EXPERT ~ PAUL IREY


Retired, 50-year typesetting expert veteran Paul Irey, who started and owned Bergan Graphics in Fort Lee, N.J., which at its height had 60 employees working three round-the-clock shifts and had prestige clients that included Montgomery Ward and Acme Markets, has identified DIFFERENT TYPE STYLES in the same words on the document, a smoking gun of evidence.


"My analysis proves beyond a doubt that it would be impossible for the different letters that appear in the Obama birth certificate to have been typed by one typewriter," Irey told World Net Daily.

"Typewriters in 1961 could not change the size and shape of a letter on the fly like that," he said. "This document is definitely a forgery."


Scanner-expert Doug Vogt,

an international expert on scanners and document-imaging software, and who has owned Archive Index Systems Inc. - since 1993, in Bellevue, Wash., a company that sells a wide variety of document scanners worldwide and develops document imaging software – and who before that owned Nova Typesetting for 11 years, has filed a criminal charge with the FBI, charging that the long-form birth certificate released by the White House is criminally fraudulent.

“…this form is a created forgery."


Vogt produced a long and compelling graphic analysis that lays to waste the believability of the Obama long form birth certificate. It can be read in total here http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=305705


EXPERT ~ GARY POYSSICK

Gary Poyssick has been involved in the creation and development of Adobe graphics software since the beginning. Adobe – with Poyssick’s help - created “Photoshop”, a program so extensively used that the term photoshop has come into the lexicon of common language for digital manipulation such as the brand “Xerox” for decades was used generically to reference photocopying.

Conclusion

The document is a forgery. It was created from some number – more than one – original birth certificates from Hawaii. In an attempt to hide the fact that it was digitally created, old letters from a typed document were found and placed on top of the original scanned document.

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EXPERT ~ Ivan Zatkovich

Ivan Zatkovich has 28 years experience in computer science and document management and for more than 10 years has been an expert witness providing testimony in federal court in both criminal and civil litigation. His company, 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 says there are serious problems with the birth certificate.
"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.
"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'S CONCLUSION: "The content clearly indicates that the document was knowingly and explicitly edited and modified before it was placed on the web."


EXPERT ~ MARA ZEBEST

Mara Zebest has co-authored several hard-cover books on Photoshop that sit on the shelves of every legitimate graphics studio in the English-speaking world, edited almost 100 more and is a graphics trainer and consultant for Fortune-500 companies. Zebest, a lifelong democrat who should be protecting Obama is political ideology was her motivation, is more direct than Newcomer. Zebest calls Obama's birth certificate a "pathetic, amateurish fake".

So much for the "Expert" Pooh-Poohers on this board. Now comes the fusillade of ad hominems -- the Pooh-poohers attempt to destroy their credibility.
 
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Dear Mr. Prey:

Don't you think you should first answer questions others have put to you before asking questions of your own?

(Please do not answer that question, by the way.)

Your best pal,

RK

If it's a serious meritorious question that is not off topic, . as always. But only one at a time, please.
 
It does no such thing.

The above is an even more ridiculous claim by Zebest in a failed (again) effort to cover for her earlier screwups about the existence of a paper original for Obama's birth certificate.

I just knew you guys had to come up with some cacamammy explanation. But it sure looks like HUwaii to me.
 

Joseph M. Newcomer,


[...]


NEWCOMER'S CONCLUSION: OBAMA'S LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A FAKE.[/I
]

No, it's not.

http://www.wnd.com/2011/06/314297/#ixzz1U0DZ0AE5

Newcomer stressed that he was relying on published charges that the Obama birth certificate was fraudulent, including the analysis by scanner expert Doug Vogt and by typography expert Paul Irey.

[...]

Newcomer told WND that health issues would not permit him to undertake the type of rigorous analysis of the Obama birth certificate that he attempted in 2004 with the Killian documents.

Newcomer did not investigate the PDF himself, and certainly didn't investigate it like he investigated the Killian documents. Instead, he relied on what other birther non-experts said about it.


EXPERT ~ PAUL IREY

Irey may be experienced with typefaces, but he's certainly no forensic document examiner. In addition, after John Woodman's book pointed out the very many gaping holes in his "analysis", Irey backtracked, saying:

In addition Orly Taitz and Jerome Corsi were both informed of my feeling that part of the "different typeface" evidence may be flawed as a result of my understanding of Woodman's findings ... prior to your call. Some of it is still correct ... but I informed them that I had lost complete confidence in the evidence and would not support it if required to testify.

As we see here, that hasn't stopped birthers from repeating the debunked information.

Scanner-expert Doug Vogt,

Vogt is not a scanner "expert", but a scanner salesman. And a crackpot of the first order, who has written rambling books about multidimensional pyramid power and how global warming is a sign of how the sun will go nova and cause an ice age on Earth which will be God's judgment, and whose bizarre claims include:

He has funded and directed three expeditions to the Sinai desert where he was the first person since Baruch (Jeremiah’s grandson) to discover the real Mount Sinai. He discovered all the altars that Moses describes in the Torah. In addition he was the first person since Moses to see the real Abraham’s altar also located at Mount Sinai and not in Jerusalem. He has discovered the code systems used by Moses when writing the surface story of the Torah, which enabled him to decode the Torah and other earlier books of the Hebrew Scriptures.

and

Mr. vogt [sic] came to this conclusion after discovering the exact number of years between geomagnetic reversals (polar reversals) was secretly imbedded in all the dimensions values given in the Torah, using a simple multiplication formula (chapter 2). The paramount reason the author was able to discover what nobody before him was able to was because of an information theory of existence that unlocked everything including the correct model that created the original Hebrew Alphabet. He developed this philosophy in 1977 and it will eventually have a profound effect on all the fields of science.

Quite the polymath, Mr. Vogt is. Able to figure out that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery and unlock the secrets of the universe encoded in the Hebrew Alphabet.

EXPERT ~ GARY POYSSICK

Gary Poyssick has been involved in the creation and development of Adobe graphics software since the beginning. Adobe – with Poyssick’s help - created “Photoshop”, a program so extensively used that the term photoshop has come into the lexicon of common language for digital manipulation such as the brand “Xerox” for decades was used generically to reference photocopying.

Poyssick has no experience or expertise with Acrobat (or any other PDF software). Poyssick has also exaggerated his relationship with Adobe - when WND first posted an article about his "analysis" (copied here at WND's sister site Western Journalism, he was described as an "Adobe engineer", "an early employee of software giant Adobe System Inc", and that "Poyssick was at the San Jose-based tech company when it counted no more than 14 employees".

When this was discovered to be less than true, WND surreptitiously edited their copy of the article to say only that he was an "Adobe Expert" who "had a working relationship with the San Jose-based tech company when it counted no more than 14 employees, and he continues to advise and write on Adobe software products."

EXPERT ~ Ivan Zatkovich

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ZATKOVICH'S CONCLUSION: "The content clearly indicates that the document was knowingly and explicitly edited and modified before it was placed on the web."[/I]

This one is my favorite, because unlike everyone else in this list, Zatkovich is indeed a forensic document expert. WND commissioned an analysis from him, and while they mentioned brief quotes from Zatkovich in an article, they then strangely decided not to actually publish it (and birther sites, like the one Robert Prey cut and pasted this list from, only quote selectively from it).

Why's that? Well, because if you read Zatkovich's full report (which he made available himself from his company's website), you'll see he doesn't believe the PDF is a forgery at all, and Zatkovich himself said when providing the report to a requester, "Here is a copy of the full Obama birth certificate report which I submitted to World Net Daily. I believe it is fairly objective, and don’t believe WND’s excerpt was quite accurate."

Here's what he actually said about the PDF:

Conclusion

The following is a summary of my analysis:

1. The Hawaii Department of Health stated that they have a record of the birth certificate of Barak [sic] Obama.

2. A certificate was produced by the State of Hawaii and copied onto green safety paper, as per normal procedure.

3. The ‘Green copy’ was then scanned, presumably by the White House, to produce a PDF document.

4. The PDF document was then modified in some fashion (e.g. layers, white halo).

All of the modifications to the PDF document that can be identified are consistent with someone enhancing the legibility of the document.

Note how he also debunks the assertion that there was no original paper copy, too.

EXPERT ~ MARA ZEBEST

Zebest's failures have already been thoroughly described.

So, to sum up, only one person in the above list is an expert at all (much less a credible expert), and that one actual expert doesn't think the PDF of Obama's birth certificate is a forgery!
 
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I just knew you guys had to come up with some cacamammy explanation.

Pointing out that the people who argue for a misspelling are looking at rasterized text at a useless resolution is not a "cacamammy" [sic, cf. "cockamamie"] explanation. It is, in fact, the right answer and has been backed up by additional information and better-resolution images. You appear unable to handle this rebuttal, so you're lashing out emotionally.

But it sure looks like HUwaii to me.

What evidentiary value do you think your opinion has?
 
If it's a serious meritorious question that is not off topic, . as always. But only one at a time, please.

No, the forum has no such rule. Nor can you justify asking that as a courtesy when you ignore pending questions in any amount or order in favor of opening new topics. I have several questions pending for you. Please choose one or more of them and provide an answer.
 
Sorry Ranb, but I make it a point to answer a point so long as the poster has a point. I don't go running down some poster's suggested bunny trail without the poster first stating what his point is. So, do you have a point?????

Yes, my point was that it is easy to understand this stuff when you take a little time to read the statutes. See how easy that was?

"Vital Records"???? But that could be a Declaration of Birth and not a Birth Certificate. Whatever she claims, it strains credulity why such records could not even be viewed by the Governor.

The Governor cannot view those records becasue he is not entitled to do so by law:

Revised Statutes of Hawaii, Chapter 92F

And since you're unlikely to actually read the complete statute:

"§92F-19 Limitations on disclosure of government records to other agencies. (a) No agency may disclose or authorize disclosure of government records to any other agency unless the disclosure is:

(1) Necessary for the performance of the requesting agency's duties and functions and is also:

Funny how suddenly those rules suddenly didn't apply when the Whitehouse released 4 alleged certified copies.

Border Reiver was referring to releasing documents to other agencies, not releasing them to people who are allowed to possess them. It seems he was right in sugggesting that you could not be bothered to read the statute. I showed you the way and you claimed it was a rabbit path. Living in denial has to be rough at times isn't it?

Just in case you missed it, my point is "see how easy that was?". It was a yes or no question.

Ranb
 
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Based on what AntPogo and Jay Utah have been posting, one might think that the only image expert put forth by birthers is Mara Zebest...

No. You introduced Mara Zebest as an image analysis expert and have for the past several pages relied solely upon her testimony. The emphasis up until now is yours, and we have simply responded accordingly. To rebut other image analysis evidence when you are speaking of Zebest would be a straw-man fallacy.

You have now mentioned other alleged experts only when it became apparent you could not qualify Zebest against the criticism here. You're changing horses.

In fact there are many other highly qualified exerts...

You include Zebest on the list without addressing any of the comments made here regarding her alleged expertise, so it's clear you're padding the list and haven't really researched any of these people you produce as experts. If you're going to rely on expert testimony, please be so kind as to investigate how it works.

I have asked you multiple times in multiple threads if you are willing to qualify your alleged experts, and you steadfastly refuse. At this point I'll defer to ANTPogo's analysis. Please address his comments.

...which are essentially consistent with the analysis of Mara Zebest

That some number of people agree with Zebest is irrelevant. Her analysis is incompetent on its face.
 
You include Zebest on the list without addressing any of the comments made here regarding her alleged expertise, so it's clear you're padding the list and haven't really researched any of these people you produce as experts.

It's not even his list. He cut and pasted it wholesale from the site listed in his post: evidencevault.blogspot.com.

That's why I was able to debunk it so quickly...it's been floating around the net for over a year now.
 
It's not even his list. He cut and pasted it wholesale from the site listed in his post: evidencevault.blogspot.com.

Sadly cut-and-pasted witness lists seem to haunt us regularly at JREF. This is why I stress voir dire. Conspiracism is rife with self-proclaimed experts.

That's why I was able to debunk it so quickly...it's been floating around the net for over a year now.

All of Robert's arguments are old and long-debunked. That's why we persuade him to read the thread. And yes, Irey said he would no longer testify in Birther lawsuits, and he hasn't. This has led to the need to withdraw his evidence from a few pending suits -- as with Zebest in the trial aforementioned, he refuses to submit to voir dire and so does not qualify as an expert.
 
If it's a serious meritorious question that is not off topic, . as always. But only one at a time, please.

Not even then, apparently.

Not even if I'm just confirming his own claims.

I conclude not interested in listening, only interested in talking.
 
Please be more specific.

I believe Robert is referring to the idea that the PDF was generated from whole cloth as an image created in Photoshop and merely transferred to PDF format. An idea that is absurd on its face, as the fact that there are extant paper copies of the document which are identical in content suggests a much simpler explanation, a la Occam's Razor.
 
I believe Robert is referring to the idea that the PDF was generated from whole cloth as an image created in Photoshop and merely transferred to PDF format. An idea that is absurd on its face, as the fact that there are extant paper copies of the document which are identical in content suggests a much simpler explanation, a la Occam's Razor.


Maybe someone can help me understand. I know one can use Photoshop to make something that looks like an official document. And I know one might use layers to do so (e.g. one layer for text, another for the security background) but aren't some of the layers that the birthers refer to neither text, layout, signatures, nor background? What would be the purpose of creating a layer with some random pixels on it. How would adding several of these layers make the document look more genuine?

Follow up question. Why would Barack "The Demon" Obama employ the most incompetent forger in the U.S.?
 
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Maybe someone can help me understand. I know one can use Photoshop to make something that looks like an official document. And I know one might use layers to do so (e.g. one layer for text, another for the security background) but aren't some of the layers that the birthers refer to neither text, layout, signatures, nor background? What would be the purpose of creating a layer with some random pixels on it. How would adding several of these layers make the document look more genuine?

It would only make sense if they were trying to intentionally make it look like the byproduct of an automated conversion process. It would make the forger diabolically clever.

Of course to accept that you'd also have to accept that automatic conversion processes can produce those sorts of effects. I'm sure birthers are capable of believing the former while denying the later.
 
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