And nothing happened after the March announcement. The Cold Case Posse did not even say who the person was who did it.
Also, the story is a difficult one to confirm. After all, the alleged forger would not only have to have forged Obama's birth certificate way back in 2007 (when Obama was just a junior senator) but also inserted the forged document into the DOH files in Hawaii.
That is because Obama received his short form BC from Hawaii in 2007 (he published it in 2008), and short-form BCs are done by a clerk looking into the DOH files and checking whether or not there was a BC in them, and reading off the facts on the BC---including the place of birth listing, which was Honolulu---and entering that on the computer form that generated the BC.
So, for that to have happened (and the Republican officials in Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed that it happened), there had to be a BC in the Hawaii DOH birth certificate files when Obama asked for his copy---way back in 2007---and it had to say that the place of birth was Honolulu.
But that is not all. The forger (or another forger) would also have had to have forged the microfilms of the Hawaii newspapers in two different libraries, both of which show the birth notices in the Hawaii newspapers. Those birth notices are proof that a birth certificate was issued to Obama in 1961. So there was a Hawaii birth certificate (unless the microfilm records are also forged). And, the fact that there was a Hawaii birth certificate issued in 1961 means that Hawaii must have been born in Hawaii because in 1961 the law did not allow the DOH to issue a Hawaii BC to children born outside of Hawaii.
So, the alleged forgery would have been extremely difficult. The forger would have had to have forged the document and slipped it into the files in 2007 and then also forge the microfilms of the birth notices. Not easy to do all that.
All of which would, of course, only be useful if Obama were born in a foreign country. But, guess what, we do not even know that Obama's mother had a passport in 1961---and very very few 18-year-olds did have passports in 1961. (An even lower percentage of women in late pregnancy traveled abroad in 1961 due to the risk of stillbirth.)
Oh, and Obama's Kenyan grandmother DID NOT say that Obama was born in Kenya. A birther site made that all up. She said repeatedly after being asked "Where was he born?" that he was born in Hawaii: "Hawaii, where his father was studying at the time"---but birther sites simply cut off the tape just before she ws asked the question.)
It should be very interesting to see how Sheriff Joe explains how the BC could have been forged in 2007 and slipped into the DOH files and how the microfilms were forged as well.
Oh, and there another problem with your story. The issue of the Globe that you show is more than a year old. It ran in late June 2012, and the news conference that was scheduled was scheduled for July 17, 2012---and Sheriff Joe did not release the name of the alleged forger, much less explain how she or he could have forged the BC and inserted it into the Hawaii DOH files in 2007.
The trouble is that Sheriff Joe announced that he had found the "person who had forged Obama's birth certificate" before---way back in early March.
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And nothing happened after the March announcement. The Cold Case Posse did not even say who the person was who did it.
Also, the story is a difficult one to confirm. After all, the alleged forger would not only have to have forged Obama's birth certificate way back in 2007 (when Obama was just a junior senator) but also inserted the forged document into the DOH files in Hawaii.
That is because Obama received his short form BC from Hawaii in 2007 (he published it in 2008), and short-form BCs are done by a clerk looking into the DOH files and checking whether or not there was a BC in them, and reading off the facts on the BC---including the place of birth listing, which was Honolulu---and entering that on the computer form that generated the BC.
So, for that to have happened (and the Republican officials in Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed that it happened), there had to be a BC in the Hawaii DOH birth certificate files when Obama asked for his copy---way back in 2007---and it had to say that the place of birth was Honolulu.
But that is not all. The forger (or another forger) would also have had to have forged the microfilms of the Hawaii newspapers in two different libraries, both of which show the birth notices in the Hawaii newspapers. Those birth notices are proof that a birth certificate was issued to Obama in 1961. So there was a Hawaii birth certificate (unless the microfilm records are also forged). And, the fact that there was a Hawaii birth certificate issued in 1961 means that Hawaii must have been born in Hawaii because in 1961 the law did not allow the DOH to issue a Hawaii BC to children born outside of Hawaii.
So, the alleged forgery would have been extremely difficult. The forger would have had to have forged the document and slipped it into the files in 2007 and then also forge the microfilms of the birth notices. Not easy to do all that.
All of which would, of course, only be useful if Obama were born in a foreign country. But, guess what, we do not even know that Obama's mother had a passport in 1961---and very very few 18-year-olds did have passports in 1961. (An even lower percentage of women in late pregnancy traveled abroad in 1961 due to the risk of stillbirth.)
Oh, and Obama's Kenyan grandmother DID NOT say that Obama was born in Kenya. A birther site made that all up. She said repeatedly after being asked "Where was he born?" that he was born in Hawaii: "Hawaii, where his father was studying at the time"---but birther sites simply cut off the tape just before she ws asked the question.)
It should be very interesting to see how Sheriff Joe explains how the BC could have been forged in 2007 and slipped into the DOH files and how the microfilms were forged as well.
Oh, and there another problem with your story. The issue of the Globe that you show is more than a year old. It ran in late June 2012, and the news conference that was scheduled was scheduled for July 17, 2012---and Sheriff Joe did not release the name of the alleged forger, much less explain how she or he could have forged the BC and inserted it into the Hawaii DOH files in 2007.
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