Update: Daily Kos, an Obama Activist, and Forged Birth Certificates

Introduction by TexasDarlin:

In this update to JimJ’s first story, the author concludes that the Certifications of Live Birth published on Obama’s FightTheSmears site and DailyKos are forgeries, and that both images originate from the blogger opendna’s forged template. JimJ’s theory is based on the discovery of a matching anomaly in all three documents.

Birth Certificate posts in the series are listed at the end. In particular, see my recent story, Birth Certificate Mystery Ongoing, in which I explored the issues raised in JimJ’s first post. — TD

How did an Obama Activist and self-identified documents expert for the Department of Homeland Security produce a mostly blank forged Certification of Live Birth of higher quality than a similar image posted at Daily Kos only hours after the alleged Obama Birth Certificate first appeared on June 12?

Why did Daily Kos remove a sub-thread with opendna’s infamous “Aphorgerie” Certification of Live Birth from the June 12 thread where Obama’s first appeared?

First, let’s look at the digital anomaly.

Barack Obama’s alleged Certifications of Live Birth found on Daily Kos and Barack Obama’s Fight the Smears website, and the forged Certification documents posted at Jay Mckinnin/opendna’s photobucket site are all derived from copies of the same image.

There is an anomaly found in images posted at each site that proves this. The identifying mark appears slightly to the left of the state seal at the top of the page at the same level as the S in State. It appears without enhancement as a gray dot that is darker than the surrounding area in the latest version of the Obama Birth Certificate now appearing on Daily Kos. And it appears even more clearly when enhanced:

VIEW the larger image here.

You can test this for yourself. Download a copy of one of the images like the one found at Daily Kos or opendna’s from photobucket:

Kos image

opendna image

Next, use the zoom feature in Photoshop (or your photo editing software) to enlarge the area mentioned above to around 300%, and then the Image>Adjust>Brightness/Contrast feature in Photoshop. Slide the contrast slider to the right to darken the image and the brightness slider slightly to the left and the anomaly becomes clear.

The anomaly is even visible in the extremely low-resolution image found on the Obama Campaign’s Fight the Smears website. It becomes visible there when you use a zoom magnification of 4-600% and adjust the contrast/brightness controls as outlined above, appearing as a square that is darker than the surrounding area.

CLOSE-UP:

WIDE-ANGLE I.D. of WEBSITE:

And for sake of clear documentation, here’s the same anomaly found in Jay Mckinnon/opendna’s images:

VIEW the larger image here.

The anomaly is significant because it amounts to a digital signature that clearly links and identifies the Daily Kos, Fight the Smears, and opendna images as copies of each other.

There is additional evidence linking the images. For example, try resizing the opendna file to the same size as either Daily Kos Certificate. Copy the opendna file, layer it on top of the Daily Kos file, and then reduce the opendna layer opacity by 50%. If you do so, you will find that the images in both layers including text and the many anomalies found in the background, line up perfectly.

There is much more that has been brought out by the many fine researchers who are looking into the obama birth certificate question. And all of the research raises the paramount question:

Who produced the original image of Obama’s Certification of Live Birth?

And this is where Obama activist, self-described former federal officer and documents expert Jay Mckinnon, aka opendna, enters the picture once again. While reexamining the images posted to his photobucket album, I discovered new information within them that raises serious questions concerning the origination of the Certifications of Live Birth and their relationship to Jay Mckinnon/opendna.

As mentioned above, opendna’s files display the same digital signature as the others in question. While re-examining his files, I made the startling discovery that the opendna image files appear to be of higher quality than those found at Daily Kos. I did so by comparing the image files found on both sites.

First, I opened the current version of the Daily Kos Obama Certification that appears when copied as an image size of 2427×2369 pixels. You may download that image here:

Kos Images.

Next I opened opendna’s blank Certification image that is posted with an image size of 800×781 pixels, here:

opendna album.

I next applied the “glowing edges” filters to both images and changed the opendna’s image size to the 2427×2369 pixel size found in the current image found on Daily Kos. I fully expected the opendna image to appear the same or worse than the image found at Daily Kos. Instead, the quality of the opendna Certification of Live Birth is of dramatically superior quality to the ones found at Daily Kos, even when saved at the lowest jpg internet setting.

I also tried expanding the original Daily Kos Birth Certificate that was posted on June 12 to the 2427×2369 image size and saved it as a low internet jpg setting. The results of the comparison were the same as with the current version. In both side-by-side comparisons, the expanded opendna image is of far superior quality to those posted on Daily Kos with many less distortions.

VIEW the larger image here.

That the opendna file is of superior quality to the ones found at Daily Kos and Fight the Smears raises some important issues. The copy found on Smears is of particularly low quality and could not possibly have been used as the source for opendna’s forgeries. Most computer graphics artists are aware of and struggle constantly with the fact that it is virtually impossible to create an image that is superior in quality to the original digital image. You cannot expand a low resolution image and create an increase in quality. Yet somehow, “DHS trained document expert” Jay Mckinnon acquired an image of a Certification of Live Birth that is clearly superior in quality to those found on Daily Kos and Obama’s Campaign website, yet shares an identical digital signature with both. How would that be possible?

Where did it come from? And it is extremely suspicious that Jay Mckinnon/opendna clearly went to great lengths to hide the identity of the source image in his image files. The blogger Polarik, in a comment on my previous No Quarter story revealed this information:

“….I can say, with 100% certainty, is that he (opendna) overwrote most of the JPG headers with a long series of the number “2″ in an obvious effort to hide the source image….”

How did Jay Mckinnon/opendna acquire or produce an image of a Hawaii Certification of Live Birth of higher quality than any of those posted on Daily Kos? How did Jay Mckinnon/opendna produce a high quality forgery of a mostly blank certification of live birth only hours after the item was posted on Daily Kos? Where did these files come from? Who created them? Why is Daily Kos continuing to post opendna’s forged blank birth certificate on their thread?

And, speaking of Daily Kos, why did they pull a sub-thread on the original June 12, 2008 Birth Certificate thread. The sub-thread featured Jay Mckinnon/opendna’s “Haye I.B. Aphorgerie” Birth Certificate and a prolific Daily Kos poster and Diary host named corvo? In the thread, the poster known as corvo makes the statement about forged birth certificates:

“I’m sure that every forgery

includes a note that essentially says “Hey! I’m a forgery!””

by corvo on Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 10:00:23 AM PDT

DailyKos Comments.

Jay Mckinnon/opendna responds with a copy of his “Haye I.B. Aphorgerie” Birth Certificate a few hours later :

[TD Note: opendna’s image that appeared in this comment is on his Photobucket page here]

Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 01:27:12 PM PDT

Curiously, 8 minutes later, Jay Mckinnon/opendna supposedly posts a blank birth certificate saying:

“Why don’t you print one up for him? Here’s a blank template”:

[TD Note: opendna’s image that appeared in this comment is on his Photobucket page here]

Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 01:35:46 PM PDT

The “Haye I.B. Aphorgerie” Birth Certificate sub thread subsequently was removed by Daily Kos.

But they failed to remove the evidence from their own archives. See post 555:

Kos Archives.

And, most curiously, they declined to remove opendna’s blank certificate which was posted only a few minutes after “Aphorgerie”.

I wonder what the authorities in Hawaii and/or the federal officials charged with enforcing immigration law would have to say about Daily Kos facilitating Jay Mckinnon’s posting of a blank forged birth certificate on line, free for anyone in the world to copy. Given that Mckinnon claims to be a former federal officer and document expert with the Department of Homeland Security who is presumably conscious of the illegality of forged documents this would seem to be an even more egregious act on his part. Daily Kos should be held accountable for their complete irresponsibility in allowing this to happen. Opendna’s “Aphorgerie” post could not have been removed without their complicity.

Conclusions

So what can we conclude from the foregoing information? I think, quite a lot:

1. The anomaly found on each certification proves that those found on Smears and Kos have the same origin as opendna’s blank and “Aphorgerie” certifications;

2. The resolution of the image found on Fight the Smears is much too low for it to be scrubbed and used as the forged blank template/certification of live birth found on Jay Mckinnon opendna’s photobucket website;

3. The images posted on Daily Kos are of inferior quality to those found on Jay McKinnon/opendna’s photobucket website;

4. It is virtually impossible to create a higher quality image from a lower quality one;

5. It is likewise extremely difficult to scrub text and lettering from a digital image without leaving plenty of evidence behind;

6. It is, thus, extremely unlikely that the Certifications of Live Birth found on Jay McKinnon/opendna’s photobucket website were copied and altered using the documents found on Daily Kos and Fight the Smears;

7. In an extraordinarily suspicious act, Jay Mckinnon/opendna endeavored to conceal the source image information found in his blank certification’s data files;

8. Daily Kos removed a sub-thread from the original Birth Certificate posting that had references to forgery and had an image of opendna’s “Haye IB Aphorgerie” image. They left standing opendna’s blank certification, a template that anyone may copy. Both image files were posted by opendna only a few hours after Daily Kos posted the Birth Certificate story.

9. Jay Mckinnon, who appears on numerous progressive blogs under the screen name “opendna” describes himself as a former federal officer and trained document expert for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He also is a Daily Kos Diary host, a Democratic Party activist, and an Obama supporter (see my previous post);

10. Given the above evidence, the most obvious and logical conclusion is that the Birth Certifications found on Daily Kos and Fight the Smears were derived from the Blank Certification of Live Birth found on Jay Mckinnon/Opendna’s photobucket website.

11. Given the importance of the discovery of what appears to be the forged birth certificate of a presumptive presidential candidate, the appropriate authorities should be called upon to investigate Jay Mckinnon, and those involved at Daily Kos, and at the Obama Campaign. Given the abundance of documentation concerning the possibly fraudulent nature of the digital version of his birth verification, the Obama Presidential Campaign should be called upon immediately to produce the paper version of his Hawaii Certification of Live Birth, if in fact, any such document actually exists.

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