New Evidence: Obama's Digital Birth Certificate; Metadata and Object Code Prove Forgery
Report: Metadata and object code proof of a forged birth certificate file!
By Mara Zebest
July 18th, 2012
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Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books including the Inside Photoshop series which typically exceeded 1000 pages, and published in at least ten different languages around the world. Ms. Zebest is also tech editor for numerous books for both Adobe and Microsoft products and has worked closely with the Cold Case Posse (CCP) for Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) in providing evidence on Obama’s forged birth certificate.
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The focus of this report is centered on Obama’s PDF file released on April 27, 2011 and can be downloaded at this White House link. The moment Obama’s PDF file was posted numerous professionals have been speaking out on the multitude of anomalies. Most notable indicator of malfeasance within Obama’s PDF file is the presence of multiple layers. A document scanned into a computer should only contain one layer—known as a flattened file. However, Obama’s PDF file not only contained more than one layer, it contained nine layers that clearly display recognizable signs of forgery along with a host of other manipulative indicators. The problems range from Tom Harrison’s observation of undisturbed safety-paper pattern beneath white dots to a clipping mask path that hides data and more.
Because layers are the most obvious symptom of foul play, it may be helpful to understand what layers are and what advantages layers provide. Layers are analogous to transparencies used on a projector in—what will be referred to as—the analog world. Content is printed on separate sheets (or layers) which allow the user to move, add, or remove one sheet element independently of the remaining sheets. The total composite document is comprised of the combined transparency stack of sheets.
The digital equivalent allows a user to add or move digital image information (or text) onto separate layers. This of course would be a manual and manipulative choice. Like their analog parallel, layers can provide a means to maneuver individual elements within the image independently of surrounding image pieces.
The layers have been the most damning and problematic evidence of file manipulation and the defenders of Obama are quick to respond with a plethora of excuses to justify the presence of layers. The excuses range from OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to the more predominant excuse of optimization—both of which have been debunked in my previous report for the Cold Case Posse press conference.
Many Obama defenders have conceded that OCR is not a factor and admit OCR was never applied to the PDF file. However arguments for optimization still persist. Optimization refers to a file saving process in which the goal is to reduce the file size while maintaining (or optimizing) the quality of the image (as best as possible depending on the settings applied).
Those that insist on the optimization argument either do not understand what attributes need to be present for this argument to hold water, or they are hoping the general public does not understand—probably a little of both. The defenders certainly count on the ignorance of the average citizen to understand the differences in layers produced from an automated process (such as optimization) compared to a manual choice to manipulate the file. One goal of the report is to offer a deeper understanding for recognizing the two patterns of layering (and to avoid being deceived or bamboozled). The report adds additional proof along the way that the optimization excuse fails miserably and can be completely ruled out as a justification for layers.
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The problems for the opposition increases when the metadata is considered; so what is metadata? If you’ve ever examined a file and noticed property information such as the creation date, modified date, or the program used to create the file, this is known as metadata. The metadata for Obama’s PDF reveals that a Mac-based program called Preview was used to generate the optimized PDF file.
Preview is a program that allows a user to open and view a file (as the name suggests). Preview can view a range of file types created from other programs as well as allowing a user to resave the file in any file format available within Preview. Preview is limited in its abilities and certainly not a program used to create a layered file from scratch. The optimization argument becomes increasingly problematic when it is understood that Preview is incapable of producing or generating layers automatically from an optimization process (when saving a file). Preview will only maintain preexisting layers produced from another program. Thus Obama’s PDF layers had to be generated from another program prior to being saved from Preview.
One more important point regarding Preview’s role in creating Obama’s PDF file: If a file is produced in another program; opened and saved again within Preview, the metadata from any prior programs used are replaced with Preview metadata, thus eliminating any digital tracks for the previous programs utilized in the process (such as Photoshop or Illustrator that might imply manipulation).
Along with metadata, object code is also buried within the PDF file—which refers to the code that describes the attributes or properties present for each file object (and can be seen by opening the PDF file in WordPad or Word). Layers within the Obama PDF file would be examples of objects described in the object code. The report examines the layer object code along with how the code properties can be applied in analyzing automated layers—produced in an Acrobat optimized document—against the manufactured layers—produced in Obama’s PDF file. Visible and consistent patterns in optimized layers do not exist in Obama’s PDF file.
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The bottom line, documented in detail within the report, is that an optimized layer pattern will only contain a single layer of 1-bit quality that displays black only. All remaining layers (in an optimized file) are 8-bit—containing multiple colors. In other words, the optimization process pulls out all the black color onto one (1-bit) layer—not two (1-bit) layers, not three (1-bit) layers—just one layer with this 1-bit object code attribute.
Obama’s PDF file (as seen in the figure) contains EIGHT 1-bit layers, and none of these 1-bit layers reflect a black color. However, the colors presented are a deception. The black is there, but it’s hidden in plain sight (as outlined in the report).
Taking into account the multiple 1-bit layers embedded in Obama’s file, combined with the associated color manipulation defined in the report; it is impossible to duplicate these file attributes through scanning or any other argument thrown at the debate which currently includes:
- Optimization
- Adaptive compression
- MRC (Mixed Raster Content) compression
- JBIG2
- Adobe Acrobat Pro, and…
- OCR
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When these displayed attributes from Obama’s PDF anomalies are reproduced via scanning and optimization settings—please publish the winning recipe settings for all to verify. And don’t forget to include a refry from Preview as the last step. If you cannot document the winning recipe, then supposition does not count; and therefore you have nothing—which falls into the category of misinformation, misunderstanding, misrepresenting, and misdirecting.
Obama’s PDF object code properties cannot be reproduced without manufacturing and manipulating layers. Any layers produced through optimizing will result in a single 1-bit layer. Repeat: JUST ONE 1-bit layer—not eight. In the case of adaptive compression, the color on the 1-bit layer will reflect a black color value—not off-white, not greenish-black, nor greenish-gray (as displayed in Obama’s PDF file).
The report will detail these concepts and provide a documented recipe on how the layers in Obama’s PDF file can be replicated down to the metadata, object code, and low file size. Here’s a hint: The only way it was possible was through complete image manipulation and manufacturing of layers. The winning recipe included Photoshop, Illustrator, and Preview (in that order).
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