A July 11 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh touts an affidavit, “a copy of which was obtained by WND,” by so-called document expert Doug Vogt “there was a plan to mislead the American public” about President Obama’s birth certificate, “and it went as high as the Oval Office.”
So how did WND obtain a copy of this affidavit? Did it create this affidavit for Vogt to sign?
Remember, birther Tim Adams told a radio show that WND-affiliated lawyers created an affidavit for him to sign in which he claimed that he was told there was no copy of Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii state archives — a claim seemingly disproven by Obama’s release of said certificate in April. Also remember that WND editor Joseph Farah shut down a press conference rather than answer a question about the affidavit.
Well, whoever created this affidavit for Vogt did a horrible job, to the point where it may very well not be considered legally valid. The first page carries a date of July 4, but the notary public’s signature carries a date of May 10 — nearly two months earlier. This strongly suggests that Vogt’s affidavit was altered after the notary signed it, which we can’t imagine is legal.
Further, the final page of the affidavit on which the notary’s signature appears is noticeably different in appearance than the previous five pages — it looks like a faded photocopy, while the other five pages appear to be a direct export into a PDF file.
We’re not lawyers, but we suspect such obvious discrepancies — which you wouldn’t expect to see coming from a self-proclaimed “expert in documents, typesetting, imaging, scanners and document imaging programs” who is trying to disprove the authenticity of another digital document — invalidate Vogt’s affidavit.
Meanwhile, WND’s omerta on anything that contradicts its birther agenda continues as Unruh fails to mention the existence of a detailed analysis that disproves Vogt’s analysis. WND has repeatedly failed to tell its readers of this analysis even as it touts Vogt.
So we have a highly questionable affidavit from a so-called “expert” that WND itself may have created for the sole purpose of doing a story on it, just like it did with the Adams affidavit. It seems that neither Vogt nor WND can be trusted.