by WTPOTUS, ©2011
(Jun. 8, 2011) — Why is Savannah Guthrie the only journalist to see
the original
, certified Obama birth certificate in three dimensions, up close and personal?
By now the world knows that on April 27, 2011, 8:48 am, EDT, White House (WH) press secretary, Jay Carney, held a “gaggle” to introduce the media and the public to what he implied was President Barack Hussein Obama’s
long-form birth certificate from
In another post on this blog, that press conference was dissected and some still-unexplained curiosities were noted.
At the presser, reporters received copies of Obama’s short-form certification of live birth (SFCOLB), originally released in June, 2008, as well as a recently issued “long-form” certificate of live birth (LFCOLB). The copies were one-sided, on white paper, and contained relicts of other documents that must have been stacked all together on the scanner or copy machine. See blogger butterdezillion’s excellent explanatory post about this curiosity.
At 9:16 am that same day, AP photojournalist J. Scott Applewhite posted a copy of the media’s copy of the LFCOLB at the Muscatine Journal, an online publication.
There’s been confusion about this image because of its creation date. Apparently Applewhite photographed or scanned the black-and-white version of the LFCOLB that the media received. That white page is not the same green-hued “document” that the WH placed on its website, in PDF form. The media copies were not created by directly copying the certified LFCOLB, as demonstrated by butterdezillion. It’s likely the PDF was printed out and then copied multiple times. So there is the one-sided white version; and there is the green version, in PDF form, but allegedly printed by the Hawaiian Department of Health (HDOH) on green, cross-hatched security paper. This explains why the creation dates on the digital images differ.
Sometime later that same day, NBC reporter Savannah Guthrie tweeted this message:
I saw the certified copy of long-form POTUS birth certificate today, felt the raised seal, snapped this pic.
Click to enlarge.
She must have snapped two photos. Now there are (at least) three different digital images of the LFCOLB on the Web. Her photo(s) will be the subject of my next post.
In addition to copies of the two COLBs, the press received copies of correspondence between Obama’s lawyer and the HDOH. Obama’s personal lawyer, Judith Corley, a partner at Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie and decades-long colleague of soon-to-be-former WH Counsel Robert Bauer, obtained a waiver from the HDOH, contending that this would
allow my client to make a certified copy of his original birth certificate publicly available.
But no certified copy is publicly available. So far, Savannah Guthrie is the only member of the media who claimed to have seen the LFCOLB close up. If any reader knows of another reporter who stated that she or he examined and photographed the “real deal”, please let us know. The certified LFCOLB was not even made available for examination by reporters at the brief press conference, based upon their comments; the document was removed from the podium before Obama arrived to speak. No cameras were allowed at the presser.
So no certified, three-dimensional, paper LFCOLB has been made available to the public, although this was the excuse Ms. Corley gave when she requested the unnecessary waiver. Unnecessary, unless there’s something about Obama’s original records that differ from the ordinary—such as a sealed adoption.
So again, why was Savannah Guthrie the chosen one? Why was she the sole mainstream media reporter allowed to see, feel, examine, and photograph the supposed Obama “certified long-form birth certificate”? The green version, the one on security paper, allegedly hand-carried back to DC by Judith Corley? Who is Savannah Guthrie? She’s a lawyer and a journalist.
Savannah Guthrie received her undergraduate degree in journalism [in 1993] from the University of Arizona before receiving her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center [in 2002], where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. … She worked for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld … Guthrie was a Law Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center.
