He certainly looks like couch-guy. But I don't see any evidence that the Syrian ambassador to China, and previously to the US, ever worked for the US gov such that a lack of FBI security clearance would be odd.
doh! that was exactly the point you were making.
It's a photograph on cheap early '80 film stock that sat around in for thirty years before being scanned and JPEG compressed.
You are analyzing things below the noise floor.
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I dunno about it being shopped. But,
What light source would be point-like enough to produce those shadows that would be available in Indonesia during that decade? It's not a camera flash. If you trace the points on the shadow and their corresponding features you can see that it appears to be a considerable distance away, and thus must be very bright.
I decoded it too. but Don't encourage him.
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Not impossible. The flash was to the right of the lens. Like one of these (pic related).
The American Thinker dug into it in 2014.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/01/barack_hussein_soebarkah.html
i just grabbed the first image of a side-mounted flash that came up in a web search. Never mind the image of the dude attached to it.
These are JPEG compression artifacts.
(keks inaudibly)
Needs further digging to confirm. That Micheal Phillip Boerner (born 1935) is not necessarily related to the Phil Boerner that took the photo.
You're probably right. But there are gaps in your proof.
It looks like he's pissing blood. Whoever put this together must have really not liked him.
"clickbait" may have had to do with IP harvesting on this board.
Someone post a video stored not on 8chan, anons click on it to enlarge what they think is a thumbnail, that causes your browser to reach out to the other server, which gives away the anons IP address.