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Republican leading inquiry into Biden’s autopen use has digitally signed letters (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

I don't think The Guardian is wrong here, see this passage from the article:

Comer has sent 16 letters to former Biden White House officials requesting transcribed interviews, NBC said. Metadata analysis showed that all appeared to be signed with a digitally inserted signature. Further letters requesting testimony from the White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor and Anthony Bernal, a senior aide to former first lady Jill Biden, were also signed with digital images, NBC said.

He did not use cryptographic signatures, but images of his written signature, which I think is pretty similar to using an autopen (albeit probably much easier to detect)