by: Bob Unruh
The dispute over Barack Obama’s eligibility was headline material in his first term, as lawsuits reached as high as the U.S. Supreme Court and the president released his purported “original” birth certificate from Hawaii in an attempt to silence the doubters.
But there’s been a lot of silence over the past year, with the exception of a couple of diehard, truth-seeking individuals and websites.
That might change soon, according to the lead investigator for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse in Arizona, which was assigned to do a thorough investigation of the document posted by the White House as Obama’s birth certification.
Lt. Mike Zullo told WND there is interest being expressed in Congress about the investigation’s conclusion that the White House document is fraudulent – an image created on a computer.
A contingent of citizens in Maricopa County had asked Arpaio to look into the issue because they were concerned an ineligible candidate would be on their 2012 presidential election ballot.
Zullo previously has contributed evidence to a court case – now pending before the state Supreme Court in Alabama – on the dispute. He has testified that the White House computer image of Obama’s birth certificate contains anomalies that are unexplainable unless the document had been fabricated piecemeal by human intervention, rather than being copied from a genuine paper document.
“Mr. Obama has in fact not offered any verifiable authoritative document of any legal significance or possessing any evidentiary value as to the origins of his purported birth narrative or location of the birth event,” he explained earlier. “One of our most serious concerns is that the White House document appears to have been fabricated piecemeal on a computer, constructed by drawing together digitized data from several unknown sources.”
Zullo also has noted that the governor of Hawaii was unable to produce an original birth document for Obama, and it should have been easy to find.
Most recently, Grace Vuoto of the World Tribune reported that among the experts challenging the birth certificate is certified document analyst Reed Hayes, who has served as an expert for Perkins Coie, the law firm that has been defending Obama in eligibility cases.
“We have obtained an affidavit from a certified document analyzer, Reed Hayes, that states the document is a 100 percent forgery, no doubt about it,” Zullo told the World Tribune.
“Mr. Obama’s operatives cannot discredit [Hayes],” the investigator told the news outlet. “Mr. Hayes has been used as the firm’s reliable expert. The very firm the president is using to defend him on the birth certificate case has used Mr. Hayes in their cases.”
The Tribune reported Hayes agreed to take a look at the documentation and called almost immediately.
“There is something wrong with this,” Hayes had said.
Hayes produced a 40-page report in which he says “based on my observations and findings, it is clear that the Certificate of Live Birth I examined is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate, but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from various sources.”
“In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated,” he says in the report.
At the heart of the dispute is the constitutional requirement that a president be a “natural born citizen,” which at the time the nation was founded was considered to be the offspring of two citizens of the country.
But Zullo notes that the re-creation of an official document or the creation of an image represented as an official document is a crime itself. And the facts surrounding Obama’s case suggests there’s either no original or something in the original is being concealed.
Zullo told WND that there have been inquiries about the evidence from members of Congress, and he’s met with a few to answer their questions. His hundreds of pages of reports also are being forwarded to those who ask.
Carl Gallups, a former deputy sheriff in Florida and now a pastor and talk-show host, told the Tribune, “It was Barack Obama who said for 16 years, along with his publisher that he was ‘Kenyan born.’”
He was referring to the literary agency Dystel & Goderich, which published a brochure that said Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia.”
When Obama ran for president, it was changed to say he was born in Hawaii.
Zullo also recently made a public presentation at the annual convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in St. Charles, Mo. He then held a closed-door session for police officers, elected officials and others.
He elicited audible gasps and shock when he showed evidence that Obama’s document is fraudulent.
He later told Gallups that Sheriff Arpaio wants the issue investigated in Congress.
The argument over Obama’s eligibility first was raised by Hillary Clinton’s campaign when she was ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.
Zullo said Obama has raised further questions by refusing to release the marriage license of his father (Barack Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann Dunham), name change records (Barry Soetero to Barack Hussein Obama), adoption records, records of his and his mother’s repatriation as U.S. citizens from Indonesia, baptism records, Noelani Elementary School (Hawaii) records, Punahou School financial aid or school records, Occidental College financial aid records, Harvard Law School records, Columbia senior thesis, Columbia College records, record with Illinois State Bar Association, files from his terms as an Illinois state senator, his law client list, medical records and passport records.
Christopher Monckton, who writes a column for WND, said Zullo’s sworn affidavit in the case provides much information, and a sworn mathematical analysis demonstrates the near-zero probability that the White House “birth certificate” is genuine.
Monckton also noted the recalcitrant attitude on the part of authorities in Hawaii to the official law enforcement questions about the document’s validity.
And he cited the fact that in 1961, state law permitted Hawaiian parents of children born anywhere in the world to register them as Hawaiian-born, a legalized backdoor to U.S. citizenship.
“Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii’s governor, said he was present at Obama’s birth. Then he changed his story,” Monckton wrote.
“The posse has reported to the sheriff that two crimes have been committed: first, fraudulently creating a forgery that the White House had characterized, knowingly or unknowingly, as an officially produced governmental birth record; and secondly, fraudulently presenting to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large a forgery that the White House had represented as ‘proof positive’ of Obama’s authentic 1961 Hawaiian long-form birth certificate.”
Zullo repeatedly has explained that if the records are there, and they show what the White House says they show, what could possibly be a reason for keeping them concealed?
And if they do not show what has been alleged publicly, he asks, what do they show?
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Re: Zullo, Sheriff Joe and the Cold Case Posse:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292780/conspiracy-again-editors
Re Congress: Here is an example of the views of the leadership of Congress:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/paul_ryan_obama_birthers.php
(And the same view, that Obama really was born in Hawaii, and that birthers are lying about his birth certificate being forged, is shared by Ann Coulter, and Glenn Beck---and Mitt Romney and John McCain and Gingrich and Santorum and Huckabee.
WHY have birthers never even show proof that Obama's mother had a passport in 1961 (and if she did not have a passport, she could not have gone overseas---since Hawaii does not have borders with Mexico or Canada)? BTW, the date on which Obama's mother's passport file was created is unlikely to have been lost or scratched off of her passport file, and birthers obtained her passport file---but they have not said whether or not it was created in 1961. (I wonder why they didn't say?)
Why do you suppose that birthers want us to continue to believe that there is a rational chance that Obama's mother traveled overseas in 1961 if they have not even shown that she had a passport at the time? (And very very few 18-year-olds had passports in 1961---for that matter even fewer, thousands of times fewer, women traveled overseas in the last few months of pregnancy in 1961 due to the high rate of stillbirths in those days.)
So why do you think that birther sites have not shown whether or not she even had a passport-----and yet they want us to believe that she traveled overseas in 1961 and that the officials of BOTH parties in Hawaii are lying about it?
Oh, and why did birther sites LIE themselves when they claimed that Obama's Kenyan grandmother said that he was born in Kenya-------when she actually said repeatedly that he was born in HAWAII? Why did they simply cut off the tape just BEFORE she was asked "Where was he born" And why do you suppose they did not quote her answer to that, which was "In Hawaii, where his father was studying at the time."
So why did birther sites lie about what Obama's Kenyan grandmother said, and not tell us whether or not Obama's mother had a passport in 1961----and not tell us how very very few women traveled late in pregnancy in that year----and still want us to believe that there is a rational chance that the officials of BOTH parties in Hawaii are lying about the existence of Obama's Hawaii birth certificate and that Obama was born in a foreign country?
Response: Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department has released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother – but records for the years surrounding Obama’s 1961 birth are missing.
ReplyDeleteThe State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other “nonvital” passport records, including Dunham’s 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965.
Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama’s birth.
The issue at hand is the original long form birth certificate...which has never been released...and the one put up by the Obama administration has been proven to be a forgery..all the Obama administration need do is provide the original long form birth certificate providing one exists...what are they hiding is the question!
Re: "but records for the years surrounding Obama’s 1961 birth are missing."
ReplyDeleteThat statement, from a birther site ASSUMES that there were records in the file for 1961. But there is no evidence for it. There is no letter or document in the file that says "there were documents in 1961, but they are missing."
What the report DOES NOT SAY is the date on which the file was created. If the file was created AFTER 1961, there will of course be NO records for 1961 in it. If it was created in 1961, of course there would be. So, what was the date on which the file was created?
Notice that the birther site does not say. I wonder why not?
The date on which the file was created is unlikely to have been scratched out or eliminated from the file. The date on which the file was created is thus highly likely to be on the file (and if it isn't, THEN they can tell us that it isn't). But the birther site did not say what the date the file was created on. It did not say---I wonder why not.
Re: Obama has not released his original birth certificate. That is because, duh, no state ever releases the original. It says in the files because it is supposed to stay in the files. States send out official COPIES of a person's birth certificate, which are on security paper and have the official seal attached. Those official copies are the birth certificate.
The officials in Hawaii of BOTH parties (including the former Republican governor of Hawaii, a friend of Sarah Palin's) have repeatedly confirmed that they sent the short form and long form BCs to Obama and that ALL the facts on the BC that the White House put online are EXACTLY the same as on what they sent to him.
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DeleteRe: "Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama’s birth. "
Answer. Not that is not true at all. As I said, the date on which Obama's mother's passport file was created exists. Birthers simply have not shown it to us.
And the odds against her having a passport in 1961 are very high. Very very few 18-year-olds did in 1961. And, even if she had a passport (which is highly unlikely), the odds against a pregnant woman using it to travel long distances overseas in 1961 are ENORMOUS. Very very few did because of the relatively high risk of stillbirths.
And, just in case you are thinking of the "born in Kenya" myth. Obama's Kenyan grandmother NEVER said that he was born in Kenya. A birther site made that up entirely. It did so by simply cutting off the tape recording just BEFORE she was asked "Where was he born?" (And, what was its motive in doing that???). She answered that question by saying repeatedly "in Hawaii," and "in Hawaii, where his father was studying at the time." But birther sites never quoted that.
Nor did they ever quote the statement by an official of the Kenyan Embassy in Washington that said that the Kenyan government had investigated the story about Obama being born in Kenya---and that it is FALSE. (Moreover, if you do not believe that, only 21 people came to the USA from Kenya in 1961, and all but one of them came by ship, and there were no regularly scheduled ships from Kenya to Hawaii and back in 1961).
Let us see what birther sites did not show you. They did not show you that only 21 people came to the USA from Kenya. They did not show you that the Kenyan government investigated and that Obama was not born there. They did not show you whether or not Obama's mother had a passport, or tell you how few teenagers did in those days. They did not tell you how many times the officials of BOTH parties in Hawaii have confirmed that they sent the short form and long form to Obama and that all the facts are EXACTLY THE SAME. I wonder why birthers believe birther sites in their claims that Obama's birth certificate is "forged."
Their motive for claiming that Obama's birth certificate is forged is just the same as the motive for lying about what the grandmother said, and the motive for not telling about the Kenyan government's investigation, and the motive for not telling whether or not Obama's mother had a passport in 1961.
In less than a month two years will have passed since this was posted, and Obama is still the president of the United States and not one single member of Congress has even called for an investigation. That is because the claims on this page are totally false, and Obama really was born in Hawaii as his birth certificate and the confirmations of the officials of BOTH parties in Hawaii and the Index Data and the birth notices sent to the Hawaii newspapers by the DOH of Hawaii in 1961 all show.
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