Posted on 05/17/2012 2:59:13 PM PDT by barmag25
The text editor of the 1991 literary agency booklet that described Barack Obama as “born in Kenya” said Thursday the line in question was “nothing more than a fact checking error.”
Miriam Goderich issued a statement to the Political Wire saying the future president never suggested “in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii”:
“You’re undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more.”
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Nixon's gap was only 18 and half minutes.
“The name is Miriam Goderich. M I R I A M. G O D E R I C H. Yes, that’s correct. Will the check be mailed to me or deposited directly into my account?”
not sure about biden, are you thinking of brennan the security director.
...attempted to close the barn door several hours late.
Like ANYTHING about this guy has EVER been FACT CHECKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup.
Barrack Obama is to America what Elizabeth Warren is to the Cherokees.
16 years before they bothered to fact check it. I’ll take Kenyan for $500 Alex.
Right now I could care less if he was born in Kenya or on Klingon....The bottom line is that 0bama is like an infected boil on the our country’s a$$ that needs to be lanced ASAP......
Lol, not too swift. And just what facts was this ‘fact checker’ checking? If Obama never said he was born in Kenya, then where did that idea even come from within that literary agency?
Well, maybe someone just dreamed it with no prior suggestion at all. Or maybe some palm reader told them about it.
Meanwhile, all handwringers in the Republican media refuse to acknowledge the existence of the Breitbart story, or continue to put their hands over their ears and repeat, “he was born in Hawaii, he was born in Hawaii, he was born in Hawaii, la, la, la,”
Yes, it should have read, "Jamhuri ya Kenya, (Republic of Kenya).
Absolute and utter BS. Every literary agency checks and rechecks basic facts about its authors. If they made a mistake on the first run, it gets corrected on the second. It doesn’t lay around for 17 years without being checked or revised.
I would love to get the talking heads from the Administration on camera answering that question. It would be great theater.
Did you advise the literary agent or have any communication with him after this went public?
Who would’ve guessed Obama’s publicist was a “birther”?
http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/brennan-passport-breach/2009/01/12/id/337482
Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.
The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm, The Analysis Corp., which has earned millions of dollars providing intelligence-related consulting services to federal agencies and private companies.
During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.
Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information.
“They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion,” one knowledgeable source told Newsmax. “But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file.”
At the time of the breach, Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign.
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The passport files include “personally identifiable information such as the applicant’s name, gender, social security number, date and place of birth, and passport number,” according to the inspector general report.
The files may contain additional information including “original copies of the associated documents,” the report added. Such documents include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S.-born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign country as minors.
The Obama campaign acknowledged at its “Fight the Smears” Web site that Obama was a foreign national until the age of 18, by virtue of his father’s British then Kenyan citizenship.
“Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982,” the Web site stated.
“Fight the Smears” attempted to debunk rumors that Obama was not a U.S. citizen by producing a 2007 computer-generated copy of his certification of live birth.
“The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America,” the Web site states.
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The State Department chalked up the passport file snooping discovered in March 2008 to “imprudent curiosity” by contract employees hired to help process passport applications.
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Following the breach, State Department managers met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, whose committee has oversight over the Foreign Service and the passport office. Biden will be sworn in as Obama’s vice president on Jan. 20.
There is a difference between a ‘journalist’ and a reporter.
Big difference.
News agencies don’t have reporters because they report. Journalists however say what they think or are told to think. Now that Warren Buffett friend of Obama owns 63 newspapers, guess what the journalists are going to say?
The truth will only be known when he is arrested and/or tried.
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