About a year ago I listened in on one of Ed Hales radio shows and even through the radio I knew he wasn't being truthful. I say that because I'm wondering- as you were listening- if there was anything you heard that gave you pause- that gave you a sense that you were hearing the truth or not?
To me- this is the single most frightening claim to come out of this whole exhausting year of COLB investigations. If it IS true- then it really needs to be brought out ASAP- and security given to the people involved. If they really have documents proving these claims- the implications are beyond belief and it's time some grownups with guts stood up and said ENOUGH.
I will say that both guests were being cagy. But, it came across as if it were to protect themselves, as well as their informants. The comment about the Bush Administration set me on my heels, but after I thought about it I realized that I had noticed the same things — a bend-over-backwards effort to be solicitous and gracious to the incoming President.
Did I mention that most of these threats occurred during the period after the election and before the inauguration? McLeod and Hagmann have spent the intervening months chasing down corroborating testimony.
My take is, in any given situation, I not only look at what is said/done, but what isn’t.
In this case, the wholesale silence of the GOP to squeeze Barry to produce his Birth Certificate is extremely suspicious, almost to the point of diabolical. It is no coincidence. Something is up and the GOP is in on it someway, somehow.
What I heard from Doug Hangmann isn’t surprising, about the threats etc. But the so called signed statement by a major anchor/host won’t really matter much, whereas a solid piece of paper evidence will.
At the same time, it is also showing that public pressure is real and working, and we should keep it up.
I have stated this before, my gut hunch tells me at this time the more reliable source of information would be from the Indonesian source, old marriage certificate, birth certificate, immigrant visa information, adoption record etc., basically every piece of paperwork that had to have gone thru for “the new family” to live there for a few years. The Indonesian government probably has a lot of paper trail.
We have the power to keep them spinning too.