Given that two people lost their jobs for unauthorized access to his US passport records, it’s fair to assume the he DOES have a US passport.
To get a passport, the applicant must either present a US Birth Certificate or a US Naturalization Certificate. Nobody can apply for Naturalization until they are 18.
Now, I’m no legal expert but it looks to me like that means that he couldn’t have started the process until August 1979 and must have completed the process by July 1981 when he travelled to Indonesia.
However, he couldn’t have applied to Occidental and gained a scholarship to attend that college if he hadn’t already naturalized. So we’re out of time. He couldn’t have naturalized.
If he didn’t present a naturalization certificate for his passport, he must have presented a US birth ceritificate.
Can a person have a passport from more than one country?
Also, we don’t know what’s in the records for Occidental. He could have applied as a foreign student, in which case it would have been problematic for him to have a US passport.
And wouldn’t there be passport records for any travel he did to America even if he traveled on a passport from another country? Would “US passport records” necessarily mean that the passport was US? Has anybody actually stated as fact that he has a US passport?
Senators get passports under different requirements than do the “small people.”
We don’t know what passport he traveled on to Indonesia as a child; to Pakistan as an adult in the early 80s; to Kenya in the 80s, after his father’s death; or on his “honeymoon trip” with his new wife in the 90s. All these overseas trips completed before he became a senator.
We do know that there was something within the State Dept. passport files in March 2008 (right after the COLB was photographed in Chicago by FactCheck representatives) that John O. Brennan’s employee sanitized, according to a source with knowledge of the subsequent State Dept. investigation into the breach, who spoke to a reporter anonymously. The reporter wrote that the file was sanitized of “embarrassing” information.
Replaced with . . .
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