Who requested this Certified Copy? a) The Kenyan govt requested it on its own for internal duplicate/backup reasons, or b) The Obama family (his mother or father) requested it for passport, divorce, or other reasons.
So my question is how many Certified Copies have theoretically been made and what are the circumstances that led to one of them coming to be placed on a red-striped cushion, photographed and put on the web? And from which source is it more likely for this Certified Copy to have come, a) or b)?
Considering both a) and b) cases, where would this Certified Copy have been filed and resting all these years? Oxford? Kenya? Jakarta? Hawaii? Washington? London? What breach of security led to it being removed from its file cabinet, or bottom drawer, and photographed?
I must say, I don't understand the circumstances and trail for this particular 1964 version to appear before us.
An anonymous person in fear for their life got it to Orly Taitz. Where it came from and why it ws ordered have been speculated at length, but their is no verifiable chain of custody since it was issued. Best bet is to check the book and page it identifies for the original record. That is what the motion is about, to authenticate it (or not).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2306741/posts
makes a case the document may be from from BO sr/anna dunham divorce files, explaining the 1964 issue date
I think the assumptions that were made were that it was, back in 1964, created because of the divorce case. It was requested by Obama’s mom’s lawyer because the lawyer assumed that there was a possibility that Obama’s dad might contest the divorce. As it turned out, Obama’s dad didn’t contest the divorce.
Anyway, to be safe, Obama’s mom’s lawyer requested the document. He probably opened it up, looked at it and put it back in the envelope. He probably put the envelope in a folder, the folder in an expanding folder (maybe?) and the folder in a file cabinet. After a while, the old files were placed in a box and put in storage, somewhere else, where they sat for many years.
How they were found? More difficult. Someone looking for Obama documents found out who the lawyer was for Obama’s mom, and guessed that firm would still have old files somewhere. They went to the warehouse and looked through the boxes of files and found the doc.
Maybe something like that.
Maybe some guys in a law office were sitting around chatting about politics when the subject came up about birthers. And then one of the older guys in the firm recalled something about a Dunham case way back in the day.
I think it’s very possible that the case was forgotten at the law firm for years. It’s very possible that no one who worked at the firm in 1964 is working at the law firm now in 2009. But the files don’t necessarily disappear.