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I am a proud Birther and am grateful for what Orly is doing, but one thing bothers me. I am hoping there is a good explaination for it:

Roberts stated "I will read your documents, I will review them. Give them to my Secret Service Agent and I will review them". His Secret Service Agent approached me and stated " Give me all the documents, I promise you Justice Roberts will get them". I had a full suitcase of documents. The agent went to look for a box, he found a large box to fit all the documents, he showed me his badge, and introduced himself as Gilbert Shaw, secret Service Agent assigned to the security of Chief Justice Roberts.

It may be possible but coming from a fed LE background myself, The USSS does not guard the SCOTUS. SCOTUS has its own sworn LE agency and if protective details are needed, members of SCOTUS Police travel under special deputation through the US Marshal's Service. In extreme cases where things might get dicey, the USMS may assign agents for protective details as warranted...not the USSS.

Something could have been different on this trip, or the USSS might be anticipating something and assigning agents, but certainly NOT the norm.

I remember her talking about SS agents with Scalia and thought maybe she just assumed they were from the Secret Service...Fed agents in suits all look alike...but now she says she was badged. Not sure what to think of this.

I thought it was a little odd too, but I happened to be walking by the Commons on campus yesterday and saw a couple of dark SUV's parked with fellows in suits standing next to them with curly wires coming out of their ears. They were SS, all right (chatting to a guy with a polo shirt with an "ATF" logo, which was a little weird). Had a very brief opportunity to exchange pleasantries. I got the impression they thought it was a pretty laid-back gig, which it was.

There will absolutely be tape - this was the Bellwood lecture series and they're all recorded. More later as I learn it.

"It was a grueling day, I left home at 3 in the morning after sleeping only 3 hours and drove to San Diego, from there flew to Salt Lake City, from there to Tacoma, Washington, from there I drove for a couple of hours to be in Moscow Idaho,

There's something VERY screwy here. It is impossible to drive from Tacoma, Washington to Moscow, Idaho in a couple hours. It's a minimum of 250 miles as the crow flies. It would take a very minimum of 4-1/2 hours, not counting time to get a rental car and find where you're going. Also, she had to cross the Cascade Mountains, and there's a LOT of snow at the Pass. If there was fresh snow, she may have had to stop for avalanches or to put chains on.

Even leaving at 3 A.M., she made huge cross country zig-zags to fly from San Diego to Tacoma. If she had flown non-stop straight up the coast the flight would be three hours, but she made it into a major expedition by going via Salt Lake City. Justice Roberts must have spoken in the evening, or she'd have never made it.