Posted on 03/22/2011 1:23:41 PM PDT by STARWISE
While out promoting my new book, “Deconstructing Obama,” I have been asked a few times about Obama’s mysterious Social Security number.
Not knowing enough to speak authoritatively, I chose to swim upstream through the data flood and head for the source.
Here I found a no-nonsense licensed investigator from Ohio named Susan Daniels. Widowed at 30 with seven children, Daniels went back to school and eventually emerged as a certified paralegal.
After several years working for others, Daniels got her own license as an investigator in 1995. Since then, she has specialized in litigation support for law firms. Her particular strength has been in researching assets.
By her own admission, Daniels is “good with public records.” She knows her way around databases and has access to many that the public does not.
“I did not like the way things were going,” Daniels says of the country’s drift circa 2009. And so in the best spirit of citizen journalism, she began to investigate Obama on her own.
What she and fellow investigator Neil Sankey unearthed was a nugget that could have ended the career of a George Bush or a Sarah Plain: Barack Obama had been using a social security number issued in Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, a state in which he never lived or even visited at that time in his life.
This will not come as news to the readers of WorldNetDaily, whose thorough investigation climaxed last June when WND’s veteran White House correspondent Les Kinsolving confronted Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs on the subject.
Predictably, Gibbs laughed Kinsolving off and switched the subject to the birth certificate. Kinsolving had seen this kind of laugh and switch before. In 1982, for instance, he introduced the subject of AIDS to then press secretary Larry Speakes.
“Over a third of [the victims] have died,” said Kinsolving. “It’s known as ‘gay plague.’”
“I don’t have it. Do you?” joked Speakes to a general round of laughter. But unlike Gibbs, Speakes simply did not know any better.
As much as Daniels appreciates the work of WND and other serious investigators who have helped clarify the picture, she is distressed by the few who have clouded it.
“There have been many playing junior investigator from the start,” she jokes. “I don't know if they even have their decoder rings yet.”
This being the case, I asked Daniels to guide me through the data mine field and help me ascertain what we know for sure about the world’s best-known social security number--042-68-4425.
“All I can say,” says Daniels of 042-68-4425, “is that it’s phony and [Obama] has been using it, with it first appearing on his selective service document in 1980.”
Daniels sent me a copy of the hand-written application of the individual who held the number immediately before Obama’s, 042-68-4424. The applicant, Thomas Wood, died at age nineteen which is why his information is available.
Wood's Social Security number was issued sometime between March and May of 1977. Obama would turn sixteen in August of that year. Woods lived on Glenview Drive in Newington, Connecticut, the state from which all “042s” applied. Obama lived in Hawaii.
True to form, the left-leaning media set out to undermine the Social Security controversy and ridicule the investigators. Revealing, however, is the weakness of the response.
“Numbers are assigned based on the return address on the request envelope, not residency,” crowed Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post as though he had said something meaningful. Linkins suggested two possible explanations, both preposterous.
One is that Obama applied for his SSN as a little boy in Indonesia for no known reason, and the application just happened to be processed in Connecticut for no known reason either.
For the second, Jinkins cited the argument of Carole Glibert, in the Yahoo-related “Associated Content.” Said Gilbert, presumably with a straight face, “In fact, Barack Obama's dad attended college in Connecticut and in 1977, Obama was college aged; is it beyond reason to consider that he might have checked out his father's alma mater?”
Last time I checked, Harvard was in Massachusetts. The closest town to Harvard in Connecticut is about 90 minutes away, and there is no record that Obama Sr. lived there, let alone that Obama visited his imaginary alma mater and just happened to apply for a Social Security card while visiting.
Daniels also sent me a copy of Obama’s Selective Service data. Obama appears to have registered on September 4, 1980, a month after his nineteenth birthday. The form lists the telling last four digits of his “042” number, “4425.”
This is the first use of the “042” number that Daniels could find. She is just not sure it is legitimate. Some have credibly argued that the Selective Service information was forged and backdated once Obama became a presidential candidate.
“They were stupid to use the CT number on the [Selective Service] card,” Daniels adds, “because now there is no way for [Obama] to back out of that number.”
Rest @ link
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Decons
I’m glad you posted the c-span link to their video of Cashill’s intervirew, which I happened to see on TV.
Well worth watching.
He will destruct himself.
There’s a website you can go to that will generate fake SS#’s along with a fake name and DL, address to go with it.
I pray that happens before he destructs the Country.
http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2011/03/deconstructing-jack-cashill/
Because of the typo, the system had him as living in CT, so it assigned him a SSN that starts with 042. Once the number is assigned, it can't be changed, even after the zip code error was corrected, so that's his number to this day. This would not be the first or last time some government bureaucrat mistyped a number.
As to the timing, 1977 makes perfect sense. He stated publicly that he got his first job at age 16, which means that's probably when he applied for his first social security card. And how old was he in 1977? You guessed it, 16.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
It is ... ;)
Plus the fact it was already issued to a person who was born in 1890.
Do the numbers go back into circulation upon death?
I believe my SS# was issued in 1974 and I was eleven at the time. In fact, all my brothers and sisters received their SS# with cards at the same time.
I don’t know why but my Mom was surprised at the whole thing.
Barry would have received his around the same time as well and there would be no reason for him to apply for a SS# in Connecticut as would presumably have one already.
Besides, is there any documented evidence he visited Connecticut and visited his father’s presumed alma mater?
I thought his “Proxy Father” went to school at Harvard in Mass.
It's no less than a theory than the contention that his SSN is fraudulant. The only difference is that my theory actually fits the facts, whereas yours does not.
The fact is Obama had a Connecticut SS#.
Sure, and it means nothing.
He never corrected the problem if indeed there is any validity to your theory.
There is no problem to correct.
Do you have any evidence for that claim?
Do the numbers go back into circulation upon death?
No. They are never reused.
Investigators might be approaching this from the wrong direction.
Just suppose, for example, that Obama’s history wasn’t created by a bunch of pathetic, 1960s-era radicals. What if his history was created by a competent organization, with intent to fabricate his background from the ground up?
But there’s an obvious twist to this theory. This “competent organization” seems to be limited, in some way, by *not* seriously breaking the law, beyond perhaps a “legal” fabrication of an identity.
That is, a “competent organization” would likely have no difficulty forging a certificate of live birth, or whatever document was needed to establish his birth. Likewise, they would have no problem at all inserting it into the State of Hawaii’s birth records. Except for the fact that this would be a serious violation of Hawaii’s laws.
The federal government of the United States operates under some odd rules. For example, while its security and police agencies can be given a waiver of *federal* laws for many purposes, they *cannot* waive State laws, without the express permission of that State.
For example, a fake identity can be generated at the federal level for the Witness Protection Program, but even that can’t go into State records, without State permission. For let’s say a fake high school transcript, college transcript, State driver’s license, etc.
Two problems with your theory.
First, if applying for a social security card back then was anything like it is today, you mail your application to the local SS office. If he had been living in Hawaii at the time, he obviously would have mailed it to the Hawaii office, where it would have been processed. The Hawaii office would have issued him a Hawaii number - not one from Connecticut - regardless of what his ZIP code was.
Second, speaking as someone who has a number issued from a state other than the one he was born in, I know that I needed a social security number when I started elementary school - which is when mine was issued. While it’s plausible that Hawaii did not have the same requirement Maryland did, this adds a wrinkle to your “facts.”
See my posts above. The simplest, most plausible explanation is clerical error. If you mistype the first digit of a Honolulu zip code as a zero instead of a nine, you get a Connecticut zip code. So what most likely happened is the clerk mistyped the zip code on his application, and the system assigned numbers based on zip code.
Once a SSN is assigned, it can't be changed, so even if he corrected the clerical error on the zip code, his SSN wouldn't change.
As far as I can tell, that's the only pluasible explanation anyone has proposed, and it makes perfect sense.
What an unlucky fellow to have so many records lost or destroyed and so many typo’s.
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