Posted on 06/09/2011 1:51:48 PM PDT by rxsid
"Recent WND Inquiries Appear To Have Established Obama’s Birth In Hawaii.
I don’t know how this slipped below my radar, but back on May 9, 2011, World Net Daily published an investigative report entitled, “Bombshell: U.S. government questioned Obama citizenship“, which – in my opinion – conclusively established that Obama was born in Hawaii. In that report, Aaron Klein revealed official documents stored in US immigration files which chronicle the troubles faced by Obama’s mother’s second husband, Lolo Soetoro, when he petitioned the US Government for a visa extension.
The WND report correctly notes that US officials expressed an interest in determining whether Soetoro’s step-son, President Obama, was actually a US citizen. The US officials who were handling Soetoro’s Visa extension application made copious notes in the file and the official comments therein illustrate that these officials doubted some of Soetoro’s statements. So, they decided to investigate the relationships listed in his application.
Below is the text of the relevant portion of the WND report:
One critical exchange is dated August 21, 1967, from Sam Benson, an officer at the Southwest Immigration and Naturalization Service office in San Pedro, Calif.Benson’s query stated, “There is nothing in the file to document the status of the spouse’s son. Please inquire into his citizenship and residence status and determine whether or not he is the applicant’s child within the meaning of Section 101(b)(1)(B) of the Act, who may suffer exceptional hardship within the meaning of Section 212(a).”
The reference is to the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which defined a “child” as an unmarried person under 21 years of age who, among other qualifiers, could be a “stepchild,” whether or not born out of wedlock, provided the child had not reached the “age of eighteen years at the time the marriage creating the status of stepchild occurred.”
A response to Benson’s inquiry came from one “W.L. Mix” of the central immigration office, who determined Obama was a U.S. citizen.
Mix replied: “Pursuant to inquiry from central office regarding the status of the applicants’ spouse’s child by a former marriage.”
“The person in question is a United States citizen by virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961. He is living with the applicants’ spouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is considered the applicant’s step-child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to the child’s mother on March 5, 1965.”The files do not state how the office determined Obama was born in Honolulu.
So here we see the US Government looking into an application for Visa extension by Soetoro. Further review of those documents reveal that the officials did not trust everything in Soetoro’s application. Therefore, the Government officials wanted to establish whether Obama Jr. was truly a US citizen. They made a direct inquiry on this very issue. And they concluded that Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Again, this was established by “W.L. Mix” of the central immigration office.
Having taken such an exhaustive look into Soetoro’s application, and especially considering the government’s examination of Obama’s citizenship, I don’t see how the government officials involved would have overlooked the fact that Stanley Ann Dunham would have been out of the US and far away in Kenya on the date W.L. Mix established as DOB for Obama – if Obama had been born in Kenya.
Furthermore, a report today by WND, “Documents show marriage of Obama’s parents a sham“, illustrates that a similar investigation as to Obama, Sr. was conducted when he was also applying for a Visa extension. Those official documents include a handwritten memo from the file, written by (presumed) INS official William Wood, which states that Obama Sr.’s son, “Barack Obama II”, was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.
Moreover, in today’s WND article, Jerome Corsi concludes, as a result of reviewing all of the relevant INS documents, that if President Obama was born in Kenya, Dunham must have traveled there without Obama Sr., who was definitely in the US on August 4, 1961, according to these US Government records. This analysis by Corsi is correct. Obama Sr.’s presence in the US at the time of Obama’s birth is now sufficiently documented. This fact alone adds very heavy weight to President Obama having been born in the US.
I don’t see how two sets of US government officials, independently investigating the relationships between Soetoro and Dunham on one hand, and Obama Sr. and Dunham on the other, could both fail to reveal that Dunham would have been in Kenya at the time of Obama Jr.’s birth. The government officials would’ve had access to Dunham’s passport files. The contents thereof were relevant to the investigations since she was married to both men, and the marriages were relevant to immigration status, as was the issue of children.
Those who persist in accusing Obama of not being born in Hawaii do so in light of official government investigations, between 1961 and 1966, which established his birth, to the satisfaction of inquisitive government immigration officials, as having taken place on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
As far as I’m concerned, the issue is settled with a massive presumption of authenticity. I do not see how the information published by WND regarding US immigration official W.L. Mix’s investigation into Obama’s US citizenship flew so far below the radar. That is the single most important fact I have come across that establishes Obama’s birth in Hawaii.
CLOSURE IS POSSIBLE WITH REGARD TO BC ISSUE.
For those who insist on keeping the birther circus alive and kickin’ (despite the info listed above), I believe there is a simple way to settle the issue once and for all. I have found two references to the fact that the US Government keeps passport “issuance” records for all passports issued. The most recent is from Congressional testimony on the House floor from March 10, 1998:
“In addition, the committee on conference is aware that on weekends there is no Departmental procedure or mechanism to access the passport issuance records maintained by the Consular Affairs Bureau. The result is that when a foreign law enforcement authority inquires about the status of a person or passport on the weekend, the State Department does not or cannot respond. This is a clear deficiency in border security procedures.” (See pg. 41/53 in the PDF counter.)
The second reference is to a US Government GAO report – written for the Secretary of State – that argued for the destruction of passport application materials. The destruction of such materials was the basis of more conspiracy theories as to Dunham’s various passport applications and renewals requested in a previous FOIA by Christopher Strunk.
Unfortunately, the FOIA request by Strunk, which has been well documented online, failed to request passport “issuance” records for Stanley Ann Dunham. Strunk only requested passport “application” materials. And the government’s reply to his FOIA request was specifically limited to passport “application” materials. Since Strunk didn’t specifically ask for passport “issuance” records, the government was not obligated to search for those records… but they do exist and they can be found.
The GAO report – which refers to passport issue cards – documents the destruction of passport application materials, but it notes that the Government retains all “old passport issue cards”:
“During numerous discussions with GSA about document retention periods, Department officials have presented many reasons for the continued storage of original passport applications. They have placed great emphasis in pointing out that old passport applications can be used to derive the citizenship of others…But other ways are just as reliable and effective… Should the Department need to verify if a parent was ever issued a passport, old passport issue cards have been microfilmed and can be referenced by the Department.“ (See pg. 44/70 in the PDF counter.)
Therefore, if Stanley Ann Dunham had been issued a passport prior to President Obama’s birth, there will be a passport issue card available with that information. If no such card exists, Dunham did not have a passport prior to August 4, 1961, and Obama could not have been born in Kenya. She would have needed a passport to be in Kenya.
It is my opinion that a proper FOIA request for passport issue cards (or copies thereof) will establish that Stanley Ann Dunham did not have a passport prior to August 4, 1961. Such a request must be SPECIFICALLY designed to eliminate all wiggle room. I suggest the following wording:
Please forward all passport issue cards and/or microfilm or microfiche copies, or any other copies thereof – or any other documents – which reference the issuance of any passport for Stanley Ann Dunham. To be perfectly clear in my FOIA request, please understand that I am NOT interested in passport application materials. Please limit your response and documents to passport issue cards or copies thereof – as well as any other documents – which the government possesses for Stanley Ann Dunham that refer to her being issued a US passport.
Any FOIA request should NOT ask for more than the passport issuance materials. I cannot stress enough how important it is that the FOIA be strictly limited as suggested above. Such a FOIA should end this conspiracy theory with authority and finality.
I should note that I have come across a certain rabid Obama eligibility supporter who alleges to have done a proper FOIA request as to passport issuance materials. I do not trust this source and I do not have access to the EXACT wording of the alleged FOIA request. Suffice to say that anyone who wants true closure on the place of birth issue should do a FOIA – strictly worded as I have suggested above – requesting passport issuance documents for Stanley Ann Dunham.
I nominate the folks at WND to take this on and make all aspects public since they are the main news resource for this issue. They are invited to take the suggested FOIA request as written above (in red) and to run with it.
The fourth estate has the power and responsibility to see this through. They should thoroughly document the exact wording of the FOIA request, and they should also document the stages of compliance by the government to such a request as is required by law. Definitive documentation regarding whether Stanley Ann Dunham held a passport prior to August 4, 1961 is readily available to the public.
The Government is required to respond to the EXACT request made. No mention of passport application materials should be forwarded by the government in response to a properly worded FOIA request for passport issuance cards (or other issuance documents). We know the cards/documents exist and that they are necessary to the government as is proved by the GAO report and Congressional testimony.
The GAO notes in their report from 1981 that while passport application materials may be destroyed, “passport issue cards” are kept. This is beyond dispute.
If no passport issuance documents can be found for Obama’s mother prior to his date of birth, then he could not have been born in Kenya.
I am not a person who needs to see anymore proof. I believe now and have always believed President Obama was born in Hawaii. But if you still have doubts, this line of inquiry is crucially necessary.
The BC issue and the birther circus surrounding it have served Obama well. Like Chester Arthur before him, the nation was thoroughly distracted by the place of birth faux conspiracy whilst the true legal question concerning his dual national status – despite place of birth – was obscured.
Everyone loves a big green juicy salacious conspiracy theory. That’s much more fun than a certified boring legal question, the answer to which was never in the hands of Obama, whereas the BC always was. He who controls the game, controls the outcome. (“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” – Johnny Rotten)
I am writing this to clear your attention spans for what will be the most authoritative and well documented analysis I have to offer on the dual national issue concerning Obama’s perpetual POTUS eligibility dilemma. I do not want the circus to obstruct the law. If you understand the importance of this post, you will pass it on far and wide so the attention of the nation can focus on the true Constitutional crisis.
Leo Donofrio, Esq."
Having a sugar daddy prince, being a long time member of the Choom Gang and men's bath houses has benefits.
The 14th ammendment was not intended to address the subject of Natural Born loyalties. It was solely intended to convey citizenship and attendant voting rights to persons lawfully born within the US.
Many people are lawfully born here that are not Natural Born. The child of a soldier born on a military installation would qualify, as long as both parents are citizens; that has never been in question.
“According to the Post and Email article, the researcher (FR’s own Ladysforest?) did get access to the marriage indexes and saw two entries for Stanley Ann, one for her marriage to Obama and the other for her marriage to Soetoro. Maybe you should ask her for the photos which she claimed she took?”
Actually, she didn’t take the picture. She did post the picture taken of a typed Grooms’ index which you can read about at the link below. Once again, you are confusing this index with the ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN INDEX which shows the volume and page number where the MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE is filed. As Beckwith has said several times, too much out there is bunk unless it’s backed up with original documents (and at this point in time I wonder if even those can be trusted, i.e. LFBC). This sort of index can easily be tampered with and as you are well aware of has been the problem with all records surrounding this family. Show me the CERTIFIED COPY of the MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE and I might consider it as proof after it’s been buckhead-ed by FR.
Both.
This might be helpful:
http://www.progenealogists.com/sourcetypes.htm
“It is important for genealogists to understand the meaning behind the terms original vs. derivative, as well as primary vs. secondary vs. tertiary source information... Furthermore, the terms “original material” and “derivative material” confusingly combine 2 separate conditions. These two conditions are:
1) The physical description of the document
a. original
b. copy of original
c. derivative
2) The state of the information within the document
a. primary
b. secondary
c. tertiary”
The link gives examples of each and parallels much of what we’re dealing with here. The further away from the orginal document or event, the less reliable the information is. Think of it as the childhood game of Telephone where one person says something (the original or primary information) but after it goes through several persons (primary, to secondary, etc.) it becomes so far removed from the real deal that it’s garbage. Garbage is what much of the newspaper articles and internet postings are because no one cares enough to document their sources.
Some reading I did a year or so ago indicated that Hawaii's peculiar policies regarding birth documents were the result of it being an Island state. Children would sometimes be born aboard ship in transit, and it was customary to list place of birth as their next port of call, likewise, many people moving to Hawaii from Foreign Countries would want their children to have all the privileges of being an American Citizen, so they could easily be induced to support an extremely liberal "get in the door" policy while at the same time supporting a "Don't let anyone look at our docs too closely" policy.
I have also read in the last few months, a claim that Hawaii has long been running a scam selling American Citizenship" for the purpose of enriching those people in charge of issuing the papers. Nowadays you have to take everything you read with a grain of salt but the notion actually seemed plausible to me. I've read a lot about the "laid back" atmosphere of Hawaiian's in General and their bureaucracy in particular, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they didn't see anything wrong with not checking too closely on the claims of foreign immigrant children, as to where they are born.
In any case, there is an unpleasant aroma (of corruption and/or incompetence) coming from our 50th state.
I think most people understand that NBC status is a combination jus soli vs jus sanguinis (territory vs blood). Despite the seeming simplicity, there have been many views opined which reach different conclusions.
In terms of the situation of military children, there are different views. Donofrio (Natural Born Citizen) holds that such a birth would not confer NBC status to military children. In fact, he did not believe that either McCain or Obama qualified as a NBC. I have heard of situations where military personnel were informed that their children would not be NBCs if they were born abroad and that some women delivered their babies in the US to avoid this possibility.
If there were a simple solution, Obama's eligibility would have been resolved, one way or another, by now. But with a Supreme Court that, for example, has created brand new rights (e.g., abortion) without any reference to the text of the Constitution, you can't rule anything out, especially for its liberal branch.
You are misreading the page. That says to “SEE PAGE 51” for endorsements.
The ORIGINAL index books are completely off limits to the public. Rather, it is up to the Director to make the call - and guess what? Both researchers, TsunamiGeno and Interrogator did ask, and both were refused.
I’ll look through my stuff and see what other marriage related index images are there. Interrogator is the one that captured the images.
I will add any additional ones that I have to the bottom of the original post.
Thanks for the link. It looks to be quite useful.
I would say that I would go to a third level, where conflicts between documents are resolved based on the forensic characteristics of the data and how it agrees/disagrees with other documents. The amazing thing about the Lucas BC was that, despite its numerous detractors, it had the exact same birth date as was revealed in the “new” Obama BC. This information was not on the Obama-provided “COLB.”
Additionally, the provenance is helped immensely if the individuals listed on the document were real and indeed had the official role as outlined in the document at the time it was created. This is true of both the Lavender and Smith birth records.
I just don’t think that, in general, many authorities are going to let you paw through additional documents. Many places have them microfilmed or whatever, and then put out of reach. I know our county title records are all computerized: the average person will not get access to the underlying documents. I am not even sure that any party can get access to the documents unless possibly via a some sort of court order.
Orly’s Taitz’ subpoena is for the actual physical document that was generated 50 years ago. I think I can say that most of us hope that her subpoena is honored and that it turns out to be the fact that Obama was indeed not born in Hawaii.
For the rest of us, dealing with copies and derivatives is what we end up having to deal with, and have to figure out what trust factor we apply to the records which we have. A big part of the world that I live in has to deal with “Data Cleansing,” where we apply rules to help determine the true value of a data element. Most of the time, we do not distribute the original, uncleansed, data throughout the organization. This is just a (potential) shortcoming that we must learn to deal with. Hopefully, enough trust has been acquired to make the rest of the organization feel comfortable with this fact.
In my state, I can go to the City Clerk’s office, fill out a form, pay $12.00 and can get an official copy of a marriage license, with these restrictions:
“If one of the parties was born out of wedlock, only the bride or groom may obtain the record and positive identification will be required, such as a driver’s license. Also, these cannot be mailed to a post office box address.”
Is it Hawaii’s policy that you can’t get certified copies of marriage certificates?
Is the only thing you can get from that bunch are those “index” listings?
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Certain items on this form bother me:
1. Aug. 9, 1961. Stay expires.
2. Aug. 4, 1961. Obama supposedly born at KAPIOLANI HOSPITAL.
3. STRANGE COINCIDENCE? Is it just a coincidence that Obama's birth date of Aug. 4, 1961 is just a few days BEFORE date that stay expires, Aug. 9, 1961?
4. NO CHILD LISTED? Did Obama senior LIE when he did not write that Obama junior was born on Aug. 4, 1961?
5. Or,worse, is it possible that Obama junior was not born yet by Aug. 31, 1961, the date stamped on the form, and that is the reason why Obama senior did not list Obama junior on the form?
6. PERJURY: Did Obama senior commit PERJURY by NOT listing Obama junior and his other children still in Kenya at this time?
7. OTHER CHILDREN IN KENYA: Did Obama purposely NOT list his children ie Kenya because he knew that if he did, he would be questioned about his wife in Kenya and he was scared that would be denied an extension because he would be considered a bigamist by United States immigration officials?
8. OBAMA JUNIOR NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE? Is it possible that Obama senior deliberately left Obama junior's name off of the form because he knew that he would have to provide a United States birth certificate to prove that Obama junior was born in the United States, bit Obama senior knew that there such long form birth certificate did not exist?
9. ADVISER STATEMENT: Obama senior goes to the trouble to get a statement from his college adviser dated Aug.31, 1961 so that it would help him extend his stay in Hawaii, but he does not bother to get a statement or birth certificate that Obama junior was born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, just a few days before Obama senior's stay expired on Aug. 9, 1961. Strange. Very strange.
10. To me, this Obama senior immigration form raises more questions than it answers.
NOTE: Can anyone find out what is under the blacked out item where Obama senior listed his wife's name? Thanks.
SHOW ME!
Interesting, another mind-game? As POTUS he wouldn't have needed a birth certificate to obtain that passport, would he?
This is ALL you get to see in Hawaii, the INDEX. Do yourself a favour and read the information, and stop posting opinions without a source:
http://myveryownpointofview.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/its-a-date/
Maybe when the Birther cause was taken over by people who had no clue about fountain pens and manual typewriters WND reconsidered their own position.
There is no PROOF of anything here. Only what those liars Dunham and Obama may have told INS at the time, OR what those liars in the records office in Hawaii may have told them.
It was commonplace for the Hawaii records office to lie about foreigners having been born in Hawaii. It means nothing, without better documentation.
At one time, people born outside Hawaii may have been able to get a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth by deceiving officials, but that's different from the records office actually lying about who was and who wasn't born in Hawaii.
Outside the Certificate of Hawaiian Birth program it hasn't been established that the ordinary birth records of the state were more fraudulent than those of other states or that it was "commonplace" for Hawaiian officials to lie about who was born there.
What reason would Hawaiian health officials have had in the 1960s to lie about where one child not different from thousands of others was born?
You're right that this doesn't prove conclusively that Obama was born in Hawaii, but then what would end all doubt at this point?
It's not a matter of coming up with some incontrovertible evidence that would prove to all where he was born, but a matter of the weight of evidence on each side and this adds a little more weight to the argument that he was born in the United States.
Kenya was/is a very poor, violent place. The scenario presented an opportunity. But not everyone learned their script perfectly...there were members of the extended clan who were present when Onyongo Obama read the kenyan's letters to them. He was the only one who could read, remember?
And that's where the 'he worked for an oil company and married a white woman' came from, as did the 'he had a son in Hawaii'... but what's missing are the DATES!
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