Not their responsibility, on several levels.
However, I would LOVE to have a top-tier council of generals call the TOTUS aside in a private meeting:
“Look, sir, we now have 2,326 officers and 8,772 enlisted members, all of whom were about to ship over to Afghanistan and Iraq, who have instead filed suit questioning your qualifications to serve as commander in chief. We can’t cancel all of their orders, like we did with Major Cook, and now we’re no longer able to support our overseas commitments due to a personnel shortage. Would you please make public that damned birth certificate, sir, so we can do our jobs?”
After Zero refuses, a couple of SEALS go jogging from Pearl Harbor at 3 a.m. and — surprise, surprise — end up right in front of the Birth Records Office in Honolulu.
You said: ... a couple of SEALS go jogging from Pearl Harbor at 3 a.m. and — surprise, surprise — end up right in front of the Birth Records Office in Honolulu.
Unfortunately, I think a criminal act is going to be the only way the document will be made public, if it exists at all. Either a break-in or a kidnapping and extortion plot against an official at the records office. Either way it’ll be a huge problem and the one to blame will be the one individual that refuses to release it and end the mystery.
I just want the truth. And then I want justice to be done.
“However, I would LOVE to have a top-tier council of generals call the TOTUS aside in a private meeting:
“Look, sir, we now have 2,326 officers and 8,772 enlisted members, all of whom were about to ship over to Afghanistan and Iraq, who have instead filed suit questioning your qualifications to serve as commander in chief. We can’t cancel all of their orders, like we did with Major Cook, and now we’re no longer able to support our overseas commitments due to a personnel shortage. Would you please make public that damned birth certificate, sir, so we can do our jobs?”
THis would be one example of a political handling of the problem. And if he refuses, publicizing the meeting and the refusal would be the next step. It would give the issue “standing” in the court of public opinion. At some point, that standing would pressure Congress or the courts to take it up.