I disagree. Had a federal investigation been launched into his Campaign's involvement in creating and distributing a forged COLB, Obama's silence would not protect him. Withholding information from a federal or grand jury investigation is itself a crime. Just ask Bubba.
OBama could have taken the Fifth, but that surely would have raised more questions about his involvement, not less. It would have taken these accusations out of the realm of rumor or conspiracy theory and thrust it into the realm of obstructing justice.
There cannot be anyone else responsible for condoning the forgery, except himself. If caught, however, he could use a "plausible deniability" excuse like, "All that I said to my staff was that I need to get a copy of my BC to show people that I was born in Hawaii. I never told anyone to fabricate one."
It didn't work for Nixon. It didn't work for Clinton, although the "I was out of the loop" excuse did work for Reagan. Given all of the facts in this case, and the attempts to brush them off as "garbage" or to cover them up, ignorance would not be his best defense, nor would it be a confirmation of his innocence.
Of course, his libtard supporters will refuse to believe that The One is capable of doing anything illegal.
The reason that Obama will not be prosecuted for the forgery is because NONE of the people pursuing eligibility suits are going to crawl out of the little, legal boxes they built for themselves, and actually do something about it. Getting them to even "Think outside the box" was met with indifference.
I've spoken about this many times before. They all had their chances to prevent Obama from being elected. I told them how to do it back in June, and a hundred times since, but they chose to ignore it. The "birthers" were split into two camps: one claiming that Obama was a British citizen at birth and getting him to show his original birth certificate was "counterproductive" or a "waste of time." In the other camp are the Orly's and the Berg's who insist that getting to see Obama's original vault birth certificate is the only way to prove that he is not eligible.
If I was on my own and had the resources and freedom to file my own lawsuit, I would have hired a team of experts to corroborate my findings, and I would have obtained all of the evidence needed to prove that a forgery was committed without ever having to see the original birth certificate!
When Obama's COLB was first posted on the Daily Kos on June 12, 2008, my subsequent foray into forensic analysis was motivated by the disbelief in what I saw and read, that so many people were treating what was an obvious forgery to me as a genuine document. I did not know at the time that Obama had refused to release his birth certificate, and my reasons for doing the investigation were not to verify Obama's eligibility.
I did it to confirm what I had been saying about Obama going back to 2004: that he is so dishonest and untrustworthy that he thinks nothing about breaking the law and defrauding Americans just to get himself elected.
So, I know that I'm probably dreaming here when I say that Obama cannot simply play dumb or throw his Campaign, Factcheck, and the entire State of Hawaii under the bus to avoid being linked to document fraud if an investigation were ever launched. The problem is, and has always been, that nobody wants to do that. Nobody wants to pursue the fraud angle which I continue to maintain is the surest path to discovery.
His campaign stated, for the record, that it was Obama, himself, who had obtained the COLB they posted on the Web.
In response to Berg's latest lawsuit, Obama's own lawyers stated, for the record, that Obama had sent a copy of his 2007 COLB to Factcheck for validation, AS WELL AS, allowing Facthceck to come by his campaign headquarters to photograph it.
Hawaii's Health Department also stated, for the record, via its Department Director and Communications Officer, that the State would not have issued Obama's COLB without his personal authorization to do so. Additionally, the Communications Director also stated, for the record, that Obama's Campaign had requested the COLB in June 2008. But, Obama's COLB has a date-stamp of June 2007.
I'd love to see how ZERO would avoid being linked if a formal investigation was launched into the origin of his COLB.
We need to keep people focused on the forgery instead of minimizing its importance. If you look at the history of all of the attempts made to divert attention away from the forged COLB, you'll see a very strange progression.
The first excuse was that "a US Senator would never risk his career and chances to become President by forging his birth certificte," to "If this was a forgery then Hillary Clinton would have said something about it," to "We emailed our image copy to Janice Okubo who said that "It looks just like my birth certificate," to Factcheck saying that "Our experts could find no evidence of forgery," to other "experts" saying the same thing, to other factchecking sites saying, "It looks real to me," to "a real graphics expert" saying that "Polarik is just, plain wrong," to "Forget about the birth certificate and concentrate on the real issues, to "Forget about the birth certificate - Obama's a dual citizen," to "the Ceritification of Live Birth does not have the same info as the long-form," to "the Ceritification of Live Birth was given out to foreign-born children," and finally, "Let's see that 'Vault' birth certificate! (but I don't remember why)."
My next move is to contact Adam Lambert and ask him to sing, "Is Anybody Listening" at Obama's next Press Conference while holding up a WANTED poster with a picture of the COLB.