What Dems have shown interest in this trial?
Well it’s obvious whoever hacked into Manning’s database is for, rather than against Obo. They want to know what Manning has on Obo.
The claim being circulated is that one of President Obama’s first acts in office was to issue Executive Order 13489, which some claim was intended to seal away his birth certificate, school records and other evidence that he is not a United States citizen or otherwise unqualified to be President.
However, this executive order is virtually identical to Executive Order 123283, which President George W. Bush issued early in his presidency and which it replaced. That executive order is in turn virtually identical to its predecessor Executive Order 12667 which was issued by President Reagan. All of these orders deal specifically with the National Archive and its role in preserving presidential papers and records. The orders refer ONLY to records generated by the office of the President DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION which have been kept by the National Archive since that institution was created in 1934.
Starting with President Reagan it has been the practice of successive presidents to keep their operating records secret until a later date when they are made public as part of the comprehensive record of their presidency. This concern over the secrecy of White House records clearly originated in the aftermath of the Nixon presidency, which explains the discussion of executive privilege in the orders in question.
What none of these Executive Orders have any authority over are documents which were not generated by the President’s office while he was serving. They do not apply to state records like birth certificates or private records like school transcripts. The President does not have the authority to seal those records by executive order even if he wanted to, and nothing in these Executive Orders even attempts to do so.
This is a classic example of a few people looking at an issue with a conclusion already in mind, and mistakenly assuming that the actions that they are looking at support their preconceived conclusions solely because of some superficial characteristic which may not actually be relevant. In this case the logical fallacy is the assumption that if President Obama is keeping records secret those records must relate to his Columbia University transcripts, his birth certificate or his primary school records because some folks already believe those things to be falsifications which he would want to cover up.
If anyone REALLY wants to see Barack Obama’s original birth certificate, they should recruit a prosecutor who would be willing to convene a criminal Grand Jury investigation into that document for forgery, falsification or fraud and who could then subpoena the original documents from Hawaii without Obama’s permission. The laws of Hawaii [HRS 338-18(b)(9)] state that any Hawaii birth record can be released to a person with a valid court order from a court of competent jurisdiction.