Debbie Schlussel
Posted on 03/31/2011 10:59:54 AM PDT by freespirited
A Colorado Springs “birther,” retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister, has Internet blogs abuzz with what may be an illegal foray into an online Social Security data base and how he obtained a copy of President Barack Obama’s draft registration from 1980.
“Col. Greg Hollister, USAF (Ret.) contacted the Selective Service, falsely impersonated President Obama, improperly registered his own address as President Obama’s address, and by this false impersonation and identity theft he managed to obtain a duplicate registration acknowledgement card with President Obama’s Selective Service information on it,” a blogger posted on gratewire.com last week. “This may violate several federal criminal statutes, and apparently caused the federal record of President Obama’s address with the Selective Service to be altered to show that he lives in Colorado Springs, CO.”
Hollister said Tuesday a private investigator, Susan Daniels of Ohio, gave him what is purported to be the president’s Social Security number. He then accessed the Social Security Number Verification Service to find out to whom it was issued and to access Selective Service documents.
The site allows registered users to verify names and Social Security numbers for employment purposes and warns that using it under false pretenses is a violation of federal law.
“According to the Social Security Administration, that number was never issued,” said Hollister, who challenged whether the president is an American citizen in a lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Jan. 18 without requiring a response from the White House. However, that’s the Social Security number that appears on the Selective Service documents Hollister obtained.
Hollister and others in the birther movement claim Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia and that his birth certificate showing he was born in Honolulu in 1961 is a forgery.
Being born outside the U.S. makes him ineligible to be president, they claim, because the Constitution requires the president to be a natural born citizen.
Hollister said the Social Security number on what he says is Obama’s draft registration begins with the numbers 042, which would be issued to someone born in Connecticut, not Hawaii.
Last week, California attorney Orly Taitz, who has led the legal challenges to Obama’s citizenship, filed an amended complaint in her latest lawsuit demanding Obama’s Social Security records, attaching as an exhibit the draft registration mailed to an address in Colorado Springs, according to the Reality Check Radio Blog.
It is unknown if the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver is investigating Hollister’s use of the data bases and obtaining Obama’s draft records.
Hollister denied breaking any laws.
“I was very meticulous and made sure everything I did was compliant with the law,” Hollister said, noting that he sent Obama an 1099 tax form.
A 1099 is an IRS income reporting form for independent contractors and free-lancers. Hollister did not explain how sending that to Obama complies with federal laws on the use of Social Security data.
Daniels said her doubts about Obama’s citizenship have only been reinforced by what Hollister found out.
Hollister said he started questioning Obama’s citizenship because as a retired Air Force officer he is subject to recall to active duty until he dies and he needs to be sure that Obama has the authority to give those orders.
Debbie Schlussel had this in 2008.
You know, I think “birther” is a term ascribed so as to divert attention from what they are asking for. A “birther” would be someone who is in favor of birth, which pretty much everyone has gone through, if their mother allowed them to. I am a “birther”, in favor of birth. I don’t know of anyone who is against birth, per se. There are those in favor of abortion, but they come to favor birth eventually when they want to actually have children. No, “birther” does not describe people who want to see a birth certificate. That is why there is no “birther movement.”
I liked the term I saw yesterday, applied to Donald Trump, and that is “Proofer”, someone who is in favor of proof. I am a “Proofer”, in that I want to see proof. I am asked for proof lots of times. I’m not a “Poofter”, that is something else entirely, and not even on the same subject. I wonder if there is a “Poofter Movement”. Hmmmm.
Anyway, I have to prove USA citizenship, because I am white and speak with an American accent. But if someone is Mexican, it would be profiling to ask to see proof of citizenship. And the same for Presidents. Sarah Palin will be disqualified if she doesn’t show hers, and already they are trying to poke holes in Trump’s birth certificate, but Obama, well, you racist conservatives are profiling again. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfVerification.aspx
you can check here. all you need is the SS number and birthday. i don’t see anything stating a citizen can’t use this.
the other guy (schlussel) did his via Freedom of Information Act.
Remember a few years back when twits like NBC’s David Gregory were demanding George Bush’s NationalGuard records?
If you read Jack Cashill's book, the thesis of which is that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Obie's books, the descriptions of the "rich white girlfriend" pretty much fit Diana Oughton to a "T". She was Ayers's girlfriend 'til she blowed herself up, leaving Ayers to settle for Dohrn.
Um, there's an officer sitting in the brig right now that might disagree with that assumption.
I know and his book is on my reading list.
Probably one of Bill Ayres dreams, not Obama’s.
That was a tipping point for me too.
Broke “the law?”. More like busting a fraud...
Moreover, most of what gets called federal law isn’t law at all because it is unconstitutional.
Or after......
What he doesn’t want revealed, IMO, is that his birth certificate is for one Barry Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia. It is an amended birth certificate after adoption. He is living under an assumed name, Barack Hussein Obama. He has never legally changed his name.
Didn’t he attend Occidental under the name Barry Soetoro? Sometime after that, he decided upon the identity of Barack Hussein Obama. Whether he was given that name at birth, in Kenya (as so many people claimed when he was running for Senate in Illinois) or Hawaii, it doesn’t matter now: He is living under a non-legal assumed name.
If he broke the law, I’d consider it to have been done in service to his country, so long as he didn’t use the information to get some personal gain. If the Congress, the States, and the courts have abdicated their responsibilities under the Constitution, then it falls to the citizens to pick up the flag and carry on. In the face of a hostile government that is no longer representative of the will of the people, then a few laws must be broken, that is inevitable.
Better to violate Obama’s privacy rights in order to settle the issue than to let things devolve further and risk more desperate recourse.
Are you implying that he had boyfriends prior to meeting the first wookie?
“Should be: Impersonating someone who is already impersonating a President...”
Yup, if Obama’s SSN and name are fake, then whose identity exactly is the Colonel supposed to have stolen?
Sounds way too much like poofer, so it will never catch on.
Not me, but there was that Larry Sinclair guy.
Debbie Schlussel
“Documenter” is what I use. A bit long but it has an official/legalistic ring to it.
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