According to Canadian law at the time, Eleanor had not lived in Canada long enough to be a Canadian citizen. She could have had access to Canada’s healthcare system via a work visa. And there apparently is no record of her ever voting in Canada. I’ve read about the roll she was on. People would walk around the neighborhoods and collect names for possible voters, and they didn’t have to get the name from the actual person. The lists were verified later.
It’s seems unlikely that someone could be on the Armed Services Committee without passing a thorough security check.
Senators don’t get security checks
How do you think senator obama got a fast tracked black VIP passport issued over a weekend to go on on a committee trip to Russia?
I would believe this was obama’s first U.S. passport and some officious senate staffer called it over to State and then went and got it and paperwork be damned
I just wonder how Rafe got a U.S. passport before he was in govt
“According to Canadian law at the time, Eleanor had not lived in Canada long enough to be a Canadian citizen.”
That is false information. If Eleanor Darragh Wilson married a British subject after abandoning Mr. Wilson, her U.S. expatriate husband in London, England; Eleanor could have qualified to acquire naturalized Canadian citizenship in only 1 year and not 5 years. There also may or may not have been a 1 year time period for a Cuban refugee and his wife. There were also other special exceptions to the 5 year rule. So, it may very well have been possible for Eleanor to have renounced her U.S. citizenship before the birth of Ted Cruz. Furthermore, Eleanor’s citizenship, U.S. or Canadian, does nothing whatsoever to change the fact Ted Cruz was born abroad and was therefore ineligible to acquire U.S. citizenship by any means whatsoever other than naturalization as stated by the U.S. Supreme Court: United State v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. “A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized....”
She could have had access to Canada’s healthcare system via a work visa. And there apparently is no record of her ever voting in Canada. I’ve read about the roll she was on. People would walk around the neighborhoods and collect names for possible voters, and they didn’t have to get the name from the actual person. The lists were verified later.
It’s seems unlikely that someone could be on the Armed Services Committee without passing a thorough security check.
She lived in England for 6 years and became an English citizen there which would fast track her Canadian citizenship. She and her husband would never have be allowed to own a business in Canada if she were not a citizen.
“It’s seems unlikely that someone could be on the Armed Services Committee without passing a thorough security check.”
Although I do not find fault with your first comment in that I do not know enough of the details to say one way or the other, the last one quoted above I can assail. As a former member of the intelligence community, under this administration any security clearance is suspect, ANY!
“It’s seems unlikely that someone could be on the Armed Services Committee without passing a thorough security check.”
That sentence would make Obama smirk.