Michael,
I along with many others originally read those words in the court document filed by Obama and the DNC, which was the Motion to dismiss from I think Sept. 24th or so. This site also states the same information:
Barack Obama claims “particularly serious embarrassment will result from turning over the requested documentation” in the Berg case and has filed a request for dismissal and a protective order. Berg’s filing asks for copies of his birth certificate, citizenship records, passport and travel records, and other documentation proving citizenship in the U.S. as well as other countries.
First, let’s establish that I am no lawyer so don’t depend on my interpretation of the Berg vs. Obama lawsuit as being accurate. I am depending on the interpretations of others who know much more than I, and assuming they have it right. With that out of the way, let’s proceed.
Philip Berg (a Democrat and former deputy attorney general of the state of Pennsylvania) filed his initial lawsuit against Barack Obama August 21, 2008 in Philadelphia Federal Court, claiming Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be President based on citizenship. The first counter filing was from Obama only, but the DNC has since joined in.
Barack Obama and the DNC failed to respond to Berg’s filing of Sep. 15 within the required 30 days, which means they ADMITTED to all the charges in the filing by default. When they did not respond in any manner to any of the requests for information or documention the judge extended their deadline, and they then filed a motion for DISMISSAL and for a PROTECTIVE ORDER.
Their reasoning for requesting a protective order is that revealing the information (birth certificate, passports, citizenship in other countries) would “cause a defined and serious injury” to Obama and/or the DNC. They say revealing these documents raises a “legitimate privacy concern” and the above mentioned risk that “particularly serious embarrassment will result from turning over the requested documentation.” (emphasis added) Then they claim Berg has no standing to ask for it.
http://allthenewsthatfits.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/
Interestingly, I have found the accompanying Berg press release here:
http://www.obamacrimes.info/pressrelease102108.html
The court document had originally been linked at the end of the press release in the form of a pdf. If you scroll to the bottom of the press release, you’ll see that it had been attached.
Funny thing though - if you NOW click on the pdf link, you get this:
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I have a feeling that you already knew that.
The documents were also linked at the time to the Americasright blog and lo and behold, it’s gone from there as well.
Y’all are working hard on purging - aren’t ya?