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Neither New Jersey nor Calero had the Director of the state Health Department which issued the Birth Certificate vouch for its authenticity, twice

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen.

Here are the two statements:

October 31, 2008

“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record.

“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.

July 27, 2009

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen.

As is often the case, what she did not say may be more important than what she did. She did not say that she or the Department "vouched for" the CoLB that was posted on Daily KOS, Fight the Smears, etc., nor any of the information on it, the first time. The second time she said that the origingal vital records, perhaps not that original birth certificate, verified that he was born in Hawaii. Nor did she say, either time, that the state DoH had even issued it. In fact she never even mentioned it.