[SvenMagnussen]

THE MYTH OF A MINOR CANNOT RENOUNCE US CITIZENSHIP The issuance of a Certificate of Loss of Nationality (CLN) is at the discretion of the Secretary of State. In other words, the current SoS, Secretary Clinton, may issue a policy statement where a minor under the age of 14 will not be issued a CLN under any circumstance. A more appropriate question is: Would the SoS in 1965 to 1969 issue a CLN to minor who had moved to SE Asia with his mother and adoptive father? And further, let's add to the situation where the adoptive father is a military officer in a foreign army under centralized authoritarian rule. Would Secretary Dean Acheson, SoS 1964 - 1968, issue a CLN to a minor living in a SE Asian country ruled by a military dictator? Answer: YES!

[little jeremiah]

BTTT.

[cynwoody]

Would Secretary Dean Acheson, SoS 1964 - 1968, issue a CLN to a minor living in a SE Asian country ruled by a military dictator? Answer: YES!

The likelihood that such a CLN would stand up if its recipient later chose to disavow it is about the same as the likelihood that Dean Acheson was SoS in the years mentioned. IOW, more typical birfer ravings.

[x]

THE MYTH OF A MINOR CANNOT RENOUNCE US CITIZENSHIP The issuance of a Certificate of Loss of Nationality (CLN) is at the discretion of the Secretary of State. In other words, the current SoS, Secretary Clinton, may issue a policy statement where a minor under the age of 14 will not be issued a CLN under any circumstance. A more appropriate question is: Would the SoS in 1965 to 1969 issue a CLN to minor who had moved to SE Asia with his mother and adoptive father? And further, let's add to the situation where the adoptive father is a military officer in a foreign army under centralized authoritarian rule. Would Secretary Dean Acheson, SoS 1964 - 1968, issue a CLN to a minor living in a SE Asian country ruled by a military dictator? Answer: YES!

You mean Dean Rusk, Secretary of State (1961 to 1969).

To get a CLN, a 6 to 10 year old Barack Obama would have had to go before a US consular or diplomatic official and convince the official that he wanted to renounce his citizenship and that he understood what all that meant.

Put yourself in Obama's mother's shoes. Would she really be more likely to put herself, her husband, and her son through all of that red tape and rigamarole and subject her child to the Indonesian junta's authority, or would she be more likely to just tell the school what it wanted to hear and forget about all the bureaucratic nonsense?

[sometime lurker]

It's an interesting theory, but still goes against the stated US policy. Do you have any evidence that Secretary Dean Acheson personally intervened to issue a CLN to 0bama against the stated policy?