From the article:
“Does the Social Security Administration ever re-issue Social Security numbers?
“Never,” Daniels said. “It’s against the law for a person to have a re-issued or second Social Security number issued.”
Please check here: http://cpsr.org/issues/privacy/SSNStructure/ for a decent intro to the logic in SSN’s.
And, for more, try this one: http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnvhighgroup.htm
Oh, well that settles it.
I expect Obama to be out of office within the hour due to this conclusive revelation.
Persons in the witness protection program are reissued a SSN, but not one that belonged to someone else previously.