Although the governor now claims she issued a news release stating Kapi’olani is Obama’s birthplace, the actual release said no such thing, making no reference to Kapi’olani nor any other specific location of Obama’s birth.
At the time of the 2008 election, the release featured the state’s director of health, Chiyome Fukino, who said: “There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawaii 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 Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.
“No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawaii.”
Months later, in July 2009, she added another comment: “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. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
Lingle’s radio statement could add further confirmation that a long-form, hospital-generated birth ceritifcate still exists, despite a February report by Britain’s Sky News which stated: “Authorities in Hawaii have provided an electronic record of Obama’s birth because the paper copy was destroyed in a fire which wiped out much of the state’s archives.”
Ironically, the governor’s pinpointing of the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children as well as her health director’s previous public statements on the matter statement are in apparent violation of Hawaii state law.
In two separate telephone interviews with WND, Janice Okubo, the Health Department’s public information officer, told WND that Hawaii law prohibited her from commenting on the birth records of any specific person.
Okubo cited Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 338-18, which pertains to “Disclosure of Records.”
That section states regarding the release of vital statistics records, “The department shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record.”
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Fukino’s first statement says “...have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record...”
To parse this, Fukino has “seen and verified” _not_ the BC itself, but only that HI DOH “has” the BC “on record.”
Fukino did not say she saw the BC! She only verified that DOH has the "original birth certificate" on record
Then when the ambiguities of her statement were pointed out she comes out with the second statement which says “...have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii...”
To parse this, this time she says she “saw” the vital records “verifying” Obama was born in HI. Did someone open a drawer and point to a folder? It is impossible to tell what records she “saw” or exactly who verified them or by what process were they verified.
She does not say that she, Fukino, verified them only that there were records verifying an HI birth. There could have been a late filing of birth with an affidavit from Grandma or an amended filing string of documents ultimately arriving at “verifying” an HI birth as late as 2007. There could have been an ambiguous initial filing with evidence of a Kenya birth, (like the “Blaine BC”) but which was subsequently “verified” to confirm an HI birth by affidavits in the vital records.
None of Lingle or Fukino's statements can be admitted in court as evidence, although the DOJ shamelessly asked that they be given "judicial notice" IIRC.