Microfilm records of INS cards for passengers arriving in Honolulu on foreign files originating around the Pacific rim in 1961 have been examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.”I do not believe anything was mentioned about records missing from a database during the Arpaio presentation. This supposed missing data strikes me as a bit odd. Anyone who had access to the database to delete things could have deleted or modified only a record potentially damaging to Obama rather than deleting an entire week's worth of information.The microfilms that were found for the time period include “NARA Record Group A3573, Reel 184, INA records from July 28, 1961 through Aug. 7, 1961″ and “NARA Record Group A3573, Reel 185, INA records from Aug. 8, 1961 through Aug. 12, 1961.”
However, “Remarkably, all INS records for the week of Obama’s birth, Aug. 1 – Aug. 7, 1961, were missing from the end of Reel 184 and were not discovered anywhere on Reel 185, or any other microfilm reel in the record group,” the report said.
“The National Archives confirmed in a letter written on National Archives stationary that the INS records for foreign flights arriving in Hawaii during the week of Obama’s birth were missing, not only on the microfilm reels examined, but also in the primary database itself,” the report said.
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Very clever if you think about it. Delete a week and there is nothing to compare. Delete one entry and you can compare it to entries before and after. If you change one record you can compare it to other records in the string. If you delete one week there is no way you can compare anything. Very clever.
I seem to recall Sandy Berger stuffing documents down his pants. People who do such things aren't always efficent. If someone messed with the flight records microfilms, they may have had to delete more than one record and just took out a chunk for convenience or out of sloppiness.
Data base must have back up files.