July 22, 2011, 10:45 am by Jack Cashill
In a recent article in the Claremont Review of Books, national-security guru Angelo Codevilla makes a provocative claim.“Another photo, published in a Honolulu newspaper in 1959,” he writes, “shows [Ann’s father] Stanley Dunham escorted by uniformed U.S. Navy officers, greeting Barack Obama Sr., as he arrived in Hawaii from Kenya.”
In the photo, Dunham stands next to Obama smiling. Codevilla contends that the CIA might well have assigned Dunham to keep an eye on Obama, an unwitting pawn in the agency’s mission to woo the emerging African elite.
If Codevilla is right, then Jacobs’ book is close to all wrong. In her account, Obama arrives, alone and friendless in Hawaii, not surrounded by 20 well-wishers, chief among them a future father-in-law who was not yet supposed to be there.
If the date of the photo can be verified as 1959, Codevilla is likely right, and the mystery deepens.
One might speculate that it would be most helpful if the national-security guru Angelo Codevilla would provide the original source of that image, with a date of when it appeared as he arrived from Kenya because that information just might assist in the identification of the young woman with the Kenyan student, who appears to have been quite deliberately ignored and the placement of a bunch of false lei are there in an attempt to obscure her closeness to the person on her left, with whom she's quite intimately acquainted...the original as it appeared ON THE PAGE IT APPEARED ON would be most interesting.
