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The media have taken some notice of Barack Obama Sr.'s immigration documents secured through the Freedom of Information Act by Heather Smathers, a young reporter for a start-up weekly, The Arizona Independent. Most mainstream reports focus on Obama's Harvard years – overlooking a key scandal therein – and fully ignore the impact of these documents on the official Obama birth narrative. The Associated Press headline is typical: "Files suggest elder Obama forced to leave Harvard." The AP, like the other media, cites concerns "about his personal life and finances." This is true enough, but only the British press has addressed...

– LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. – Harvard University officials are speaking out on the release of the immigration file on Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Documents uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act request to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, show that Harvard University officials worked with the INS to deny Obama’s student visa extension. An INS investigator, M.F. McKeon, wrote on June 8, 1964: “They (Harvard officials) weren’t very impressed with him and asked us to hold up action on his application until they decided what action they could take...