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Evidence that the document presented to the American public by Barack
Obama as his Hawaiian birth certificate is fake soon will be heading to
members of Congress, and the difficult discussions over what crimes may
have been committed and what should be done could begin soon.
The atmosphere in Washington will be different under Trump, who will
be inaugurated Jan. 20, since he publicly questioned Obama’s birth
certificate in 2011. During this election season, he stated he
now believes Obama was born in Hawaii.
But at a
news conference Thursday, Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio,
the only law enforcement officer to formally investigate the
allegations of fraud, presented evidence that the image of the birth
document posted by the White House was fraudulent.
One thing seems certain: The evidence will have to go elsewhere for
action to be taken, since Arpaio, known as “America’s toughest sheriff”
and innovator of such jail amenities as pink underwear and surplus Army
tents in the desert heat for jail inmates, is leaving office Jan. 1
after more than two decades serving Phoenix-area residents, who had
asked him for the birth certificate investigation.
His replacement already has stated,
CBS News reported, that he “will cut off Arpaio’s investigation into Obama’s birth certificate.”
Mike Zullo, Arpaio’s lead investigator since 2011 on the birth
certificate issue, told WND he wants to get the evidence to members of
Congress for evaluation. It could support a Presidential Transparency
Act, which would give secretaries of state across the nation the
authority to investigate candidates with suspect qualifications.
“This is what we have learned. Every secretary of state is powerless
to investigate a candidate,” he told WND. “They have to take everything
on face value.”
That means a candidate whose qualifications are questioned cannot be
reviewed by state secretaries of state, who run the elections
Zullo told WND that could be a very easy fix for the controversy that developed around Obama’s document.
The issue is that the U.S. Constitution requires the president to be a
“natural-born citizen” but does not define the term. Scholarly works
cited by the Founders defined it as a citizen at birth, born in the
country to two citizens of the country, or merely the offspring of two
citizens of the country.
The birth certificate Obama displayed on the White House website as
“proof positive” of his eligibility states he was born in Hawaii to an
American mother and a Kenyan father.
Some immediately pointed out alleged anomalies, questioning its
validity, while others argued it also could prove his ineligibility
because his father was not a citizen. Some of the lawsuits over the
issue argued Obama was a dual citizen at birth through his father,
contending the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from
qualifying as natural born citizens.
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Eventually, just as
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was combining with a challenge at that time from billionaire
businessman Donald Trump to force Obama’s hand, Obama held a White House
news conference to release a copy of his birth certificate.
Now, what has been described as the only official law enforcement
investigation ever done into the Obama birth certificate has concluded
it is “not authentic.”
See a video prepared by the investigators and released at a news conference on Thursday:
Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., WND senior staff writer and author of “Where’s
the Birth Certificate?” was credited by sheriff’s officials with
contributing to the investigation.
Corsi said Zullo and Arpaio “have done the United States a heroic
service demonstrating by forensic analysis that the long form birth
certificate produced in a White House news conference on April 27, 2011,
as Barack Obama’s authentic birth certificate is a forgery.”
“The nine points of forgery between the Johanna Ah’nee birth
certificate and Obama’s [long-form birth certificate] prove convincingly
that the Ah’nee birth certificate was the source document from which
the Obama LFBC was created.”
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Jerome Corsi
Corsi said Arpaio’s five-year effort “vindicates the extensive
research WND conducted over years to bring this issue to the attention
of the American public.”
The sheriff’s video said there were nine images on the Obama birth
certificate that appear to be identical to, and copied from, another
birth certificate issued in Hawaii just days after his birth.
That certificate belongs to Johanna Ah’nee.
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The copied items include the word “Honolulu,” “Oahu” twice, three
different Xs and two time stamps. The identical nature of the Xs raised
serious questions since they would have been applied to original
documents by moving a typewriter carriage and roller at the time.
Explained the investigator on the video:
Doesn’t it just make sense that Alvin
Onaka’s stamp and the April 25th date stamp were lifted from someplace
also? Ask yourself this question. If anyone presented you with a
document in your life that was this suspect would you readily accept it
or would you begin an intense vetting, be it a house title, a car title,
a piece of currency, anything? Would you accept something this suspect
if presented to you in your life? If you answered no, then ask yourself a
second question, don’t the American people have a right to vet the
documents that they are presented by public officials.
One of the experts who assisted in the investigation was Reed Hayes, a
court-qualified handwriting and document examiner, who runs a business
in Hawaii. He is on the board of the Scientific Association of Forensic
Examiners and has been in business nearly 40 years.
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Forlabs, an Italian company that specializes in extracting information from multimedia files, also produced the results.
“We had two experts from two countries in separate disciplines of
forensics that came to one conclusion: Barack Obama’s long form birth
certificate it not authentic,” the report said.
During the news conference, Zullo quoted from the investigation
by Hayes: “The (nail in the coffin) that proves that Certificate of Live
Birth is inauthentic is the exact lineup of numerous entries on both
[certificates].”
He said the experts likened the evidence to being as reliable as a fingerprint.
During his investigation, Zullo said he encountered unusual
opposition from officials who would normally be expected to cooperate
with investigators, such as hospital officials, state officials, and
others in Hawaii.
He said that just increased his suspicions.
Arpaio said he, like Zullo, at the outset was ready to verify the document as valid and drop the issue.
“Five years ago I said one thing, show us the microfiche, the birth certificate and we’ll all go home,” he said.
But he couldn’t because of the evidence.
He confirmed plans to turn the results over to the federal government and Congress.
“Maybe some members of Congress will hold some hearings, open to the
public regarding this matter. … If they can hold hearings … on
underinflated footballs, why can’t you hold one on this?” he said. “Look
at our evidence, just look at it.”
He said at the news conference that he was withholding some “sensitive” information so that the next step could be taken.
But he called it a “fake, fake birth certificate.”
The evidence
The sheriff’s office concluded: “It is the opinion of the Maricopa
County Sheriff’s Office that the birth certificate on your right,
belonging to Johanna Ah’nee, was in fact used as a source document in
the digital creation of Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate.”
The video notes nine points of “forgery.”
“What are the odds that two stamps in two separate boxes stamped by
hand … days apart would have the exact same angle?” the investigators
ask.
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“It should be pointed out these stamps were looked at by two separate
document examiners in two forensic disciplines on two continents,” the
video explains.
WND reported when the news conference was announced
how the issue had badgered Obama from before his first inauguration
until well into his second term. Now, apparently, it’s raining on his
legacy.
WND reported Obama explained he decided to release it because the Internet “chatter” was becoming a “distraction.”
At the time,
the Washington Times
described Obama as “visibly frustrated” and noted that a recent CBS
News-New York Times poll showed 45 percent of registered Republican
voters believe Obama was not born in the U.S.
President Obama
But while the issue became known in liberal and left-leaning circles
as the biggest “conspiracy” theory of all time, some document experts
questioned the validity of the birth certificate Obama released. The
question was posed, unsuccessfully, to the U.S. Supreme Court many
times.
In 2012, Arpaio held a news conference
that concluded there was probable cause to believe the document Obama
released as an official government document is a computer-generated
forgery.
Arapaio, known for his strict enforcement of immigration laws,
commissioned the investigative team after local citizens presented him with a petition expressing concern that Obama might not be eligible for Arizona’s presidential ballot.
The sheriff even deputized preacher, pastor, author, radio host and former law enforcement officer Carl Gallups of the
PPSIMMONS blog in his pursuit of the truth.
“This investigation and its forensic conclusions in my opinion will
vindicate a lot of people. That vindication includes the sheriff and his
investigator of course but also president-elect Donald Trump. It also
vindicates millions of Americans who dared to ask questions about this
nefarious birth certificate and have been lampooned and marginalized by
certain members of the press and other operatives for doing so. The
investigation also vindicates those in the press who did have the guts
to speak to this and to spend time investigating it, like WND,” Gallups
said.
“I have a feeling that this matter is not over. Not by a long shot. I
cannot imagine that authorized federal authorities will now not step in
and investigate this matter to its conclusion.”
Investigators at that time they believed forgers committed two
crimes. First, they said it appeared the White House fraudulently
created a forgery that it characterized as an officially produced
governmental birth record. Second, the White House fraudulently
presented to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public
at large a forgery represented as “proof positive” of President Obama’s
authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate.
The investigators also said they had developed credible evidence that
Obama’s Selective Service card was a forgery, based on an examination
of the postal date stamp on the document. Also, records of Immigration
and Naturalization Service cards filled out by passengers arriving on
international flights originating outside the United States in the month
of August 1961, examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.,
were missing records for the week of President Obama’s birth.
Arpaio said then a “continuing investigation” was needed, and his investigators set to work.
‘Preposterous notion’
WND reported in 2015 when the issue was raised in a CNN interview in which anchor Jake Tapper excoriated Arpaio for questioning Obama’s document.
See the interview:
On CNN’s “The Lead,” Tapper said, “You’ve trafficked in this rather
preposterous notion that Obama was not born in the United States and
that he may have forged his birth certificate that he released.”
He continued, “Why would you risk your credibility on issues you care
about – like illegal immigration, like law enforcement – by getting
involved in this nonsense?”
“What do you mean ‘risk’?” Arpaio asked. “I’m the chief law
enforcement officer elected by the people. I have a right to investigate
and speak out. I’m not talking about where he came from. I don’t care
where he came from. We’re working on a fraudulent, forged government
document. That’s what we are doing.”
Tapper interjected, “You’re maintaining that the birth certificate
that the president of the United States revealed and released to the
public, you’re maintaining that that is fraudulent?”
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“That’s right,” Arpaio responded.
The CNN host asked, “Is there anyone, any credible law enforcement
person outside of you and your organization and your contractors, who
has any agreement with you on this?”
“No, they haven’t looked at it,” Arpaio said. “What, are you kidding?
I’m probably the only law enforcement official who has looked into it.
Nobody looks into it. They shy away from it.”
Once again, a flustered Tapper interrupted: “Because the president was born in Hawaii.”
“I don’t care where he was born,” Arpaio replied. “I’m talking about a
fraudulent government document, a birth certificate. That’s all I’m
concerned with. That’s a violation of the law.”
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Zullo has noted that Hayes, a document examiner who has served as
expert witness for Seattle law firm Perkins Coie – the firm that flew an
attorney to Honolulu to personally deliver two paper copies of the
birth certificate to the White House – has concluded in a signed
affidavit that the document posted on the White House website is
“entirely fabricated.”
Also, at the time Obama was born, only a short time after Hawaii was
admitted as a state, there were a number of ways a Hawaiian birth
certificate could have been obtained without the person having been born
in Hawaii.
Americans skeptical
Six years into Obama’s administration, WND reported a poll revealed
nearly one-quarter of American adults didn’t even believe he’s a U.S.
citizen, let alone a “natural-born citizen,” and another 17 percent were
unsure.
Rasmussen Reports found 41 percent of Republicans believed Obama is
not an American citizen, a belief shared by 21 percent of those who are
unaffiliated and 11 percent of Democrats.
“Just over 20 percent of Republicans and unaffiliated adults also are
not sure, but only 7 percent of those in the president’s party share
that doubt,” the polling organization said in a report titled
“Have We Got A Conspiracy for You – 9/11? JFK? Obama’s Citizenship?”
Overall, 23 percent said the theory that Obama is not an American
citizen is true, and another 17 percent said they weren’t sure. Sixty
percent reject the theory as false.
Ironically, in recent months it’s been, Obama, his wife Michelle,
Secretary of State John Kerry and even his former Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, who have raised the issue over and over.
It
was during an appearance in Nairobi, Secretary of State John Kerry said
he thanked the Kenyan president for giving America “a president of the
United States” – a comment alluding to the contested issue of where Obama was born.
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Kerry told Kenya’s foreign minister
he had a conversation with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta concerning
the Olympic Games in Rio and President Obama’s birthplace:
I had the pleasure of beginning that meeting [with
Kenyatta], as I want to begin this press conference this afternoon, by
congratulating Kenya on something no nation’s athletes have ever before
accomplished, and that is to win both the men’s and the women’s marathon
races at the Olympic Games. Absolutely extraordinary. When I mentioned
that to President Kenyatta, he promptly said to me, “Well, we also had a
hand in helping you win a silver because the person who won came from
Kenya.” (Laughter.)
“And I said, “Actually, Mr. President, you did better than a silver
and a gold. You gave us a president of the United States.” (Laughter.)
So you can see we had a very friendly and positive beginning to the
conversation.
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Obama himself
raised the question at the Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia, during an address in which he urged Americans to elect
Clinton.
“You know, there’s been a lot of talk in this campaign about what
America’s lost – people who tell us that our way of life is being
undermined by pernicious changes and dark forces beyond our control,”
Obama said. “They tell voters there’s a ‘real America’ out there that
must be restored. This isn’t an idea that started with Donald Trump.
It’s been peddled by politicians for a long time – probably from the
start of our Republic.
“And it’s got me thinking about the story I told you 12 years ago
tonight, about my Kansas grandparents and the things they taught me when
I was growing up. They came from the heartland; their ancestors began
settling there about 200 years ago. I don’t know if they had their birth
certificates, but they were there.”
The mention of “birth certificates,” which prompted laughter and cheers from the crowd, was a
deviation from the president’s prepared remarks,
and comes just two nights after his wife, first lady Michelle Obama,
brought up the issue of her husband’s citizenship and faith during her
speech to the DNC.
At that time,
Michelle Obama said
one of her jobs in the White House was to teach her daughters “to
ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith.”
She was referencing the challenges to her husband’s constitutional qualification for office as a “natural born citizen.”
Hillary Clinton
“went birther” during a campaign appearance in Charlotte, North
Carolina when she tweeted, “Someone who has never forgotten where he
came from. And Donald, if you’re out there tweeting: It’s Hawaii.”
–Hillary on @POTUS
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Among the many records the Obama camp has refused to release are the
marriage license of his father (Barack Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann
Dunham), name-change records (Barry Soetero to Barack Hussein Obama),
adoption records, records of his and his mother’s repatriation as U.S.
citizens from Indonesia, baptism records, Noelani Elementary School
(Hawaii) records, Punahou School financial aid or school records,
Occidental College financial aid records, Harvard Law School records,
Columbia senior thesis, Columbia College records, record with Illinois
State Bar Association, files from his terms as an Illinois state
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