Washington, D.C., August 31, 2010. Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney has supplied an affidavit in support of Army Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who faces trial on October 13-15. The retired Air Force three-star is the highest ranking officer yet to lend public support to LTC Lakin. His affidavit acknowledges widespread concerns over the President’s Constitutional eligibility and demands the President release his birth records or the court authorize discovery.
McInerney’s sworn affidavit was filed in Court-Martial in support of Lakin’s motions for subpoenas for all of the president’s school records, and for a deposition of the custodian of Obama’s birth records in the possession of the State of Hawaii. The Judge has set a hearing in the Court Martial on these motions for this coming Thursday, September 2nd at 11:00 at Ft. Meade, Maryland. All court proceedings are open to the public. The courthouse is located within Ft. Meade at 4432 Llewellyn Avenue, which is on the corner of Llewellyn and Ernie Pyle Road. At the first intersection after the Reece Road gate, you should turn left on to Ernie Pyle Road. The courthouse is approximately 1 mile south of the intersection of Reece Road and Ernie Pyle Road.
LTC Lakin is a physician, and is in his 18th year of service in the Army. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He has been recognized for his outstanding service as a flight surgeon for year-long tours in Honduras, Bosnia and Afghanistan. He was also awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan and recognized in 2005 as one of the Army Medical Department’s outstanding flight surgeons. In March of this year, he announced in a video posted on YouTube that he would refuse to obey orders until receiving proof of the President’s eligibility. So far, more than 225,000 people have viewed that video.
While there is no evidence he was born overseas, President Obama has not released sufficient documentation to prove his place of birth, conclude the authors of a recently released book.
An investigation by the authors found the sole birth documentation released by the president, a Certification of Live Birth, or COLB, generated in 2007 by the state of Hawaii, does not definitively establish Obama’s origin.
The investigation also debunked various claims that Obama was born in Kenya.
With nearly 900 endnotes, the book, “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists,” was written by WND senior reporter Aaron Klein and researcher Brenda J. Elliott.
After the release of a COLB, made available online during the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama and his team then claimed, and continue to claim, that Obama had released his birth certificate.
Obama said in an interview aired yesterday with NBC “Nightly News,” “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”
The State Department is maintaining a “counter-misinformation” page on an America.gov blog that attempts to “debunk a conspiracy theory” that President Obama was not born in the United States, as if the topic were equivalent to believing space aliens visit Earth in flying saucers.
However, in the attempt to debunk the Obama birth-certificate controversy, the State Department author confirmed Obama was a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S. from 1961 to 1963 and a dual citizen of Kenya and the U.S. from 1963 to 1982, because his father was a Kenyan citizen when Obama was born in 1961.
In a number of court cases challenging Obama’s eligibility, dual citizenship has been raised as a factor that could compromise his “natural born” status under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. The cases argue dual citizenship would make Obama ineligible even if documentary evidence were shown the public, such as the hospital-issued long-form birth certificate that indicates the place of his birth and the name of the attending physician.
The entry “The Obama Birth Controversy” was written by Todd Leventhal, identified as the chief of the Counter-Misinformation Team for the U.S. Department of State. The office appears to have been established “to provide information about false and misleading stories in the Middle East,” as described in a biography of Leventhal published on the U.S. Public Diplomacy website.
As Michelle Obama told an “LGBT” group about her husband’s support for their lifestyle — pledging to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, end “homophobia,” and revoke “Don’t Ask Don’ Tell” — she lets slip a little nugget about which country the president really considers home.
A Vermont-based political action committee is targeting an incumbent California congressman for being a friend to “birthers” and backing “those right-wing conspiracy theorists.”
Democracy for America, a PAC founded by former Governor Howard Dean and dedicated to making the Democratic Party more “progressive,” sent out an e-mail asking supporters to help defeat “Tea Party Republican John Campbell,” who the e-mail describes as “an example of the worst Republicans have to offer the country.”
“You know those right-wing conspiracy theorists demanding to see President Obama’s birth certificate?” asks the e-mail sent out by Matt Blizek, field director at Democracy for America. “Well, these so-called ‘birthers’ have a representative in Congress backing them up – California’s John Campbell.”
The PAC’s criticism stems from Campbell’s co-sponsorship of H.R. 1503, known as the Presidential Eligibility Act, in March of last year.
How many different name is President Obama legally authorized to use?
Is his legal name Barack Hussein Obama II, Barack Hussein Obama (without the designation “II” indicating Barack Obama Jr.), Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama Soebarkah?
All of these names appear in various documents produced since 2008 regarding Obama’s life story and his passport records.
The White House has refused to release Obama’s long-form birth certificate filed at his birth that lists the hospital where he was born and the name of the physician who attended the birth. Also, the White House has refused to disclose to the public his passport and travel records as maintained by the U.S. State Department.
The White House released this week a video displaying Obama’s passport, but the name displayed does not match the name on the Certification of Live Birth, or COLB, prominently displayed on websites favorable to Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Play the video and you will not only get to see Barack Obama greeting new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the Oval Office with some small talk, but, if you stay tuned for the mailbag segment, you’ll get to see one of those personal Obama documents you’ve always wondered about.
No, it’s not his birth certificate.
It’s his passport.
Now, why do you suppose the White House is eager to show off Obama’s passport and explain he really does get it stamped when he goes from country to country – just like ordinary Americans?
I strongly suspect it represents a chance for him to show off what it says inside the document – that he was born in Hawaii in 1961.
With the latest poll showing 58 percent of Americans not believing the president’s nativity story, I think this was a deliberate piece of government-sponsored propaganda.
What would interest me more than his current passport, which, we are told, had to be “renewed” as soon as he entered office, would be two things:
his previous passport records, showing where he traveled and when;
The original accusation and the retraction both came from one of the “experts” CNN offered on the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who faces a court-martial in a few weeks for refusing to deploy because the president refused to document his eligibility to be commander-in-chief.
An initial combative interview with Lakin was done by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who portrayed Lakin negatively. It was a followup shortly later by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin in which the problems arose.
Cooper mentioned Lakin had served “honorably” in his 18-year career.
Toobin then launched a rant.
“You know, these people are bigots, they’re racists, they’re freaks, they’re lunatics, these are not rational players in American politics,” he said on air.
Just as Richard Nixon lost the battle of Watergate because of cover-up and stonewalling, Barack Obama has lost the battle over his constitutional eligibility for the same sins.
Not only is it a winning issue, it is the only issue that can effectively undo the nightmare of the Obama era in one fell swoop.
There would be no need for repealing Obamacare if it turns out his presidency was a sham from the beginning.
There would be no need to wait until Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan retire or die to see them replaced on the Supreme Court if it turns out his presidency was a sham from the beginning….
Floyd Brown, Floyd Reports
Chris Matthews trots out all the old lines intended to protect Obama from our questions. But I have to feel satisfaction, because clearly we are getting under their skin.
1. The announcements in the newspapers are automatically generated when a parent(or grandparent) files via mail a notice of home birth in Hawaii. They prove only that someone sent in a postcard with no verification to the State of Hawaii claiming an at home birth. But Obama has been clear. He was born in a hospital. Sometimes they tell us Queens Hospital, sometimes they tell us Kapi’olani hospital, but they always say a hospital.
2. If you are born in a hospital there are records. It is called a long form birth certificate. Just release it and we go away. The form you show on camera Chris can be produced by hundreds of Hawaiians born in Japan for example. This form was routinely given to Hawaiian children born outside of the US. Hawaii didn’t even accept it a proof of native birth when Obama was elected.
3. Even if Obama is a US Citizen, it doesn’t mean he is a “Natural Born Citizen.” The US Constitution is clear, only citizens born on US territory can run for president. This is what keeps Arnold Schwarzenegger from running.
4. Finally, if he became an Indonesian citizen in the 1960’s he cannot be a US Citizen. The law doesn’t allow it. This is why his school records must be released. Did he get a scholarship as a foreign exchange student? What was his status when he traveled to Pakistan? Did he use a US passport?
The Founders considered this an important issue because they wanted to protect America from a president with dual allegiances. Only the presidency has these requirements. If Obama knew he wasn’t born here then he needs to go to prison for fraud. He needs to be impeached. He needs to end this constitutional crisis.
Chris you need to have your researchers put something better on your teleprompter if you want to rebut our arguments. The same old rehash that doesn’t answer the questions of citizenship just don’t cut it.
And calling us all racists is just getting boring.
