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Obama data miner faces deportation

We reported here the story of nine employees of  a US Department of Education contractor, who were indicted in federal court in Iowa, for illegally accessing student loan records for Barack Obama. This minor story provided us with a glimpse at what would be in store for election workers in Hawaii, should it be found that they accessed federal databases to peek at Obama’s records.

Mercedes Costoyas, 53, of Iowa City, plead guilty in federal court yesterday (June 16, 2010). With her guilty plea, she could receive up to 6 months in jail and deportation. This was reported in the Quad City Times.

The other 8 defendants have a trial date in July.

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Birther freed pending trial

So reads a headline from the Knoxville News Sentinel.

An alleged Georgia militiaman [Darren Wesley Huff] arrested on federal charges in what authorities describe as a scheme to seize the Monroe County courthouse and make a series of citizen’s arrests for treason has been freed pending trial.

The Associated Press said:

An FBI affidavit says Huff came to Tennessee on April 20 to help a Sweetwater man [Walter Fitzpatrick] charged after he tried to arrest a grand jury foreman who refused to indict President Barack Obama on treason charges.

Also see this article at the Native and Natural Born Citizenship Explored blog.

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Obama will not appear at Lakin court martial

In an order yesterday, Lt. Col. Daniel J. Driscoll investigating officer in the court martial of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, the birther army officer who refused deployment until Obama proves his eligibility, refused to accept President Obama on Lakin’s witness list. Lakin is not going to be able to argue in his defense that the President is not eligible. Not to say “I told you so”, but I told you so. Every military legal expert who has commented on this has said Lakin has no case. Why didn’t Lakin’s attorney, Paul Jensen, tell him that too? The following list of documents was also refused:

  • Puhahau school documents
  • Punahau school records
  • Hawaii State Dept. of Health records
  • Occidental College records
  • Columbia University records
  • Harvard University records

A list of witnesses associated with the above was also denied. However, Dr. Alan Keyes was allowed as a witness, although the defense did not explain to the court the relevance of his testimony. Also unexplained but accepted was Maj. General (retired) Paul Vallely, senior military analyst for Fox News, and contributor to WorldNetDaily.

The investigating officer pointed out that President Obama did not directly give any order to LTC Lakin, and that facially proper orders must be obeyed unless carrying them out would be a criminal act. The court pointed out that the Defense arguments lacked scholarly authority (shoddy work, I would say).  He added:

The Defense … fails to assert a legal basis by which its request might be allowable under the law of political questions, whereby courts will refrain from inserting themselves in matters constituti0nally relegated to coequal branches of Government. The Defense quest to use a military justice forum to invalidate all military authority while undermining the authority of a sitting United States President certainly appears at first blush to be a nonjusticiable political question.

Daniel J. Driscoll,
Investigating Officer

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Trial set for alleged Obama record peekers

The Quad City Times reports that 9 US Department of Education contractors who allegedly accessed President Obama’s student loan records both before and after the election, were arraigned today (May 24) in federal court in Davenport, Iowa.

All plead not guilty. The trial date is set for July 6.

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Alan Keyes endorses Lakin strategy

In a Fox News report we learn that failed presidential candidate Alan Keyes thinks Lt. Col. Terry Lakin is on the right track disobeying orders to force the issue of Obama’s eligibility at a court martial. Keyes said:

It is a matter of common sense that he would be allowed to put on a defense that explains why he did what he did…. And that means he would be allowed to conduct an investigation that would establish his reason.

Not so according to several military lawyers contacted by Fox News:

“He is likely to lose everything and accomplish nothing,” one attorney lamented. “No military judge will say that (obtaining documents) of the president is necessary to prove the charges,” said Philip D. Cave, a Washington attorney and director of the National Institute of Military Justice.

One notes that the Uniform Code of Military Justice, not “common sense” will be the standard by which Lakin will be tried and the only “investigation that would establish his reason” will be a psychiatric examination.

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Lakin charged

Lt. Col Terry Lakin has been formally charged with 4 counts of violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by failing to report for duty.

Lakin disobeyed orders in order to force a court martial which he believes will further his cause of ousting President Obama from office.

LTC LAKIN CHARGED – Chargesheet – apf-14-chargesheet

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Orly Taitz demands to be made Queen of the United States

Queen Orly

“I am uniquely the person to exercise moral power above government, as in Queen of England.”

In an email letter to her massive list of supporters late last night, Orly Taitz has once again pushed out the bounds of credulity by demanding that she take on the role of Queen to resolve what she calls a constitutional crisis. I’m still trying to wade through this 116 page document (which is like pulling teeth — no pun intended) to try to find a logical thread to guide a summary for you. Here’s the best I can put together so far (and this is far more coherent than what she really wrote):

Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq as the only attorney still standing to challenge Obama’s eligibility, and the only attorney who has moved to join her quo warranto case in DC with the bakers dozen state attorneys general challenging the new health care reform, sees herself as the one person uniquely qualified to fix the constitutional crisis in the United States caused by the unconstitutional health care law and Obama’s failure to prove his eligibility. She notes the inaction of the courts, Attorney General Eric Holder and the Congress. Because, in her words, “government has lost all legitimacy” Orly is vetoing the health care reform law, dissolving Congress and calling for new congressional and presidential elections to be held next June 2. Taitz points out that the Queen of England has the authority to dissolve parliament and appoint her own prime minister, and that in this time of constitutional crisis when no legitimate authority exists (since Obama has not proven his eligibility) that it only natural for her to become Queen for a day. It was not clear who she would decide on as interim president until after the new elections.

In line with our policy of not hyperlinking to the Taitz web site because of persistent problems with browser exploits and malware there, I will paste the first few pages of her email here. (Jump down to the section in bold for the queen stuff.) (more…)

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