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Government investigation into Barack Obama’s citizenship (Updated)

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Aug, 2010 in Birth Location, Citizenship, Evidence, FOIA, Featured Articles

Shocking documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act disclose that questions were raised about Barack Obama’s citizenship status, and that an official government investigation was carried out. Here is the text of the FOIA document (see page 38):

Memo to file
A 14 128 294
Sept. 14, 1967

Pursuant to inquiry from Central office regarding the status of the applicants’ [Lolo Soetoro] spouses’ child by a former marriage.

The person in question is a united states citizen by virtue of his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961. He is living with the applicants’ spouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is considered the applicants step-child, within the meaning of Sec. 101(b)(1)(B), of the act, by virtue of the marriage of the applicant to the childs’ mother on March 15, 1965.

W. L. Mix

This also confirms the date of the Soetoro marriage.

Update:

The cover letter with Allen’s FOIA response indicates that there were some responsive documents that could not be released. One of the documents that was released was a copy of Stanley Ann Dunham’s birth certificate. There is little question in my mind that one of the documents that was found but not released is Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

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It’s raining FOIA’s

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Aug, 2010 in Evidence, FOIA, Misc. Conspiracies

Just when you thought it was safe to put the umbrella away, yet another FOIA response, this from Kenneth Allen, asking about President Obama’s stepfather and his records as an exchange student. I include it here for reference. The interesting thing for me is just how much paperwork the federal government keeps. (more…)

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Strunk FOIA results for Obama’s mother

by Dr. Conspiracy on 31. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Evidence, FOIA, Stanley Ann Dunham

Stanley Ann Dunham

The FOIA results of Christopher Strunk’s Freedom of Information Act request for passport applications of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother, were released July 29. A copy of the results appear at the end of this article.

Strunk asked for the “passport applications” of Dunham along with other information specifically about Barack Obama. That latter information is not available under FOIA according to regulation. Strunk sued the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security. (See my article: “What does Strunk know and when did he know it?”)

Now we have a series of documents that are not as helpful as one might hope. The earliest application in the file is a passport renewal from 1968 that references a passport issued in 1965 (prior to Obama’s trip to Indonesia to live with her new husband). However, the Department of State does not have the 1965 document (presumably destroyed in the 1970s when old records were cleared out). So from this material we cannot definitively say that Stanley Ann Dunham’s first passport was in 1965.

There are two things of interest in the 1970 application. First, there is a signed statement by Dunham that she had not naturalized in any other country (addressing the myth that she became an Indonesian citizen) and second she listed her child named “Barack Hussein Obama”, not “Soetoro”.

A curiosity is that after Barack’s name is the word “(Soebarkah)”. Because it is under the name in parenthesis, I am guessing that it is a nickname. “Soebarkah” is an Indonesian surname.

Readers here may know that I submitted my own passport FOIA for Dunham in January of 2009, two months after Strunk. My request differs from that of Strunk in that he asked for “passport applications” and I asked for “passports issued.” While the application records from 1965 (and earlier) were presumably destroyed, the Department of State says that they have passport records since 1925. I still hope, therefore, that my FOIA will conclusively show that Stanley Ann Dunham either had or did not have a passport before 1965.

The Strunk FOIA documents were first reported to be on the Orly Taitz web site, and subsequently  found on Scribd uploaded by Mario Apuzzo. Read the documents following: (more…)

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Changing Subject to Citizen

by Dr. Conspiracy on 15. Jul, 2010 in Citizenship, Evidence

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote “our fellow subjects” (apparently using language from the newly-written Virginia constitution) but then erased it and wrote “citizens” according to a recent issue of Science News. Fascinating.

Ron Polarik, eat your heart out.

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Obama Connecticut Social Security number confirmed

by Dr. Conspiracy on 18. May, 2010 in Evidence

I’ve always thought that the “042-xx-xxxx” Social Security number reported on the Internet for Barack Obama was probably his real SSN, but lacked confirmation. Now we have it.

OC Weekly reporter Spencer Kornhaber typed this number, along with the President’s name and date of birth, in to a Selective Service registration verification database and receive the confirmation. Transfer one item from the plausible to the factual column.

However, I’ve never seen anything remotely plausible that suggests that President Obama ever used any other Social Security number.

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Where Obama was born

by Dr. Conspiracy on 25. May, 2009 in Birth Location, Evidence

Was it in Kenya? Was it in Canada? Was it at home in Hawaii, attested to by one parent?

No. It seems President Obama was born exactly where we always thought he was, at the Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu.

Letter from President Obama

Letter from President Obama

The letter was read aloud at the Health Center’s 100th anniversary gala [link, see Page 6] , attended by such dignitaries as Republican Governor Lingle. Not only do we have President Obama’s own letter stating the place of his birth, but the confirmation of the hospital through their publication and celebration of the fact. See the celebration, Governor Lingle’s proclamation and the reading of the letter from President Obama by Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie. [Update:  the celebration video is no longer online as far as I can tell.]

[The persistent Internet rumor that Barack Obama's half sister Maya claimed that he was born at Queens Hospital, is not true.]

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What does Strunk know, and when did he know it?

by Dr. Conspiracy on 07. Mar, 2009 in Birth Location, Evidence, Lawsuits

US Passport

US Passport

Strunk v. United States Department of State is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)  lawsuit filed late last year. Christopher Earl Strunk since amended his complaint to include the Department of Homeland Security. (The amended complaint file is rather large, so I haven’t uploaded it here.)

The essence of the matter is that Strunk had requested on November 22, 2008 passport and travel records for Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama. The Department of State (DOS) informed Strunk that the travel records were lodged with the Department of Homeland Security providing him with contact information there, and that all records for Barack Obama were exempted from FOIA. DOS further accepted Strunk’s request for information on passport records for Stanley Ann Dunham and assigned him a case number. (more…)

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