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Obama's birth certificate definitely fraudulent, posse says
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
July 18th, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
July 18th, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Investigators for an Arizona sheriff's volunteer posse have declared
that President Barack Obama's birth certificate is fraudulent. Members
of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse claimed last March that
there was enough probable cause that the president's long-form birth
certificate, released by the White House in April of last year was a
computer-generated forgery.
Chief Investigator Mike Zullo says that numeric codes on certain parts of the birth certificate indicate that these sections weren't filled out. Sections asking for the race of Obama's father and his field of work or study however were completed.
Zullo says investigators previously didn't know the meaning of codes. These codes were since explained by a 95-year-old former state worker who signed the president's birth certificate.
Zullo said a writer who published a book about Obama's birth certificate and was aiding investigators let them listen in on an interview he conducted of the former state worker.
The Obama campaign has declined comment on Arpaio's allegations. In response, the Arizona Democratic Party said in a statement that Arpaio's investigation is intended to draw attention away from problems within his own agency, such as hundreds of sex-crime cases that the sheriff's office failed to adequately investigate over a three-year period.
Many traditionalists maintain Obama is ineligible to be president because, they contend, he was born in Kenya, while Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama's citizenship, and state officials did again this week.
"President Obama was born in Honolulu and his birth certificate is valid," Joshua A. Wisch, a special assistant to Hawaii's attorney general, said in a statement. "Regarding the latest allegations from a sheriff in Arizona, they are untrue, misinformed, and misconstrue Hawaii law."
Wisch reiterated that "not only are Hawaii's vital records some of the best managed, but they also have some of the strongest restrictions on access to prevent identity theft and fraud."
In response, Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate in an attempt to quell citizenship questions.
Courts have since rebuffed lawsuits over the issue.
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