'FAKE' OBAMA BIRTH
CERTIFICATE WAS 'INSIDE JOB', Investigator:
Evidence shows government officials involved, by Bob Unruh, 12/25/16
The chief investigator for Sheriff
Joe Arpaio’s probe of the validity of the image Barack Obama released as
his birth certificate says evidence suggests the involvement of the Hawaiian
government in the alleged fabrication.
WND
reported last week that Arpaio and
his chief investigator on the Obama birth certificate issue, Mike Zullo, held a
news conference to reveal evidence they say shows the document was
fabricated on a computer.
They conclude it is not a copy of
any original Hawaiian document, and while their investigation did not address
whether Obama is a “natural-born citizen” as the Constitution requires for
presidents, or the political implications of such a forgery, they said it
certainly raises many questions going forward.
Zullo showed how the digital images
on the document released by Obama in a White House news conference allegedly
were copied from another document. Zullo said the alleged fraud
apparently involved the Hawaiian government.
His comments came in an
interview on the Hagmann
Report, where he was joined by pastor, author, radio host and
former law-enforcement officer Carl Gallups of the
PPSIMMONS blog, who was deputized by the sheriff for the
investigation.
Zullo explained the investigation
found that some of the images on the Obama document image apparently were
copied from an original birth certificate that belongs to a woman named Johanna
Ah’nee.
But Ah’nee said she obtained a
copy of her birth certificate and kept it locked in her own files until
after the Obama image was released. At about that time, she revealed it to WND
senior writer Jerry Corsi, who was reporting on the dispute.
Zullo told how the investigation
launched by Arpaio at the request of constituents took him to Hawaii. If Ah’nee’s copy of birth
certificate had not been circulated, posted online or otherwise made
available, he concludes that only the Hawaiian government, which had the
document image, could have used it to copy elements onto Obama’s. “These things start to grow hair and
you start to work with it,” Zullo explained. The evidence “pointed to an inside
job,” he said.
Gallups said in the interview that
now is the time for the questions to be expanded. “They manufactured a
document,” he said. “That’s astounding, because now you have to ask why. Why
would people produce a forgery, a fraud, for the president of the United States
and defraud the American people. The answers are not good,” he said.
The
interview:
And
Gallups’ summary of the investigation results: WND
reported last week after the announcement that
investigators are working to transfer the evidence to members of Congress to
determine if any crimes have been committed.
The atmosphere in Washington will be
different under a President Donald 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.
At a news
conference last Thursday, 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.”
Zullo told WND the evidence could be
used in support of 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.
Eventually, just as the
No. 1 bestseller “Where’s The Birth Certificate?” was combining with a challenge at that time from Trump
to force Obama’s hand, Obama held a White House news conference to release a
copy of his birth certificate.
Now 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.”
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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?”
“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.”
Listen
to “Aaron Klein Radio” clip of Joe Arpaio discussing Obama’s birth certificate:
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.
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.
Watch
the video of Kerry’s remarks: 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
http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/fake-obama-birth-certificate-was-inside-job/
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