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A key Hawaii official in the dispute over Barack Obama’s birth
certificate – who lifted state restrictions to allow the White House to
present the document to the public – has died in a plane crash.
Loretta Fuddy, the state health department director, was the only
fatality among nine people aboard a Cessna Grand Caravan that went down
at about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday while heading to Honolulu.
Loretta Fuddy
Richard Schuman, president of Makani Kai Air, told NBC that the other
eight people aboard were rescued from the site of the water crash.
KITV-TV in Honolulu reported Fuddy had been on health department
business. Keith Yamamoto, the department’s deputy director, also was
aboard and survived.
Makani Kai officials said it was was the company’s first fatality.
WND has reported since before the 2008 election on the dispute over Obama’s birth documentation.
Fuddy was appointed health director by Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who issued a statement in response to her death.
“Our hearts are broken,” he said,
according to USA Today.
“Loretta was deeply loved and respected. She was selfless, utterly
dedicated and committed to her colleagues in the Department of Health
and to the people of Hawaii. Her knowledge was vast; her counsel and
advice always given from her heart as much as from her storehouse of
experience.”
Recently she had been working on the state’s Obamacare website.
When he took office in 2010, Abercrombie, who claimed to have had a
relationship with Obama’s parents in Hawaii as a fellow student, vowed
to settle the birth certificate dispute once and for all. He finally
gave up, however, insisting he didn’t have the necessary legal
authority.
Read all the arguments in the birth certificate controversy, in “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and check out the special reports, banners and bumper stickers on the subject.
Abercrombie told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser regarding Obama’s birth
documentation: “It actually exists in the archives, written down.”
The London Daily Mail reported,
however, Abercrombie “suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated
birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital
records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.”
Later, Obama asked for copies of the document, and under Fuddy, the
state instantly waived a long-claimed ban on reproducing long-form birth
certificates. On Fuddy’s instructions, copies were produced and
delivered to Judith Corley, a private attorney for Obama.
Fuddy had written to Obama: “We hope that issuing you these copies of
your original Certificate of Live Birth will end the numerous inquiries
received by the Hawaii Department of Health to produce this document.”
Immediately after the delivered copy was posted on the White House
website, however, numerous computer graphics and software experts
declared it fraudulent.
The birth certificate dispute centers on the constitutional
requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen.” Some argue
that even if Obama was born in Hawaii, he was does not qualify because
his father was a Kenyan citizen.
Still a live issue
The one official law enforcement investigation into the issue,
conducted on the orders of Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio,
concluded the document posted by the White House is a forgery.
Arpaio has said the investigation is ongoing and more evidence has been discovered to bolster his team’s conclusion.
WND reported Mike Zullo, the
lead investigator for Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse in Arizona, has contributed evidence to a court case pending before the Alabama Supreme Court.
He has testified that the White House computer image of Obama’s birth
certificate contains anomalies that are unexplainable unless the
document had been fabricated piecemeal by human intervention, rather
than being copied from a genuine paper document.
“Mr. Obama has in fact not offered any verifiable authoritative
document of any legal significance or possessing any evidentiary value
as to the origins of his purported birth narrative or location of the
birth event,” he explained. “One of our most serious concerns is that
the White House document appears to have been fabricated piecemeal on a
computer, constructed by drawing together digitized data from several
unknown sources.”
Zullo also has noted that the governor of Hawaii was unable to
produce an original birth document for Obama, and it should have been
easy to find.
See some of Zullo’s evidence:
More recently,
Grace Vuoto of the World Tribune
reported that among the experts challenging the birth certificate is
certified document analyst Reed Hayes, who has served as an expert for
Perkins Coie, the law firm that has been defending Obama in eligibility
cases.
“We have obtained an affidavit from a certified document analyzer,
Reed Hayes, that states the document is a 100 percent forgery, no doubt
about it,” Zullo told the World Tribune.
“Mr. Obama’s operatives cannot discredit [Hayes],” the investigator
told the news outlet. “Mr. Hayes has been used as the firm’s reliable
expert. The very firm the president is using to defend him on the birth
certificate case has used Mr. Hayes in their cases.”
The Tribune reported Hayes agreed to take a look at the documentation and called almost immediately.
“There is something wrong with this,” Hayes said.
Hayes produced a 40-page report in which he says “based on my
observations and findings, it is clear that the Certificate of Live
Birth I examined is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate,
but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from
various sources.”
“In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have
never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many
respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated,”
he says in the report.
Investigator Douglas J. Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network reported this month
that in October an affidavit was filed in a court case, under seal,
that purportedly identifies the creator of the Obama birth certificate.
He said Douglas Vogt, an author and the owner and operator of a
scanning business who also has an accounting background, invested over
two years in an investigation of the authenticity of document.
Vogt, along with veteran typesetter Paul Ivey, conducted “exhaustive
research of the document provided to the White House Press Corps on
April 27, 2011 – not the online PDF, a critical distinction that must be
understood,” Hagmann said.
“Using their combined experience of 80 years in this realm, they
conducted extensive examinations of the ‘copy’ that was used as the
basis for the PDF document. They acquired the same type of equipment
that was used back in the late 1950s and early 1960s in an attempt to
recreate the document presented as an ‘authenticated copy’ proving the
legitimacy of Barack Obama. Instead, they found 20 points of forgery on
that document and detail each point of forgery in the affidavit,” wrote
Hagmann.
“Even more interesting, Mr. Vogt claims to have identified the
‘signature’ of the perpetrator, or the woman who created the forged
document, hidden within the document itself. Her identity, in addition
to the identity of other conspirators and their precise methods are
contained in a sealed document supplementing the public affidavit.”
Grounds for impeachment
Last month, WND columnist Christopher Monckton wrote that the controversy he calls “Hawaiigate” should be “the central ground of impeachment.”
“First, the dishonesty is shameless and in your face. Mr Obama’s
advisers, once they realized the ‘birth certificate’ was as bogus as a
$3 bill, knew that if they simply went on pretending that $3 bills are
legal tender the hard-left-dominated news media would carefully and
continuously look the other way, pausing occasionally to sneer at anyone
who pointed out that, in this constitutionally crucial respect, the
‘president’ has no clothes,” Monckton wrote.
“Secondly, not one of the numerous agencies of state, as well as
federal government, whose duty was and is to investigate the
Mickey-Mouse ‘birth
certificate’ has bothered even to respond to the thousands of requests for investigation put forward by U.S. citizens.”
He said that in Hawaii last year, he watched “as a senior former
state senator called the police and, when they came, handed over to them
compelling evidence that the ‘birth certificate’ had been forged.”
“The police, correctly, passed the file to the state’s attorney general, a ‘Democrat,’ who did nothing about it,” he said.
“In Washington, D.C., I watched as a concerned citizen from Texas
telephoned the FBI and reported the ‘birth certificate’ as being a
forgery. They said they would send two agents to see him within the
hour. No one came.”
One of the highest profile skeptics
has been billionaire Donald Trump.
Trump said he can’t be certain that Obama is eligible to be
president, and he pointedly noted that a reporter who was poking fun at
the issue admitted he can’t either.
Trump repeatedly has insisted Obama has not documented his eligibility. At
one point, he offered $5 million
to the charity or charities of Obama’s choice if he would release his
passport records and authorize the colleges he attended to release his
applications and other records.
Trump argues that those documents would show whether or not Obama
ever accepted scholarship or other aid as a foreign student, which could
preclude him from being a “natural-born citizen.”
Trump’s conversation with ABC’s Jonathan Karl started with Karl
noting that Trump took on the “not serious” issue of eligibility.
“Why does that make me not serious?” Trump demanded. “I think that resonated with a lot of people.”
Karl replied: “You don’t still question he was born in the United States, do you?”
“I have no idea,” Trump said. “I don’t know. Was there a birth
certificate? You tell me. You know some people say that was not his
birth certificate. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows, and you don’t
know either. Jonathan you’re a smart guy, and you don’t know.”
When Karl admitted he was “pretty sure,” Trump jumped on the statement.
“You just said you’re pretty sure … you have to be 100 percent sure,”
he said. “Jonathan, you said you’re pretty convinced, so let’s just see
what happens over time.”
Read all the arguments in the birth certificate controversy, in “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and check out the special reports, banners and bumper stickers on the subject.
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