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Thanks for the ping, Lucy.

That’s the thing I always wondered about...

I wonder if the adoption which went through the courts in Indonesia was ever even reported to the registrar here in the US? That’s the only way I can possibly see the Original BC NOT being amended to his new name of Soetero, and his father being listed as Soetero as well.

I’m adopted so this angle on the controversy is a very interesting one to me. It’s also an angle that may be standing in the way of Obama himself releasing the records - if they indeed were amended from the adoption. Of course, it’s a little different if you’re talking about a President, vs. a lowly old adoptee like me, but courts do NOT like opening those original records. If Obama himself doesn’t go to court to request the unsealing (and even if he DID) he would need a compelling argument to open those files. In the past even those who needed the information to search for potentially life-saving genetic matches for bone-marrow transplants and the like have been denied.

PLEASE NOTE: I obviously don’t believe that Obama has ASKED for those records or ever intends to (and I don’t believe he “requested” them sealed either, but rather that they were automatically sealed via the adoption and the only copy he could get listed Soetero and that would screw up his whole act - hence the reason for the forgery in the first place).

I think THAT is a more likely scenario, and part of the reason his lawyers mentioned the whole “embarrassment” thing - even the President can’t bypass some laws...

All speculation of course, but something I’ve wondered about over the last 2 years...