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FAC Filed in Lawsuit...Obama's Bogus SSN;Newly Uncovered Docs Show Obama Lied About Columbia U
ObamaRelease YourRecords ^ | Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:29 PM

Posted on 03/24/2011 10:24:54 PM PDT by Red Steel


As reported here and here, attorney Orly Taitz filed a Freedom of Information violation suit regarding Obama's questionable social security number reserved for Connecticut applicants and the continued stonewalling by the Social Security Administration on numerous FOIA requests. Attorney Taitz just filed her First Amended Complaint in the case. Attorney Taitz reports that she has obtained new documents that prove Obama lied about his days at Columbia University. Full complaint with exhibits embedded below...


Via Attorney Taitz: First Amended Complaint submitted today in DC. Newly uncovered documents show that Obama was defrauding the nation re his Columbia university records, he was there only 9 months, more evidence of Social Security fraud by Obama

FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT

JURISDICTION

Current complaint filed under federal statute 5USC § 552 (a) (4)(B) and the respondents are officers of the U.S. government

PLAINTIFF

Plaintiff herein is Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ, President of “Defend Our Freedoms foundation”, filing pro se


RESPONDENT

Michael Astrue, in his official capacity as the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration

Plaintiff brings this action pursuant to the provisions of 5 USC §552 known as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and in particular 5 USC§552 (a)(4)(B)

ALLEGATIONS

1. Plaintiff, Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ is the president of the “Defend Our Freedoms” foundation (hereinafter foundation) and an attorney, who represented this foundation.

2. Both the Plaintiff and the foundation are dedicated to the preservation of the Constitutional rights and freedoms of the U.S. citizens.

3. Plaintiff works closely with a number of licensed investigators.

3. Intervener received a report and an affidavit from a licensed investigator and former elite Anti Communist Proliferation and Anti Organized Crime unit of the Scotland Yard officer Neil Sankey. Mr. Sankey’s report showed that Barack Hussein Obama (hereinafter “Obama”) is linked in the national databases to some 39 different Social Security numbers and multiple addresses. None of these numbers was issued in the state of Hawaii. The number that he used most often since around 1980 and still uses today, while residing in the White House, is a Connecticut Social Security number 042-68-4425. According to Lexis Nexis and Choice Point this number was originally issued to an elderly individual born in 1890, who resided in Connecticut, but this number was later assumed by Obama and used by him from around 1980-1981.

4. The first three digits of the Social Security number signify the state. 042 signifies the state of Connecticut.

5. Obama was never a resident of Connecticut.

6. In March-April of 1977 when this number was issued to another individual in Connecticut, Obama was a 16 year old student, residing with his grandparents in Hawaii.

7. To confirm such findings Taitz obtained an opinion of yet another licensed investigator, Susan Daniels, who attested to the fact that the national databases show multiple social security numbers associated with the name Barack Obama, among them Connecticut Social Security number 042-68-4425 used most often. She, also, found that this number was originally assigned to an individual born in 1890. Later, the same number was associated with birth dates 04.08.1961 and 08.04.1961. Dates of 04.08.1961 and 08.04.1961 suggest existence of some documents, created using an European system of dating: Day, Month, Year, versus the American system of Month, day, year. Exhibit 4


8. Obama’s selective service certificate verification, readily available on the world wide web, shows a complete match with the number 042-68-4425, therefore verification of Obama’s use of this number since 1980. Selective service match provides proof and verification via an official document issued by the U.S. government that Barack Obama is using the Social Security number 042-68-4425 Exhibit 1

9. Further use of SSNVS (Social Security Number Verification System ) shows that combination of Barack Obama’s name and the same Social Security number shows as failed, meaning that the number that Barack Obama is using, was not issued to him, but rather to another individual. This provides evidence of the Social Security Fraud and identity fraud by an individual, occupying the position of the President of the United States of America and Commander-in-chief of the US military. Exhibit 2

10 In and around 1976-1977 due to new Social Security requirements multiple elderly individuals, particularly women, who were housewives and never worked before, applied for Social Security numbers in order to obtain Social Security benefits , therefore date of birth of 1890 originally connected to 042-68-4425 was consistent with many other examples of elderly individuals, born between 1890-1915, applying for Social Security cards for the first time between 1976-1977. Exhibit 5 October 3, 2010 FOIA request and March 2, 2011 FOIA response from the Social Security Administration

11. National databases such as Lexis Nexis and Choice Point show another Social Security number, originally assigned to an elderly individual, being connected to the name Barack Obama.

12. This Social Security number 485-40-5154 is noteworthy, as it was assigned to Lucille I Ballantyne, born 12.22.1912, deceased 09.13.1998. Exhibit 4

13. Ms. Ballantyne was the mother of Harry C. Ballantyne, Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, who had access to all Social Security databases and death indices.


14. It is also noteworthy, that Obama’s grandmother Madeline Payne Dunham was known to volunteer at the Oahu Circuit court probate department and had access to Social Security numbers of the recently deceased individuals, whose death may or may not have been reported to the Social Security administration.

15. Taitz verified this data with the third investigator, retired Senior Deportation Officer with the Department of Homeland Security John Sampson. Exhibit 7

Mr. Sampson provided Taitz with an affidavit, stating that according to his investigation, the number Obama is using most of his life, is indeed a Connecticut Social Security number. Mr. Sampson provided an expert opinion, that there is no reasonable explanation for one residing in HI to get a CT Social Security number. He also found that on one of Obama’s entry questioners the country of origin is listed as an Equatorial Guinea, not Kenya or Hawaii.

16. At the same time Taitz found that national databases show different dates of birth for Obama: 08.01 1961, 08.04.1961 and 04.08.1961 as well as 1890.

11. Recently released passport records of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, show that Obama was listed in her passport under a name Soebarkah. Exhibit 6

12. AP report from Indonesia, where Obama resided, show Obama’s elementary school record under the last name Soetoro.


13. Recently Neil Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, in an interview to Honolulu Star Advertiser admitted that he was not able to locate the original birth certificate for Obama, only a notation by someone in archives that some record exists, though no actual original certified long form U.S. birth certificate was ever found for Obama.

14. Obama provided the public only a short form certification of live birth created in 2007, right before the election, which does not contain any essential information, which typically would be found in the original long form birth certificate , such as the name of the hospital, the name of the attending physician and signatures. The state of HI statute 338-17 allows a foreign born child of Hawaiian resident to obtain a Hawaiian birth certificate.

15. The state of Hawaii statute 338-5 allows one to obtain a birth certificate based on a statement of one relative only without any corroborating evidence from any hospital.

16. The state of Hawaii statute 338-6 allows one to get a late birth certificate, obtained as a result of adoption or loss of an original birth certificate.

17. Numerous reports, claiming that prior Governor of Hawaii Linda Lingle examined Obama’s birth certificate were false as well. Lingle’s interview reveals that she relied on a statement of former Director of the Health Department Chiyome Fukino, but Lingle never personally saw a birth certificate for Obama, which means that her statement was a hearsay.

18. Director of the Health Department Chiyome Fukino made a carefully crafted statement that there is a birth record in Hawaii, but in spite of thousands of demands for clarification from the media and citizens, she refused to clarify, what record exists there. A record or notation in archives created pursuant to statute 338-5, 338-6, 338-17 would constitute “a record”, but would not be sufficient to establish Obama’s birth in Hawaii without examining corroborating evidence from the hospital, which was never produced.


19. There were reports of newspaper articles, announcing Obama’s birth in HI. Follow up research did not uncover any such article anywhere. Nobody ever produced an actual newspaper with an announcement of Obama’s birth in the U.S. Only a microfiche image was found. There is no evidence, verifying when this image was created. Even if one were to believe that such news paper announcement actually existed in 1961, when Obama was born, it still does not prove that Obama was born in HI, as news paper article is not a prima facia evidence of birth and it could have been created based on a birth certificate, created under statute 338-5, 338-6, 338-17, which do not provide proof of birth in Hawaii.

20 . Senior Deportation officer John Sampson provided Taitz with a second affidavit, stating that when there is a suspicion of illegal use of a Social Security number of another individual, Social Security Administration routinely provides redacted information regarding the original SS_5 application to the Social Security administration. Such information includes gender, race, age at application, zip code. Such information is general enough not to reveal the identity of the live holder of the social security number, but it is extremely helpful in identifying fraudulent use. Taitz repeatedly submitted FOIA requests to the SSA, but was repeatedly stonewalled and even redacted information was not provided regarding the social security number 042-68-4425. Exhibit 7, 8

21. As above information shows that Obama does not possess either a long form birth certificate or a Social Security number of his own, Taitz filed a FOIA request for the SS-5 for 042-68-4425, she agreed to accept a redacted SS-5, but it was denied.

22. In MArch of 2010 Taitz filed an appeal and obtained a final determination on May 18, 2010, when her SSA FOIA appeal was denied by Jonathan R. Canthor, Executive Director, Office of Privacy and Disclosure of the social security administration.

23. Taitz appealed to the US District Court, District of Columbia 1:2010-cv-00151, Chief Judge of the DC Court, Hon Royce Lamberth.

24. Court denied the appeal, citing that the court appeal was filed prior to the final disposition by the agency and citing privacy considerations.


25. On October 4, 2010 Taitz filed yet another FOIA request with the Social Security administration requesting redacted information. FOIA requests are supposed to be granted or denied within 20 days. Taitz sent a total of six certified mail letters with requests to either grant or deny her request, but her request was not granted or denied for six months, at which time she filed this legal action. She submitted her original complaint on February 2, 2011, it was docketed on February 16, 2011. After this complaint was filed Taitz received a response from the SSA, but no information was provided regarding SSN 042-68-4425, citing privacy. No answer to the complaint was received yet and Taitz id filing this First Amended Complaint.

26 In this First Amended Complaint Taitz provides additional information, specifically Exhibit 1 Selective Service Application for Barack Obama, showing that he uses SSN 042-68-4425 and Exhibit 2 SSNVS Social Security number Verification System, which shows that this is not a legally obtained Social Security number for Barack Obama. This is a prima facia evidence of Social Security fraud and Identity Fraud obtained from the official records of the United States Government, which coupled with the age of 121years old of the original applicant (date of birth 1890) justify release of at least redacted SS-5 information requested, such as gender, race and age of the SS5 applicant for SSN 042-68-4425 and the zip code, where the original SSN card was mailed by the social Security administration. concealment of such data will constitute aiding and abetting Social Security Fraud and Identity Theft.

27. Further records from the Student Clearing House show even more shocking evidence. In his memoirs and multiple speeches Obama wrote that he studied for two years at Columbia University September 1981-May 1983. He admitted that in summer of 1981 he traveled to Pakistan to visit his friends, but repeatedly claimed that from September 1981 until May of 1983 he resided in New York and studied at Columbia University. Taitz ran a check of his years of attendance at Columbia university and found out that Columbia official records show him attending Columbia university only for nine months September 1982-till May 1983 (Exhibit 3), which means that the President of the United States lied to the whole nation about his whereabouts for a whole year September 1981 until September 1982. One year absence is the best case scenario, as he could get his university credit by reciprocity or through extern studies.

28. As there is no record of Obama residing anywhere else in the United States from September 1981-September 1982, or attending any other university, by way of simple deduction it becomes clear that his visit to Pakistan lasted not a month or two, as he claims, but over a year.

29. In 1981-1982 Pakistan was ruled by a ruthless radical Muslim leader general Zia Ul Hac, who came to power as a result of a military coup, announced himself as a Chief Martial Law Administrator and ruled the country via the system of iron fist terror. Supreme court of Pakistan, apparently afraid for their lives found such rule to be acceptable due to a “necessity” doctrine. Based on verification of Columbia university records, Taitz found that Obama spent at least a year within the regime of general Zia Ul Hac. This revelation adds urgency in processing this complaint, as it shows that we have today an individual usurping the position of the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the whole US military, while using a stolen social security number, not possessing a valid long form U.S. birth certificate and defrauding the nation and concealing a whole year of his whereabouts.

Wherefore the plaintiff respectfully prays this court:... ...Continued below including exhibits...


Previous reports on Obama's SS# can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Visit the Birther Vault for the long list of evidence against Hawaii officials and all of the people questioning Obama's eligibility; [http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2010/08/video-ltc-terry-lakins-attorney-on-cnn.html].


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamaqueer; aliens; birthcertificate; certifigate; constitution; jimmyqaeda2; naturalborncitizen; obama; patricelumumba; ssn; ssn042684425; teaparty; victory911mosque
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
The word you want there is the French word Voila, which means There!

Never try to correct grammar and usage on this board. It will be an endless (and fruitless) effort!You'll find yourself correcting endless misplaced and misused apostrophes and other sins. (sarc/off)

41 posted on 03/25/2011 4:46:01 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: JoeA

“He also found that on one of Obama’s entry questioners the country of origin is listed as an Equatorial Guinea, not Kenya or Hawaii.”

It just so happens that there is a diplomat from that nation with the last name, Obama. They’re very close in age, too.

I caused a stir on one blog three years ago but the individual from Equatorial Guinea is not a relative to BHO.


42 posted on 03/25/2011 4:52:47 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Red Steel

I hate to say this but I don’t care how much evidence orly turns up,No judge is going to force this clown out of the White House.We’ll all be paying for it as a result.

Obama’s only started with his plan to destroy this country economically,militarily and otherwise.He needs another term to finish the destruction.


43 posted on 03/25/2011 4:53:28 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: jospehm20

I’m reading Jack Cashill’s book “Deconstructing Obama”. In one of Obama’s books he goes on at length about a relationship he had with a wealthy young woman. Where is she and why not come forward? Maybe, because she was someone that Bill Ayers created for Obama from his own experience.


44 posted on 03/25/2011 5:39:30 AM PDT by surrey
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To: noinfringers2

“I note also that Connolly is a spokesman without giving his official office with the university.”

There’s no question Brian Connolly is connected with Columbia in their Office of Communications and Public Affairs. http://news.columbia.edu/brian-f-connolly
It would make perfect sense for such an individual be in charged of handling press queries about Obama’s attendance there.

“I also note that the one solid official university document presented states he (actually) attended only one school year to get his degree.”

Look more carefully. It is NOT an official Columbia document. It is an entry in a database that aggregates information from thousands of colleges/universities across the country.

Which makes more sense to you: that a database might contain an error or that an Ivy League university would purposefully mistate a material fact that at any future point could be demonstrated to be a lie should someone unearth some future info about Obama’s true whereabouts during academic year 1981-1982?

Connolly didn’t have to explicitly lie. He could have as easily said “yes, our records confirm Obama graduated in 1983.” He could have deflected questions about when Obama started by saying “that information is protected by FERPA” or he even could have misled people by saying “our records show he transferred from Occidental and graduated in 1983” letting people mistakenly fill in the blanks. The advantage of the latter approach is that it isn’t a flat-out lie. Should later information prove Obama wasn’t there for academic year 1981-82, he could just say “Well you didn’t ask me that. Obama did transfer from Occidental and he did graduate in 1983.” End of story. Why needlessly risk getting fired because you told a provable lie as spokesperson for your employer?


45 posted on 03/25/2011 5:42:39 AM PDT by DrC
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To: bushpilot1

“82 and 83 two years.”

Sorry, but academics speak in terms of academic years. September 82-May 83 is a single academic year. When someone says so-and-so went to college for 2 years, they’re talking about academic years, even though the time period in question covered pieces of 3 separate calendar years. Know any 4-year college graduates who say they attended college for 5 years?


46 posted on 03/25/2011 5:48:59 AM PDT by DrC
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To: SatinDoll

“It just so happens that there is a diplomat from that nation with the last name, Obama. They’re very close in age, too.”

This is what’s so damaging about Taitz’s “everything and the kitchen sink” approach to compiling “evidence.” To talk about dozens of different SSNs for Obama doesn’t pass the sniff test: instead, it makes Taitz look like she doesn’t know how to separate wheat from chaff. What would be more convincing is to focus on the 2 or possibly 3 SSNs that plausibly could be Obama’s, i.e., appear on documents already KNOWN to be his or that at least use addresses where he plausibly would have lived in NYC or Cambridge etc.

If she truly believes this “Equatorial Guinea” Obama actually is the same person as POTUS, then she really is a flake. But if she doesn’t such information doesn’t belong in her pleading at all, as it greatly undercuts her credibility.


47 posted on 03/25/2011 5:54:30 AM PDT by DrC
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To: Gondring

“her plans to protect Obama by making it look like his opponents are all nutcases are working well.”

Given her track record to date, I’d say that’s a hypothesis that’s at least competitive with the idea that she’s actually trying to get him removed from office. I believe she greatly tarnishes the image of birthers and makes it way easier to ridicule them.


48 posted on 03/25/2011 5:57:38 AM PDT by DrC
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"Never try to correct grammar and usage on this board. It will be an endless (and fruitless) effort!You'll find yourself correcting endless misplaced and misused apostrophes and other sins. (sarc/off)"

LOL. As a general rule, I don't play spelling/grammar cop unless the other poster is trying to lord their intellectual/academic credentials, making statements about the intelligence of others or trumpeting their ability to clearly and effectively communicate. Once they've introduced those things as part of the discourse, I consider them fair game :-)

49 posted on 03/25/2011 6:03:33 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
"The word you want there is the French word Voila, which means There! As in your case it would be "Yup, about 2 semesters and voila (there you have it), Obama gets instant degree."


Right.. walla, viola, valhalla. Yeah, I knew the word was dubious, but it was late so I mashed the "post" button.


Viola

50 posted on 03/25/2011 6:08:46 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
Release the investigator hounds!


51 posted on 03/25/2011 6:17:58 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Obama and the left are making a mockery of our country.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Never try to correct grammar and usage on this board. It will be an endless (and fruitless) effort!You'll find yourself correcting endless misplaced and misused apostrophes and other sins. (sarc/off)

Nitpicking. People on the Internet usually accept informal writings. If people want to play this game, we can play.

52 posted on 03/25/2011 6:29:01 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: DrC

An Obama attorney could have drafted the statement...hence the two years.


53 posted on 03/25/2011 6:50:27 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: ARepublicanForAllReasons
Obama could walk down the ramp of Air Force I with his privates hanging out and the MSM would convince most of the voters it never happened.

Worse than that! They would declare what a bold display of leadership that was. Then we would see Biden and the other Democrats with their Daily Ding-Dong Display. Barney Frank would be in Heaven and the homo vote would be locked up as tight (pun) as the black vote.

54 posted on 03/25/2011 7:00:16 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Never try to correct grammar and usage on this board. It will be an endless (and fruitless) effort!You'll find yourself correcting endless misplaced and misused apostrophes and other sins. (sarc/off)

Yes, I know you are right. I am just trying to shine one tiny ray of light into the darkness. I tried for years to eliminate the irritating redundancy "Each and every ... ". I was told that it was said to add emphasis. Well, duh! All redundancies are to either add emphasis or because the speaker is insecure in his own knowledge or of the knowledge of the listener. It is still redundant, just like, "I raised it up." Even Rush still says, Each and every.

Embarrassingly, I have even made grammatical mistakes while correcting someone else's. I should know better but obviously, I don't.

55 posted on 03/25/2011 7:14:28 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government!)
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To: DrC

“Know any 4-year college graduates who say they attended college for 5 years?”

Pretty much everyone at BYU.


56 posted on 03/25/2011 8:04:15 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: bushpilot1

I teach at a college. This is two semesters in one year, not two years.


57 posted on 03/25/2011 10:54:56 AM PDT by 22cal (Forgiven, not perfected)
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To: DrC

I have a daughter that worked in a university records department. She says it is real easy for someone to fake college records. If obama registered at the college and then he or a friend(in the records dept) “added” a history for him to make it appeared that he finished college there , it would appear though he graduated from that college. When the college checked on him ,these are the records that they would access. Of course if someone were to cross check records, errors would appear. If attendance records show that he was only there for nine months, then his “school records” are faked. It is highly likely that the school now knows that his records are fake.


58 posted on 03/25/2011 1:13:28 PM PDT by omegadawn (qualified)
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To: DrC

The situation with the SSNs has been around since long before the national election in 2008, so don’t be so hard on Taitz. She has done a great deal to confront the issues involving Obama, and suffered a great deal, to keep this in front of those who are interested in the truth.

I used to comment on the now non-existent Texas Darling blog in 2008. On that blog one poster discovered that in April, 2008, Barak Obama, Michelle Robinson Obama, and his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro, had something like one hundred forty-four (144) SSNs altogether. Stanley Ann is supposed to be dead so why would she have SSNs? More weirdly, why would she be living with her son and daughter-in-law?.

Granted, some of them just might have been other, unrelated people. But a number of these SSNs had ALL three people cohabiting together at the same address. If the situation wasn’t fraudulent it would be a huge coincidence, particularly if it just happened once, but this had happened several times.

The number of SSNs dropped considerably after the nominating conventions in the fall of 2008, and have continued to dwindle.

Here is my supposition: I suspect the majority of SSNs was used for laundering illegal overseas donations which came through a bank on the Island of Madeira.

The number of remaining SSNs may just be people with similar names or forgotten SSNs and addresses used by the Obamas for — whatever!


59 posted on 03/25/2011 1:46:28 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: omegadawn

“She says it is real easy for someone to fake college records”

I don’t doubt that it is, but consider the following:
“A program from the 1983 graduation ceremony lists him as a graduate.”http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/

I suppose in theory Obama could have faked graduating from Columbia in order to get admitted to Harvard: after all, an Ivy League degree is worth rather considerably more than a degree from Occidental would have been in terms of getting his application seriously considered up in Cambridge. But if this is a fabrication, why go to the bother of putting his name in the graduation program? Did he seriously think someone at HLS was going to check up on this? And if they thought they would be this meticulous, then surely it would have been far riskier to put on his fabricated transcript courses he’d allegedly taken from Columbia faculty that folks up at HLS might easily have known and contacted informally to check out his real academic potential.

“If attendance records show that he was only there for nine months, then his “school records” are faked.”

But the records uncovered by Taitz AREN’T attendance records. They’re somehow abstracted from each institution’s administrative records. Thus, if Obama had faked a Columbia record for a missing year of attendance, presumably that year’s fake record would have been caught up in the same sweep that flagged the one year that is listed.

We know with reasonable certainty he attended Occidental for only 2 years. We know with reasonable certainty he graduated from Columbia. But since it’s extremely unlikely Columbia would confer a degree on a non-honors student with only 3 years of completed coursework, it seems way more reasonable to infer that the database was wrong and inadvertently never abstracted his junior year.

For all we know, that’s because he changed names from Obama at Occidental to Soetoro to get admitted and then changed back to Obama by senior year. Thus, searching for Obama only reveals the senior year record, but leaves out the year he called himself Soetoro. This obviously is pure speculation, but I’m just trying to offer a plausible explanation that does not rely on the database necessarily having made a “mistake” in missing his junior year.


60 posted on 03/25/2011 1:52:46 PM PDT by DrC
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