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Ah, I don’t think FUKINO did verify that he is a natural born citizen, I think someone else did. She doesn’t say SHE did in the press release. That’s why this is plan to follow:

First, through UIPA, we request this info:

“WHO has the authority to verify that a vital record maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health satisfies the criteria that indicates that the owner of the record is a natural-born American citizen?”

Based on this answer, we file an Information request to the appropriate person (X) to get this info:

“Please send me an electronic copy of the written criteria that is used by (X) to declare an individual, based on their vital records, a natural-born American citizen.”

It could be that Obama declared HIMSELF natural born. We may have to file a FOIA request with to with the White House for the latter request.

What do you think?

I'm not really very concerned that someone else may or may not have done the NBC issue legwork for Dr. Fukino. Her name is on the statement and she is the Director so she needs to step up and take some responsibility for whatever is stated in her statement wording. If something is accurate, she gets the credit. But if something is inaccurate, contradictory, or misleading, she gets the blame. It is her statement and she takes the heat. Her thin skin is on display in the statement-- "I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago..." If she is not forthcoming with what definition she used to determine natural born American citizenship status-- a question independent of anyone's private personal vital records, and a question which she should be able and under the circumstances willing to answer if she had no axe to grind-- I believe skeptics have every right to presume that something is amiss and that Dr. Fukino is taking undue liberties with the public trust accorded to her by her office for partisan political purposes. One such manner in which this could be done is to declare Obama a natural born citizen but conceal that the determination was made using a definition in which only one of Obama's parents was a US citizen. In my opinion it is unprofessional of Dr. Fukino to abuse her office by issuing well-timed but ambiguous statements that are on the surface intended to clarify a question of great national importance but which end up only adding to confusion in the general public, not to mention the courts. Dr. Fukino's concern should be for the well being of the state and the country and for the truth, and most certainly not for one partisan view over another partisan view. Dr. Fukino should not misrepresent herself as a legal expert in interpreting the Constitutional law meaning of the term "natural born [American] citizen." It seems evident that her allegiance to one political faction overrides her allegiance to the nation at large and to the propriety of her office. As to the possibility of influence from the White House in regards to the second statement, I have no doubt that Obama's people have been in touch with her in some way. Obama's M.O. is for others such as Dr, Fukino and Rep. Ambercombie to carry water for him when he has difficulties. The guy can't come out with a straight answer to a straight question. He's protected from the general public by a battery of PR flacks managing and controlling his town hall meetings and everything else about his public image. Why someone would go out of their way to help a person like that help conceal simple concerns about his constitutional elegibility for the presidency is, under the circumstances, beyond reason, and a sad commentary on ultimately how little regard we the people, the beneficiaries of the Constitution, have for that document.

Ah, I don’t think FUKINO did verify that he is a natural born citizen, I think someone else did. She doesn’t say SHE did in the press release

Yes, that's what she said. Or more precisely that the records verified his NBC status.

Her exact words, from the 27 July Press release:

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”