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The governor couldn't release the LFBC because the state's privacy laws prohibit it. Here's the story that describes it:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-birth-hawaii-gov-proof-presidents-birth-certificate/story?id=12721552

Because the governor doesn't specifically mention a birth certificate in the above story, and instead merely refers to Obama's birth record as something "written down," birthers read between the lines and conclude he couldn't find the BC but something else. Of course, that's stupid. Since a birth certificate is a written record, it is illogical to conclude the governor was referring to something other than a birth certificate when speaking of a record "written down." But then again, birthers were never any good a logic.

Later, some guy named Mike Evans, a celebrity gossip radio talkshow host (I refuse to call him a "journalist" in order to avoid insulting people like Brit Hume), claimed the governor told him he couldn't find the BC. Later, Evans retracted the statement, denying the governor ever talked to him. Birthers, naturally, believe Evan's original statement and don't believe the retraction.

Somehow birthers can't understand why a man who makes his living in celebrity gossip would lie in oder to gain attention.

‘This is a collaborative endeavor’ - Gov. Neil Abercrombie has an agenda, but he can’t do it alone

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Q: You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plans to release more information regarding President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. How is that coming?

A: I got a letter from someone the other day who was genuinely concerned about it; it is not all just political agenda. They were talking on Olelo last night about this; it has a political implication for 2012 that we simply cannot have.

(Abercrombie said there is a recording of the birth in the State Archives and he wants to use that.)

It was actually written I am told, this is what our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives, written down ...

...What I can do, and all I have ever said, is that I am going to see to it as governor that I can verify to anyone who is honest about it that this is the case.

If there is a political agenda then there is nothing I can do about that, nor can the president.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/20110118_This_is_a_collaborative_endeavor.html

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Obama Birth Certificate Moved to More Secure Location Months Ago - By Jana Winter

Published April 27, 2011
FoxNews.com

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The issue of Obama’s birth certificate generated new interest in recent weeks following comments by Trump, among others. But Fukino said the original document was actually moved some time earlier, in response to a resurgence of interest raised by comments by made by Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie on the issue, and “to abide by state law in protecting the document from unauthorized use or theft.”

Earlier this year, Gov. Abercrombie called off his much-publicized promise to reveal Obama’s birth records.

Hawaii state law dating back to 1949 precludes the disclosure of vital records, including birth certificates, to anyone without a justifiable interest—i.e. is the subject or relative of the record—and it remains unclear why Abercrombie would have vowed to disclosure the records in the first place.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-moved-secure-location-months-ago/

Interesting. FWIW, I heard the original interview Mike Evans gave (prolly delted off the internet) and he was *adamant* in what he was saying about the guv...the next day, he’s back on the air, sounding a lot different and not confident, and more like that Liar guy on SNL, “Yeah, I NEVER spoke to my good friend, the governor, nope, never did, that’s the ticket”... A very strange exchange, and it left me wondering who was threatening his family in the background...just seems like a boatload of fishy things going on...this man who became governor and was in Congress for years had NO idea about Hawaii’s privacy laws when he stated he’d find the BC? And the sudden 180 with him as well??? Oh, to have a phone tap on their phones at tha time!