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One additional thing to my above post. If Shaun Daly is the one that requested the certificate, she would have had to go to Hawaii in person with the authorization letter in order to obtain a copy. If it was requested via the Internet, then she committed wire fraud. When requesting a birth certificate from Hawaii via the Internet, you have to choose from a list your relationship to the registrant. The only options are those for family members and a state agency. By clicking "Proceed" she has to check a box that says in part :

I also certify that the information provided on the document is true and correct.

By claiming she is a family member and wasn't, she has committed wire fraud. Now, no member of the Obama team would ever be dishonest and do something such as committing wire fraud, would they ? (/sarc )

Thus it begs the question. Why go to all the trouble of writing a letter for authorization and flying out to Hawaii to obtain a copy ( or simply ask your sister or grandmother who are family members to obtain a copy ) when he himself could have requested a copy via the Internet in the same amount of time it would take him to sign a letter. The only explanation would be if you were requesting a Certificate of Live Birth and not the Certification of Live Birth ( COLB) The Certificate has to be requested in person. So then where is the Certificate ? The only thing that actually makes sense is that she never requested a copy of the COLB or of the vault copy either.

Here's the deal breaker: In her June 13, 3008 article in Politifact, Amy Hollyfield was recounting her conversation with Janice Okubo and noted that "Okubo said a copy of the birth certificate was requested in June 2008, but she wouldn't specify by whom."

Then, in her follow-up article on June 27, Hollyfield committed a huge gaffe by mentioning a reader's question about the date-stamp on the back and then creating a conundrum, when she pondered (in parentheses) the obvious contradiction of a "June 2007" date-stamp on a COLB that Okubo claims was requested in "June 2008": • Isn't the date stamp bleeding through the back of the document "June 2007?" (Odd since it was supposedly released in June 2008.)

Odd, indeed!