It's about getting and having a security clearance.
A lot of things have changed in the past 60 years, but during my hitch as a "Korean conflict" draftee I can't recall ever having to produce a birth certificate, even to get my DOD secret clearance, and I know there were investigations done around home in connection with that. There were some strange things in the 201 file though, including the statement that I had completed 16 weeks Infantry basic . . . the fact being that it was really 5 weeks and one day of Signal Corps basic, about equivalent to a good Boy Scout Jamboree. I'm not saying that President O should not show his, though. I hope the LTC's court martial will force some action in that direction.