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While many at FR have read our framers, and the relevant cases before Justia edited out Minor v Happersett, Clairmont Institute is a 501c3, and must be careful to avoid scrutiny which could crush them at the will of the party in power. They can have no doubt, as every one of our Senators attested in April 2008, that a president must have been born to citizen parents. Codevilla doesn’t quite connect Jay, Washington and Marshall's caution that our president must have inherited allegiance from his parents, but he explains from whom Obama boasted of having received his moral and political guidance, almost touching the third rail of Obmaa's patent illegitimacy to the office of the presidency.

The weapons available to Obama, The Justice Department, CIA, government run media, must be diminishing as his tenure fades and America's international stature weakens. No one should forget what a criminal justice department was permitted, even by the president for whom it worked, to do to Scooter Libby, prosecuting him with the full public assistance of a compliant press, after a confession had been proffered by Dick Armitage working for Colin Powell.

Almost all current and former intelligence agents know about these connections. Codevilla didn't mention John Brennan, Deputy CIA Director, who has been at Obama’s elbow for five or more years, or old Communist sympathizer Leon Panetta, first at CIA and now Sec Def. Codevilla he has compiled a rationale for Obama’s motivations about a class of society with which Codevilla was connected, but with few of us have any direct experience.

I had not thought about Cord Meyer for several decades, and would never have made the connection. He retired from the CIA in 1977, but Codevilla's mention caused bells to ring. I hope Codevilla expands his analysis into a book, or collection of articles, because it will connect many others, not necessarily attempting to foment revolution, but whose behavior has been certainly constrained by what and who they know, and what roles they have performed in the past.

What seems to be taking shape is that Obama’s is a presidency shaped by a powerful faction with strong connections, if not its origin, in our CIA.

Interesting of Codevilla to connect the dots to the CIA especially in Indonesia. It would not surprise me if Madelyn Dunham in her trust officer role at the Bank of Hawaii was knee deep in transfering funds for CIA activities throughout Asia. The so-called phony CIA front group mentioned by Codevilla in the article includes some names of landed gentry and their progeny who control much of Hawaiian commerce even now: Bishop and Dillingham, the former of which, IIRC, was the financial force behind the creation of Bishop Trust and the Punaho School, home to BHO for 7 years or so.

Information on Ann Dunham's father Stanley also fell victim over the last year to the Google phenomena of self-eradicating ether for at one time one could read that he and Frank Marshall Davis lived within a few miles of each other in Seattle. It was said that Dunham followed Davis to Hawaii, both tracked by the FBI as cell members. Further, also gone to ether, Dunham was not a furniture salesman but a Boeing employee who had transferred from Wichita to Seattle. Hence, Stanley Ann was born in or near Wichita. The FBI may not have had any major reason to keep a file on a lowly furniture salesman, but Boeing starting with WWII when Stanley went to work for them is another matter.

Finally, Codevilla reminds us that S. Ann Dunham Obama Soetero spent years working in Lahore Pakistan. Recall, I'm sure we all do, that Barry went there for months or more after his brief stint at Occidental with one or more Moslem school chums. Not exactly spring break in Fort Lauderdale. (In "Monsoon" published last year, Robert Kaplan alludes to heretofore secret American attempts over the years to contain radical Islam in Indonesia, radical Islam coming from Yemen and Pakistan.) So BHO's mom was on scene when our CIA deposed Sukarno and set up Suharto in Indonesia and she was also on scene when America began propping up governments in Pakistan. Just your average do-gooder from Kansas?