Republican Gov. Linda Lingle has placed Barack H. Obama's birth certificate under seal and instructed the state's Department of Health to ensure no one -- except Obama or his family -- can obtain access to the original document under any circumstances, World Net Daily reported. The governor's office declined a request made in writing by WND in Hawaii to obtain a copy of the original hospital-generated original birth certificate of Barack Obama, following similar rejections to other journalists and publications, including Israel Insider.
WND was told the official reason for denial of access to Obama's birth certificate would be authority granted pursuant to Section 338-18 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision the anonymous source claimed was designed to prevent identity theft. Still, the source told WND confidentially, the motivation for withholding the original birth certificate was political. The source refused to disclose, however, whether there was any information on the original birth certificate that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama. The source also refused to answer WND's question whether the original document on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to the birth.
The Governor's office, however, replied that the WND report that Lingle had acted to seal the Obama records was false, and the governor was merely restating the existing privacy protection provisions in Hawaiian law.
The Obama campaign website, entitled "Fight the Smears," posts an image of state of Hawaii "Certification of Live Birth" which is not the original birth certificate generated by the hospital where Obama claimed to have been born. Indeed, there are two different hospitals in Honolulu that have been reported as his birthplace.
But Obama's Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged that she witnessed Obama's birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. Kenya has told WND that all documents concerning Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidential election on November 4. There are also unconfirmed reports that Obama may have been born in Canada.
"Fight the Smears" declares, "The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America." The Obama campaign has not submitted the actual document to objective public inspection, except for a photographic session with the FactCheck website backed by a foundation that has also backed Obama's projects in the past. Obama refers to his possession of an original birth certificate in the Dreams from my Father memoir published in his name, but he has never made that document available. Israel Insider has published extensively on the controversy..
Tags: birth certificate, elections 2008, obama, philip berg, politics, supreme court
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