Cases moving forward-Obama critic coming closer to Social Security records?
Judge advances FOIA dispute over application for Connecticut number
Posted: June 04, 2011
12:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND
Much information has been reported – and much more still is being sought – about Barack Obama's original birth documentation, and whether it reveals his eligibility to be president under the Constitution's requirement those in the Oval Office be a "natural born Citizen."
But under the radar of most new organizations a case has been moving forward in Washington, D.C., through which California attorney Orly Taitz is seeking the original application for Obama's Social Security number, a document that could reveal a multitude of factors about the president's early life.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth this week rejected a defense concern over procedure in the dispute, and Taitz told WND today the case has moved into discovery and she can issue subpoenas to those holding the documentation she is seeking.
Get the New York Times best-seller "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President," by Jerome Corsi.
WND previously has reported on the issue that Obama holds a Connecticut-based Social Security number despite allegedly being born in Hawaii, starting his work career in the Aloha State, and never having lived in Connecticut.
For those who never wondered about how Social Security Numbers are generated, the first three digits represent the state of the applicant's mailing address. In other words, if you applied for a Social Securtity Number while living in Connecticut, for example, the first three digits of your SSN will correspond to the Connecticut code.
The first three digits of Obama's SSN are 042. That code of 042 falls within the range of numbers for Connecticut, which according to the Social Security Administration has been 040 through 049.
The national news media has been virtually silent on this potentially criminal fact.
Indeed, when Fox News finally attempted to explain it, it broadcast false information and then scrubbed it from its website.
When WND asked the White House about it, then–Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged the question.
Taitz' case is against Social Security commissioner Michael Astrue and explains that because of the multitude of questions surrounding Obama's eligibility, his birth certificate and his other records, the Freedom of Information Act request was submitted.
The Social Security Administration rejected it, and that decision was affirmed by a district court ruling that found the administrative procedures still had a course to run. But that now has been completed and the case is before Lamberth again.
He ruled this week that FOIA actions "are exempt" from a local court "meet and confer" requirement and he gave Astrue 30 days to file "any dispositive motions."
The federal government had argued that Taitz' process to subpoena individuals with access to the long-sought documentation was out of order, but the court ruling means it is within procedures.
According to a report in the Post & Email online blog, Taitz reported, "We're now in discovery, so I can issue subpoenas."
That is a level that no other case challenging Obama's eligibility or birth certificate ever has reached.
She said she already has contacted the Hawaii Department of Health, which is custodian of Hawaiian records, about her requests, and she said another recipient very well could be the White House.
She noted that White House Counsel Robert Bauer resigned that post just yesterday, and suggested Bauer might not have wanted to be deposed regarding questions about Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth," a document presented to the nation as genuine when the White House released it on April 27.
However, a multitude of experts have said it is a document assembled on computer and unlikely to be legitimate.
Taitz suggested that Bauer's move back into private practice may have been speeded by worries over the eligibility dispute.
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