Law professor/author Andy Martin makes a personal appeal to Barack Obama: release the secret files in Hawai’i State custody!

Martin says Monday’s admission by Hawai’i health officials that the state still maintains secret files on Obama makes asses out of Bill O’Reilly, CNN “researchers” and the CNN news managers that tried to intimidate Lou Dobbs. Hawai’i officials admitted (confessed?) on July 27th they still maintain secret files on Obama that have not been opened to the public. Martin has a pending lawsuit seeking public access to these historical archives in Hawai’i State custody. Martin says the latest disclosure by Hawai’i that the secret files still exist is going to explode the controversy and corrode support for Obama’s presidency. Since filing his lawsuit in 2008, Martin has become a candidate for U. S. Senator in Illinois in 2010.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “the Obama birth certificate circus has now spun out of media control”

The legal expert whose columns and lawsuits created the birth certificate frenzy says the opposition to disclosure will be undermined by the latest admission that Hawai’i still maintains secret files on Barack Obama

Martin says Obama’s secret files in Hawai’i are increasingly corroding public support for his presidency

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ANDY MARTIN SAYS DR. CHIYOME FUKINO’S LATEST ADMISSION ADDS FUEL TO THE FIRE, AND MAKES BILL O’REILLY LOOK LIKE A JERK.

CNN NEWS MANAGEMENT IS ONCE AGAIN EMBARRASSED; LOU DOBBS IS A WINNER

ANDY PLANS MORE LEGAL ACTION IN THE HAWAI’I SUPREME COURT
TO “STOP THE CIRCUS”

MAINSTREAM MEDIA (CNN, MSNBC, NBC, NEW YORK TIMES) LOOK LIKE OBAMA LACKEYS FOR PRESENTING THE “OBAMA PARTY LINE" ON THE SECRET BIRTH FILES.

“WHEN DID THE NEW YORK TIMES EVER STOP TRYING TO DISCOVER THE CONTENTS OF SECRET FILES?” ASKS MARTIN. “WHEN THEY CONCERNED OBAMA’S BIRTH RECORDS.”

(PALM BEACH)(July 28, 2009) Just when you thought the anti-birth certificate wackos in the mainstream media (Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, Bill O’Reilly and others) could not get any wackier, they were torpedoed Monday, July 27th by a new confirmation that Hawai’i state officials still maintain secret birth records on Barack Obama

“Last week, CNN threatened Lou Dobbs and denigrated his professionalism for being right about Obama’s missing birth records,” law professor and Obama author Andy Martin announced Tuesday morning. “Dobbs has said (we paraphrase) ‘I think Obama is a citizen, but why won’t he release the original documentation?’ CNN ‘news managers’ have said the issue is ‘dead.’ July 27th Hawai’i officials rendered those claims ‘dead’ when they confirmed the issue of the secret files is very much alive.

“I know how CNN can save some money,” says Martin. “They can fire the jerks in the ‘research’ department who said the Obama birth documents had been destroyed. Chiyome Fukino has just made assess out of CNN ‘research.’ She proved that Lou Dobbs is on the right track.

“Bill O’Reilly, who likes to think of himself as a restrained intellectual, proved that when it comes to Obama’s birth records, the opponents of release always end up making themselves look like asses. O’Reilly said Monday that Hawai’i officials sent his staff the birth certificate last year. That is a lie. Pure nonsense. Hawai’i has not distributed even the COLB without Obama’s permission. There is no evidence Obama gave permission to O’Reilly or Hawai’i to send O’Reilly a copy. To be polite about it, O’Reilly is full of crap. O’Reilly took a cheap shot at Lou Dobbs and ended up shooting himself in the foot.

“Then there is ‘Dr.’ Chiyome Fukino. She is another ‘ring’ in the Obama birth certificate three-ring circus. In October, 2008 Fukino tried to rig the election in Obama’s favor (despite the fact she works for a Republican governor) by releasing remarks confirming she had personally examined Obama’s original paperwork. How could she have done that if CNN says the records were destroyed six years earlier?

“At the time, I said Fukino had validated the claims in my lawsuit. I was correct. Fukino repeated her remarks Monday, July 27th.

“Monday’s ‘statement’ by Fukino will energize the controversy. Fukino again confirmed she had examined (caps for emphasis) ‘the ORIGINAL VITAL RECORDS MAINTAINED ON FILE by the Hawai’i State Department of Health…’ ‘Original…records’ are clearly something different than mere data stored in a DOH computer.

“Just when the mainstream media were trying to cover-up the controversy, Fukino poured new fuel on the fire and ensured the Obama 'Birth Certificate Circus' will not end until Hawai'i's secret files are made public. Fukino’s latest remarks are going to send the ‘Free the birth certificate’ movement into the media mainstream.

“If Fukino has a secret ‘original file’ which she repeatedly references and examines, she makes asses out of CNN who claim the file was destroyed. Embarrassing for CNN? Yup. Validation for Lou Dobbs? Yup.

“I would like to claim the role of ringmaster in this birth certificate circus,” Martin says. “I did what any competent law professor would do in 2008. I cracked the whip in Honolulu and filed a lawsuit to obtain access to the secret files containing the historic information. Hawai’i officials are still keeping these American archives secret. Outrageous. Hawaii’s action is asinine.

“My complaint is on the Internet (October, 2008 archives). The Hawaii’ courts have tried to delay and obstruct my access to the ‘original vital records.’ How can you hide history? Obama’s documentation is now part of history. Plain and simple.

“My case is currently pending in both the Hawai’i Supreme Court and the Honolulu District Court. I do not believe my Petition for Certiorari in the Hawai’i Supreme Court is online at the Court, but I put my papers online on my blogs (see below). The title of the lawsuit is Martin v. Lingle.

“From the first day I began writing about Barack Obama’s secret life five years ago, Obama has obstructed access to the truth about himself. Obama’s sycophants in the media and government have tried to protect him from the truth and the facts of his life.

“But the truth won't die, because the truth cannot die. The truth is in the documents.

“What secrets do the secret files contain? Americans have a right to know. Historians and authors have a right to know.

“The search for the truth is being obstructed by Barack Obama himself. He could put an end to the 'Circus' by authorizing Hawai'i to release the secret files. What is he hiding? My search for the facts and truth continues, and will continue. The American people have a right to see the ‘original vital records’ of their president.

“I will shortly announce new legal action. Fukino has confirmed that ‘the original vital records’ on file with the Hawai’i Department’ exist and she has access to them. Therefore, I have a meritorious legal claim. I will continue to press that claim.

“Those who claim, as Bill O’Reilly does falsely, that they have already received these documents are liars. Those who claim, as CNN does, that these documents have been destroyed, are also liars. Fukino's latest disclosure that the secret files exist has made liars out of all of them.

“Luckily, one person, me, is seeking the truth in the proper forum (Hawai’i state courts) with a lawsuit against the proper officials (Hawai’i state officials), for the secret documents which they admitted again on July 27th they have on file. I will continue to press my claims.

Lou Dobbs, who does not have my level of legal expertise, but who has a practical understanding that ‘something is wrong’ with the way Obama’s ‘vital records’ are being manipulated and concealed, is also right. The boobs at CNN who denigrated and intimidated Dobbs also end up looking like asses.

“Dobbs and I look pretty good.

“Finally, I issue this sincere appeal to Barack Obama: Stop the Circus! Stop manipulating and concealing the truth about yourself. Public doubts are growing. As long as you maintain secret files in Hawai’i these files are going to corrode public support for your presidency.

“In the wake of Fukino's July 27th remarks, public doubts are going to skyrocket. Authorize Hawai’i to release all of your secret files. With Fukino’s confirmation that these files exist, the controversy is not going to die and is not going to disappear unless and until Fukino’s secret files, all of them, not just some of them, are made public.

“You are abusing the American people by playing games with your birth records. Stop the Circus. Tell the truth! Open the files!” Martin said.

Professor Martin is preparing new legal action.

Earlier this year he became a candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois in 2010. [Martin is currently visiting his mother, who lives in Florida, before the senate race formally opens on August 4th.]

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Andy Martin demands detailed information from Hawai’i officials

Andy Martin releases letter at Chicago News Conference Sunday that suggests Barack Obama may have secretly tried to manipulate Hawai’i officials during recent “emergency” visit to Honolulu.

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Anthony R. Martin, J. D.
Executive Editor


November 2, 2008


The Honorable Linda Lingle
Governor, State of Hawai`i
Executive Chambers
State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
via fax (808) 586-0006
Hon. Mark Bennett
Department of the
Attorney General
425 Queen Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
via fax (808) 586-1239

Chiyome Fukino, M.D.Director of Health1250 Punchbowl St.Honolulu, HI 96813
via fax (808) 586-4444

Re:

Barack Obama Certificate of Live Birth (birth certificate) Circuit Court litigation

and

Uniform Information Practices Act demand for inter-office correspondence by your offices with each other and contacts with persons/media outside state government


Dear Governor Lingle,
General Bennett, and
Dr. Fukino:

As you are no doubt aware, I have filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for the First District in Honolulu seeking access to the original 1961 files concerning Barack Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth (“COLB”)(birth certificate).

This letter is meant to address three matters:

1. I am formally renewing my request for access to the original, typewritten 1961 COLB/birth certificate, so that there is no question that a formal request has been made and received by your offices. If that document as amended in any way, I demand access to the complete file. Michelle Obama has been quoted (I don’t know how accurately) as saying her husband was “adopted” at some point.

2. This letter is meant to place you on notice that I believe Dr. Fukino's statements to the media on Friday, October 31st concerning the original, typewritten 1961 COLB waived any secrecy concerning the original COLB because she specifically invited or solicited news coverage and invited commentary and attention on the document.

3. I am also submitting a request pursuant to the Hawai’i Uniform Information Practices Act (“UIPA”), HRS § 92F-1 et seq. for communications to and from your offices concerning the COLB with persons outside your offices and media, as well as your inter-office communications concerning the matter of the COLB.

I.

FORMAL REQUEST FOR ACCESS TO THE FULL AND COMPLETE
AND ORIGINAL 1961 OBAMA COLB AS WELL AS ANY AMENDMENTS

I sent a request for this file several months ago. My request and my check were returned with a form reply that I was not entitled to access. This letter formally and legally renews my request. (The $10 will be submitted by overnight mail as soon as you notify me the document(s) is available.)

I seek access for the reasons set forth in greater detail in my pending lawsuit: namely as an author, scholar and writer concerning Mr. Obama. I am writing a second book on him.

I believe that Hawai’i officials have misconstrued the terms of the relevant statute, asserting that some sort of blood relationship is required before disclosure is permitted, when the statutory language clearly does not pretermit that interpretation. In fairness, the Attorney General has not yet made public such an unfounded assertion. (The AG, however, appears to have issued “guidance” to the Department of Health, which would be discoverable under Part III, infra, see Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2008 [attached] that is palpably in conflict with the statutory language.)

II.

DR. FUKINO’S STATEMENTS ON OCTOBER 31ST

October 31st Dr. Fukino made a number of public statements concerning the COLB documents I am seeking to access. I use the plural because the original COLB may have been amended; we don’t know, which is why access is essential: to end the speculation and establish the facts.

In my opinion, Dr. Fukino’s public statements about a secret document (the original 1961 COLB) may have waived the confidentiality provisions of the statute. I don’t think a public official can play gotcha with secret information and make public references to a document while denying access to the same document so the public can make an independent determination and comparison, see e.g. “The scope of a statutory privilege, however, is tempered by the principle that " 'privileges preventing disclosure of relevant evidence are not favored and may often give way to a strong public interest.' " State v. L.J.P., 270 N.J.Super. 429, 637 A.2d 532, 537 (1994) State v. Peseti, 101 Hawai’i 172, 65 P.3rd 119, 127 (Hawai’i 2003).

Therefore, I would ask that you reconsider your original refusal to release my requested information in light of Dr. Fukino’s public statements and de facto waiver on Friday.

III.

ADDITIONAL REQUEST PURSUANT TO HAWAI’I UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT FOR INTER-OFFICE AND EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING THE COLB/BIRTH CERTIFICATE ISSUE

On Friday, when Dr. Fukino issued a statement, did she coordinate with the Attorney General before she made her claims?

I would like all correspondence or e-mails or other forms of communication between the Attorney General and the Governor’s office, Dr. Fukino’s office or any other Executive Department office.

I would also like copies of all records of contacts between your offices and persons or media organizations outside Hawai’i state government. For example, and not by way of limitation, Governor Lingle apparently received a request from Jerome Corsi and denied it; I would like all correspondence to or from Jerome Corsi and any other media or individuals and either the Governor, Health Department or any other Executive Department.

Janice Okubo has apparently disseminated great deal of information in her capacity as a media relations contact. All of these contacts must be produced under the UIPA.

Dr. Fukino communicated with the media, and possibly the Governor and Attorney general, about these issues. I am asking for the records of any and all such contacts. I am requesting all such correspondence in any form. This request should be deemed to be all-inclusive: as to contacts or communication between Corsi or any and all other persons or media, and the Executive Departments.

Dr. Fukino issued a statement on Friday. I would like a copy of her formal statement, as well as an indication to whom it was issued. I would like any correspondence between Dr. Fukino’s office and the Governor’s office or Attorney General’s office concerning any aspect of the COLB or the pending birth certificate lawsuit.

There also appears to have been some media manipulation going on. Janice Okubo stated that “it looks exactly the same as my own birth certificate,” Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2008 [attached]. That is a misleading statement. Does Obama’s 1961 original look exactly like Okubo’s? Or does her facsimile look like his?

I am just digging for the facts and the truth about Mr. Obama. I hope you will join me in this enterprise. Mr. Obama has a unique way of discrediting himself, and Dr. Fukino may have inadvertently helped Obama create new suspicious about his behavior involving the COLB. When I was in Honolulu last month with my investigative team, and Obama suddenly appeared, many people thought he was reacting to my investigation of his past and parentage. Others scoffed at that interpretation. Today, after the miraculous recovery of his grandmother, almost everyone believes Obama used his grandmother as a beard to engage in manipulation concerning his COLB and related issues involving potential embarrassment. Your own integrity and behavior has now been clouded by Obama’s apparent manipulation and your subsequent conduct in seeking to assist him in orchestrating vital information about his birth.

Thus, I hope the forgoing are a comprehensive series of requests for everything that exists concerning Hawai’i state government and the Obama COLB. Let’s stop manipulating the facts and truth, and put all of them in the public arena where they belong.

Because we are dealing with public offices, and public trusts, I do not believe any correspondence may be exempted on the grounds that it leads to an invasion of privacy or that any common law privilege applies to the requested communications. Mr. Obama has publicized a form of his COLB, so he himself has also waived any privacy concerns concerning comparisons with the original material. Obama can’t manipulate the facts any more than Dr. Fukino can make partial, self-serving and incomplete statements concerning vital documents [see attached “Fox News”].

Dr. Fukino has openly discussed the document and invited widespread interest in the 1961 material. She solicited attention for Hawai’i government materials on the eve of the national election. A clearer case for waiver of privacy/secrecy would be hard to conceive.

In other words, in this letter, in addition to access to the original 1961 document itself (Part I) I am also seeking access to records of contacts which each of you has had with (i) the outside world (news media, citizens, etc.) and (ii) among yourselves concerning either my lawsuit or the issue of the Obama birth certificate itself (this Part III).


Respectfully submitted,




ANDY MARTIN


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W/attachments:

1. Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2008 (James Janega)
2. Fox News leads the disinformation parade (ContrarianCommentary.com)