Am I the only one getting really fed up with this arrogant,
unaccountable, wicked tyranny???
Obama Threatens
Media With Federal Investigation If They Pursue Birth Certificate!!
truther
March 13, 2012
The lead investigator in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s
review of the authenticity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate today unloaded a
bombshell about the case: that he was told by sources members of the media were
threatened with federal investigations should they continue to report on the birth certificate issue.
Lead investigator Mike Zullo told WND that as
he was preparing information to be presented to the public “it was clear that
the mainstream media was not going to be in attendance” at the sheriff’s
scheduled new conference, where he presented facts suggesting both fraud and forgery in the image of a
Hawaiian birth certificate that the White House released last yearas “proof positive”
of Obama’s eligibility for office.
“During our investigation, we actually
were told [that media] had been threatened with FTC investigations.
Commentators [had been] threatened with their jobs,” Zullo said.
The threats were so intimidating that some
individuals quit their positions over safety concerns for their families, he
said.
So the problem became to get the information to
the American public in spite of an intentional media blackout, since citizens
still must make critical leadership decisions about their government through
the election process.
The solution was an ebook with details from the investigation, the evidence
that was accumulated, and the issues that remain for Arpaio and his
investigators to pursue.
Zullo has been blasted in recent days for
coordinating the book project with longtime political writer Jerome Corsi. Much
of the online criticism stems from a single AP article that links Zullo to
“well-known political conspiracy writer” Corsi and includes a statement that
Corsi “denied using Sheriff Joe Arpaio … as a promotional tool to sell his
books and theories.”
It cites Zullo “as the co-author” of the ebook.
But it fails to mention the evidence presented by the investigation indicating
crimes of fraud and forgery.
Zullo told WND that he had no interest in
working on an ebook but was faced with the question of how to get the
information to the American people absent national media coverage. There were
interests outside of Arizona, he was convinced, making obvious efforts to
censor the information and never allow it to move beyond the borders of
Arizona.
Zullo told WND that as an investigator he
sought transparency, and he just wanted the information made available to
everyone who wished a closer look. He said it was not an easy decision. He knew
he would be ridiculed by the media if the information was released, but the
alternative of allowing the information to be squelched and people kept in the
dark was just too much of an injustice. He decided to allow the ebook project
in order to disseminate the facts of the case: that there is probable cause to
believe Obama’s birth certificate document is a forgery.
Corsi confirmed that Zullo was very reluctant
to do the book. The prospect of being reimbursed financially from his
investigation never was his intention. But Corsi pointed out that Zullo
contributed six months of his time to the investigation. Corsi also said he was
acutely aware of the financial sacrifice Zullo made over the last six months,
having to devote much of his time to the investigation. The posse investigation
was not subsidized by taxpayers.
The bigger question, Zullo said, is how can an
investigator or a law enforcement officer ignore findings that indicate
deception at the highest levels of politics. Zullo said it’s a very serious and
alarming concern that casts doubt on the integrity of the vetting of
presidential candidates.
“If the evidence took us the other way, and the
sheriff proclaimed this thing to be authentic, the news would have traveled
from Arizona to New Jersey to Hawaii in milliseconds,” he said. “If I wrote a
book about it, I would have been hailed a hero.
“All we’re trying to do here is get this
information out there and keep it out there. Had the mainstream media done
their job, we wouldn’t have done [this book].”
He said now media members have started calling
him a “kook” and an “old geezer” for reporting on the facts that resulted from
the investigation.
“The media just wants to come destroy people’s
credibility,” he said. “They’re trying to vet [investigators] when they should
be vetting the next presidential candidate of the United States.”
He said that many people didn’t come forward
with their knowledge about Obama “out of fear.”
“The information that we got, which these
people refused to step forward with out of fear, but shared afterward, came
independently – they don’t even know each other – from distant parts of the
country, that investigations of major media outlets [were planned] if they
continued reporting,” he said.
“Our system is broken because the vetting
process used to rely on the free press. We don’t have a free press any more,”
he said.
Although the numbers may have been small, there
was support for Zullo’s perspective, even in the media.
“Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, ‘Trust, but
verify,’” she wrote. “President Obama told us he released his official
long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011. Can we trust him, and should we
verify?
“Most of the reporters’ questions at the end of
[Arpaio's] press conference were statements in defense of Obama, and the
subsequent coverage by major news outlets asserted that rumors about the
president’s birth certificate were ‘debunked’ and ‘discredited,’ but gave no
details of the debunking or discrediting,” she marveled.
“As the sheriff also noted at the conference,
no specific or official investigation has ever been reported, unless we can
count Savannah Guthrie, apparently the only reporter allowed to touch and
photograph the original long-form certificate after it was released, or the two
representatives of Factcheck (neither noted as having an relevant professional
experience in document examination) who photographed the short-form
certification posted in 2008,” she wrote.
“To paraphrase another favorite Reagan
quotation, ‘It isn’t so much that the mainstream media are ignorant. It’s just
that they know so many things that aren’t so,’” she added.
She noted that after reporters attacked the
message at the news conference, they “questioned the motives of the sheriff and
even the political affiliation of the posse’s lead detective, Mike Zullo.”
She said the focal point for a true reporter
would be the issue at hand – the validity of Obama’s documents.
“Was the document posted by the White House a
scan of an original certified document? Based on the analysis of the posse’s
experts, it was not. In fact, the posse has traced the image to a specific
computer where it resided a mere 20 minutes before it was uploaded, and has
identified a ‘person of interest.’”
She suggest three possible answers: purely
innocent anomalies to “touch up” an image and someone purposely tinkering to
create the appearance of suspicion.
“Third, if the certificate is indeed an
intentional forgery, we have witnessed the greatest fraud of the century,” she
said.
“In my local paper, there was not even a single
line devoted to the posse’s stunning assertions. What happened to ‘Extra!
Extra! Read all about it! The posted birth certificate of a sitting president a
possible forgery!’”
Nick Martin at TPM editorialized that the book sale “gives
Zullo a financial motive to continue stoking the flames of a conspiracy theory
that has been debunked numerous times by an array of independent
investigations.” But the details of the investigations were absent in his
piece. The sheriff himself also noted only one side of the issue was being
reported.
In a commentary in the Arizona Republic, he
wrote of reporters, “They were practically salivating at the opportunity to
embarrass me, my highly capable group of volunteer investigators and literally
anyone else who would dare show in interest in the possibility that this
investigation would lead to any real credible evidence into what they claim has
already been ‘looked into’ or ‘widely debunked.’”
Arpaio also has defended the book. “We needed a book
precisely because we knew in advance the mainstream media would impose a
blackout on any serious law enforcement investigation into Obama’s
identification documents and his eligibility to be president,” Arpaio told WND.
He explained that the book is intended to
bypass the filter the establishment media tries to impose on news. WND provided
a live-stream Internet broadcast of the Arpaio press conference last Thursday
for the same reason.
Martin wrote that the sheriff also failed to
mention that much of the evidence concerned questions about the digital scan
“that was already investigated and proven to be false” by another investigative
agency, National Review Online.
There were signs, however, that the national
media’s silence was creating concerns.
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