WHY HAS OBAMA RECEIVED “PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT” WITH HIS FORGERY?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Apr. 15, 2013) — On September 8, 2004, two months prior to the presidential election, veteran CBS news anchor Dan Rather presented documents to his television audience which he contended proved that then-President George W. Bush “shirked his duties” and received preferential treatment while serving in the Texas Air National Guard.
Rather showed six pages of documents which he alleged were written by Bush’s unit commander, the late Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian. The source of the documents, Bill Burkett, later admitted that his cited source of the documents had been a lie.
Within hours of the broadcast, “document experts” reported that the four documents “appeared to have been created on a computer and not on the kind of typewriter in use during the 1970s.”
The Media Research Center reported the documents as “forged.”
On September 16, Rather acknowledged that the documents used as a basis for his report might not be authentic but clung to the story line that Bush had received special treatment while in the Guard, a contention which Killian’s former secretary reinforced. However, Rather continued to say that the documents “could have been created in the ’70s,” although he was not given originals for the story.
Because the documents could not be authenticated by handwriting experts, the story fell apart, and Rather was forced to admit that he could not continue to report it. He later lost his long-time position with CBS.
At the time, The Washington Post stated that a comparison of the CBS documents with “authenticated” documents from the era “reveals dozens of inconsistencies, ranging from conflicting military terminology to different word-processing techniques.” Analyses of the documents revealed that the font used and the presence of a superscript made it unlikely, if not impossible, for the papers to have originated in the 1970s. CBS appeared to have access to document experts who reportedly warned the network’s producers that the documents might not be genuine.
The source of the documents, Bill Burkett, admitted that they were not obtained from the National Guard source he originally cited, revealing a questionable chain of custody. Burkett claimed that he had urged CBS to “authenticate the documents on its own.”
There were indications that the Air National Guard story could have been politically-motivated, as Burkett had reportedly been in touch with the campaign of John Kerry, now Secretary of State but then Bush’s presidential challenger.
As recently as February 8, 2013, Rather insisted that the documents had never been proven “forgeries,” and he still believes that Bush received special treatment during his Texas Air National Guard years, citing “a terrific propaganda barrage” as an effort to discredit his report.
Former CBS journalist Bernard Goldberg was highly critical of the network, stating that “CBS News is acting the way the Nixon administration did during Watergate. I’m really sad to say that Dan Rather is acting like Richard Nixon. It’s the coverup, it’s the stonewalling.”
On February 11, 2009, three CBS executives and a producer were fired for failing to pursue due diligence before the Bush National Guard story was aired. A review panel reported that “a zealous belief in the truth of the segment seem to have led many to disregard some fundamental journalistic principles.”
Where are the network document analysts now that Obama’s birth certificate has been declared a forgery by law enforcement? Where were they when the image was posted on the White House website on April 27, 2011?
Like the Bush documents, directly after the Certificate of Live Birth bearing Obama’s name was posted, bloggers and analysts came forward to say that it was a “poor effort at forgery,” with no one authenticating it.
Neither CNN, MSNBC, CBS or ABC News has investigated since Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse declared Obama’s long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration form “computer-generated forgeries” on March 1, 2012 after an 18-month investigation. Instead, reporters have been threatened, marginalized, ridiculed, and maligned by an orchestrated disinformation campaign which has allowed a man without documentation to enter the White House not once, but twice.
From interviews conducted with Carl Gallups, who has been disseminating new information from the Cold Case Posse on his “Freedom Friday” radio show in recent weeks, it appears that a White House operative is suspected of uploading the forgery to the White House server almost two years ago.
There are strong suspicions that the forgery was created by an employee at the Hawaii Department of Health. Since 2008, when questions arose about Obama’s alleged birth in Hawaii, the department has avoided answering open records requests forthrightly while Obama supporters and propagandists have labeled anyone doubting Obama’s birth story the pejorative “birther” or “racist.”
As the Cold Case Posse’s investigation gains traction with “VIPs” in a position to take action on the crime committed, the major networks continue to stonewall reporting it.
The documents used as the underpinnings of Dan Rather’s report could not be authenticated, which caused the story to collapse, and Rather left “60 Minutes” the following year. In 2006, he departed CBS after 43 years as a reporter and anchor.
How many executives will lose their jobs over the Obama birth certificate forgery? Has a particular ideology kept them silent, or was it something more sinister?
If forged documents cannot be used as a basis for any news story, why is Obama still in the White House with forged documents?
What has happened to the press in America?
The First Amendment calls for a free press to report on the activities of government with “no prior restraint.”
According to Lori Handrahan (www.orlytaitzesq.com), child porn is “epidemic” among Pentagon officials and US government employees. Child porn and pedophilia can be used to blackmail a corrupt official or corrupt judge into violating any law. If they have security clearances, they become security risks and perhaps threats to National Security.
For more than four years, many of us have suspected that the judges involved in ocommie’s eligibility cases had been paid off. In light of the revelation above, there is now a whole new area of suspicions to consider. What if these officials and judges have been blackmailed into such rulings as “He lives in the WH, therefore, he must be eligible.”?
A U.S. Attorney has been caught accessing child porn on a government computer, a crime which Eric Holder has steadfastly refused to prosecute. If this epidemic reaches as high as a U.S. Attorney, it becomes relatively easy to believe that multiple eligibility case judges might also be susceptable to child porn blackmail. I’m betting when the truth finally comes out, this sick stuff will be found to have played a part.