by Sharon Rondeau
(Aug. 12, 2023) — On July 27, 2023, this writer submitted an online request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The request sought:
All documents, video, emails and other records dated January 1, 2009 through July 27, 2023 containing any of the following terms:
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi
Ilhan Omar
Ahmed Hirsi
Somalia
Nur Omar Mohamed
“Ilhan Omar” is a U.S. congresswoman representing Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District since January 2019. Born in Somalia, Omar has provided no evidence she ever became a U.S. citizen, a constitutional requirement to serve in Congress as well as in the Minnesota legislature, where she served one term before successfully running for the U.S. House in 2018.
Section 6 of the Minnesota constitution states:
Senators and representatives shall be qualified voters of the state, and shall have resided one year in the state and six months immediately preceding the election in the district from which elected. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and eligibility of its own members. The legislature shall prescribe by law the manner for taking evidence in cases of contested seats in either house.
According to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, a voter must be:
- A U.S. citizen
- At least 18 years old on Election Day
- A resident of Minnesota for 20 days
- Not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction (More info)
In July 2022, a case brought by DFL primary contender AJ Kern against Omar; a third primary candidate, Jamaican-born Don Samuels; and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon asked the court to compel Omar and Samuels to provide proof they qualified to hold a seat in the U.S. House, one of whose requirements is “seven Years a Citizen of the United States.”
During her campaign, Kern inquired of the Secretary of State’s office the procedure for ascertaining that candidates for office are U.S. citizens and was told “there is no law that requires us and, in fact, because there is no law telling us to do that, we would be violating the laws by checking up on people.”
According to Business Insider and other sources, Omar “became a U.S. citizen,” though no source has provided proof of the claim.
Prior to filing in court, Kern contacted Omar and Samuels to request respective releases so she could obtain their naturalization records to which neither responded.
Omar and Samuels claimed they were never served with the suit, although Kern’s filing contains a “Notice of Lawsuit and Request for Waiver of Service of Summons” addressed to Omar’s congressional office and prefilled forms for Omar, Samuels and Secretary of State Steve Simon to return, postage-paid, were they to agree to waive service under Rule 4.05 of the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure.
As The Post & Email has reported as a result of Kern’s case, which was dismissed in July 2022 in Omar and Samuels’s favor without oral argument, Omar reportedly came to the U.S. in 1995 as a refugee with her father, who she has identified as “Nur Omar Mohamed.”
According to an April 22, 2020 article from The Blaze, Omar had previously identified her father as “Ahmed Nur Said Elmi” in tweets she later removed. The article refers to the research of Powerline Blog’s Scott Johnson and the Minnesota-based Alpha News.
In 2016, Alpha News wrote, “Now Alpha News has confirmed that the legal name for Omar’s father is Nur Said Elmi Mohamed…A Somali community member speaking under the terms of anonymity has confirmed to Alpha News that Nur Said Elmi Mohamed is the same person as Nur Said/Nur Mohamed and is the father of Ilhan Omar and Sahra Noor,” a reference to Omar’s sister confirmed through Facebook posts.
“Ahmed Hirsi” is Omar’s first husband, from whom she obtained a divorce in November 2019, according to CBS News via the Associated Press.
On June 23 that year, the Washington Examiner reported:
Dozens of official documents suggest that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was living with her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, throughout her entire legal marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, contradicting the story she tells to explain her multiple marriages.
Omar tells her marital history in the following way:
2002: Omar married Hirsi in a faith ceremony, but never legally married.
2008: Omar and Hirsi “decided to end our relationship in our faith tradition.”
Early 2009: Omar legally married Elmi.
2011: Omar and Elmi religiously divorced.
2011: Omar and Hirsi reconciled.
2017: Omar and Elmi belatedly obtained a legal divorce.
2018: Omar and Hirsi legally married.
A paper trail of legal documents, however, undermines Omar’s claim that her marriage to Elmi, a British citizen, came during a split from Hirsi. All available evidence suggests that her legal marriage to Elmi notwithstanding, Omar has always been in marital relationship with Hirsi.
The same day the Examiner‘s article was published, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported:
New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.
Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as “baseless rumors” first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House. But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.
The questions surfaced again this month in a state probe of campaign finance violations showing that Omar filed federal taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, while she was still legally married to but separated from Elmi.
Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.
Omar also “corrected” her birth year from 1981 to 1982 on her Minnesota House webpage several days after Kern produced a video pointing out that if she was born in 1981, Omar would have exceeded the legal age to acquire U.S. citizenship through her father, as she claimed, if he naturalized in 2000, another claim not yet proven.
“Two days after I published that video on social media, she called the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library and asked that her birth year be changed from 1981 to 1982,” Kern told us in May 2022. “She also did it on her congressional page and Wikipedia. To me, that should raise a red flag.”
As we reported last month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) told Kern it was unable to locate any naturalization records for “Nur Said Elmi Mohamed,” including under “all variations of the subject’s name.”
On August 1, the FBI responded to our FOIA request by stating, in part:
You have requested records on one or more third party individuals. Please be advised the FBI will neither confirm nor deny the existence of such records pursuant to FOIA exemptions… The mere acknowledgment of the existence of FBI records on third-party individuals could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. This is our standard response to such requests and should not be taken to mean that records do, or do not, exist. As a result, your request has been closed…
If you submitted your request through the FBI’s eFOIPA portal and you are receiving correspondence through standard mail, it was determined your request did not meet the eFOIPA terms of service.
Enclosed with the response was a list of exemptions under the FOIA.
A second response dated August 3, 2023 states a different reason for the agency’s inability to fulfill the request. “Your letter does not contain enough descriptive information to permit a search of our records,” it states. “Therefore, your request is being administratively closed. In accordance with Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 16.3(b), please provide us more specific information.
“Complete name,” “Birth date,” “Place of birth” and “Place of death” were given as examples of “specific information which could assist in locating potentially responsive records within a reasonable amount of effort.”
Wow, they gave you nothing, but had so much to say about it. No wonder they call it the “deep state”
The corruption runs deep, that’s why it’s called the Deep State. The people embedded in these government agencies are as slimy as they come, that’s why it’s called The Swamp. All we can do is start by making the right changes at the local levels to start (Cities and Counties).
Until we address this government as our largest criminal enterprise operating outside law or justice nothing changes. Our elected on both sides of the aisle have their interests and the interests of those who own them first and foremost, We are disposable to them. Both sides support weaponizing of agencies.
Thank you, Sharon and AJ Kern, for this public service announcement.
Let’s now consider Canada Cruz and Barry Obama-Soetoro and Canada Kamala and Vivek Ramaswammy and Nikki Haley, and others, as nbC-criminals worthy of prosecution and punishment, UNTIL THEY EACH PUBLISH THEIR IRREFUTABLE VERIFIABLE UNCONTESTED CITIZENSHIP(S) to possibly exonerate, or Constitutionally-incriminate, themselves!
Our lawless U.S. Government led by RICO-criminals today must be ignored on this citizenship crisis lest we, too, become their co-RICO-criminals.
For example, in the above FBI letter of response to Sharon, we see Title 5 USC Section 552 (b)(6): “…the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy…”, is one formal U.S. Government attempt to deny any U.S. citizen from knowing the citizenship(s) of any candidate/incumbent/ex-incumbent for or from within the highest offices of our land!
Who would surrender their mind to this unconsented bureaucratic farce majeure?
This means that our errant U.S. Government insists on covering-up the citizenship(s) of all the highest office-holders of our land from its private U.S. citizens on Main Street USA, its U.S. citizen-voters and its U.S. citizen-soldiers! This citizenship-cover-up-crisis must end!
Another example is any U.S. citizen being denied “standing” when challenging and taking on the burden of proof of citizenship(s) for any candidate/incumbent/ex-incumbent, like enigmatic nbC-alien Barry Obama-Soetoro: http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/birther%20case%20list.pdf
We the People (you and me), the first three words of our sacred U.S. Constitution, are ultimately responsible for all conditions of property and all behaviors within our sovereign borders, therefore, We the People on Main Street USA must rise up from otherwise cowering U.S. Government subjects to responsible adult U.S. citizens and demand the removal of U.S. Government citizenship(s)-cover-ups for the highest candidates and office-holders of our land!