Obama Threatens Media With Federal Investigation If They Persue Birth Certificate!!
March 13, 2012 83
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.
See how many watched Sheriff Arpaio’s press conference on live-streaming, and discover how you can get more information about the eligibility issue, and tell your friends and neighbors about it.
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.
In a column at American Thinker, Cindy Simpson quoted Ronald Reagan in support of Zullo’s work.
“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.
Wrote Jeff Crouere at the St. Tammany Slidell Sentry:
“Despite a mountain of evidence and new allegations of fraud, the
national news media refuses to cover the Obama birth certificate
scandal.”
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