Barack Obama -- Draft Registration Question

Selective Service Registration

Custom Search

Obama's draft registration

Archived in no particular order . . .

Nagging Questions Remain

Did Obama actually ever register with the Selective Service? If so, did he register late? If he registered at all, which birth certificate did he present? Would the COLB shown during the 2008 presidential campaign have been enough?

The Sonoran News has stated that "It became obvious records were created after the fact for Obama and were later changed."

Why has this image been made available to the public through FOIA requests, but his birth certificate, college records, school records, medical records, and passport records have not?

Was an amendment to Obama’s Selective Service file made in 1991 or not?

Why are there two different DLNs for the same SS record?

Why was the record accessed on September 9, 2008, two days after Obama appeared on national TV during the campaign discussing his registration with the Selective Service? Could any FOIA requests resulting from the television interview already have been received at that time by Mr. Flahavan’s office? Was someone trying to cover for Obama and therefore accessed his file soon after his public misstatement of fact?

Background and details here -- in-depth video here . . .

Draft Registration Lie

Debbie Schussle wants to know if President-elect Barack Hussein Obama committed a federal crime in September of this year?

Did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?

It's either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama's official Selective Service registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to me.

But the release of Obama's draft registration and an accompanying document, posted below, raises more questions than it answers. And it shows many signs of fraud, not to mention putting the lie to Obama's claim that he registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by law.

Check out THIS documentation.

Draft Questions

Sharp-eyed Lexie made this observation. Obama's signatures are different on his allegedly counterfeit Selective Service Registration and his Statement of Candidacy. Imagine that?

Selective Service Registration

Candidacy Form

Since the Selective Service Registration form contains a forged signature, then Obama is in violation of the Selective Service Act. Penalties for Failure to Register for the Draft:

• Men who do not register could be prosecuted and, if convicted, fined up to $250,000 and/or serve up to five years in prison. In addition, men who fail to register with Selective Service before turning age 26, even if not prosecuted, will become ineligible for:

• Student Financial Aid -- including Pell Grants, College Work Study, Guaranteed Student/Plus Loans, and National Direct Student Loans.

• U.S. Citizenship -- if the man first arrived in the U.S. before his 26th birthday.

• Federal Job Training -- The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) offers programs that can train young men for jobs in auto mechanics and other skills. This program is only open to those men who register with Selective Service.

• Federal Jobs -- men born after December 31, 1959 must be registered to be eligible for jobs in the Executive Branch* of the Federal government and the U.S. Postal Service.

In addition, several states have added additional penalties for those who fail to register.

* Last time I checked, the President is a member of the Executive Branch, and Obama was definitely born after 12/31/1959. If that isn't his signature, he's NOT ELIGIBLE!

Thanks to all of you who contributed samples of Obama's signature. After viewing a dozen or so samples, this signature, posted at Wikipedia and the one on the Candidacy Form, appears to be the "real deal."

Several readers have made the observation that signatures change over time, and that is true. However, the draft registration form above has been demonstrated to be counterfeit, so the question is, who prepared and signed this forgery, and how did they get it into the Selective Service Data Center?

A Bogus Report?

In 2008, allegations surfaced on a number of websites to the effect that Obama had forged his Selective Service Registration form. This was based on the charge the document in question was created in 1990 not 1980, the postal date stamp had incorrect information on it, and there were allegedly a number of other minor discrepancies with the document. The source of much of this info was a retired Federal Agent who served with the INS.

The allegations were stunning and the story was repeated all over the internet. Indeed, I even referred to these allegations in a story I wrote for the Western Journalism Center. For whatever reason, I soon began to become suspicious of the story as the ability to forge a Selective Service document a decade later is very difficult to believe due to numerous procedural and legal obstacles.

Since I happen to know the former director of the Selective Service who served under Ronald Reagan, I decided to dig into this issue to see if these allegations held up. Sure enough, what I discovered was sloppy research and over-reaching conclusions. Indeed, the story falls apart when one does the most elementary research. There’s no doubt I would love to hammer Obama for forging a federal document but we must let the facts speak for themselves.

The reader needs to review both sources and decide for themselves.

No Identification -- Again

BirtherReport.com reports that according to the law, Barack Obama was required to register for the Selective Service and he had to present proper identification, which he did not. You will see from the form that the "No ID" box is check marked.

Therefore, Obama DID NOT comply with the law, which is as follows:

Proclamation 4771–Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act -- source: The provisions of Proclamation 4771 of July 2, 1980, appear at 45 FR 45247, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 82, unless otherwise noted.

1-3. Manner of Registration.

1-301. Persons who are required to be registered shall comply with the registration procedures and other rules and regulations prescribed by the Director of Selective Service.

1-302. When reporting for registration each person shall present for inspection reasonable evidence of his identity. After registration, each person shall keep the Selective Service System informed of his current address.

Obama's lack of ID, as indicated on the Selective Service Registration Form makes me wonder what type of ID Obama had at the time he actually registered for the Selective Service. Did he have a driver's license? If he did, what documentation, e.g. birth certificate, social security card, etc., did he present to get his Driver's license? I know my DMV marks down what type of identification I bring in to verify my identity. Could the DMV be another avenue to obtain information on Obama?

I don't know whether or not the Selective Service Registration Form is a forgery. It appears that Obama registered the date/month/year he was suppose to register. The SS Proclamation outlines the requirements for males born in 1960 and 1961 and it appears that Obama did comply.

However, Obama did not comply with "each person SHALL present for inspection reasonable evidence of his identity." SHALL means MUST!

Could Obama's non-compliance make him ineligible to hold public office. If this is the case, then the birth certificate and/or dual citizenship may not even matter. Obama would have never been eligible to hold any public office.

So the real question is, did Obama willfully withhold documentation that would verify his identity?

Whatever the case, the Selective Service must have additional written documentation on Obama in a special Selective Service file pertaining to his 1H Classification. Therefore, is it worth a visit to the Local Selective Service Board in Hawaii, or could these files be obtained through an FOIA request?

I just have a "nagging gut feeling" that there is something more to this and no one has bothered to investigate. Looking into it just might yield some valuable information.

U.S. Selective Service In Obama Cover-Up?

Joe Kovacs says that members of the public searching the federal database for Obama's registration are suddenly finding new difficulty, possibly due to the startling revelation of his alleged use of a Connecticut-based Social Security Number.

The Selective Service System, or SSS, collects names of Americans for use by the Department of Defense in the event of a national emergency. On its website, it says it provides the nation "with a structure and a system of guidelines which will provide the most prompt, efficient, and equitable draft possible, if the country should need it."

Regarding Obama, "He is registered. There is no doubt in our minds that he has, and we're quite prepared to say so," SSS public-affairs specialist Dan Amon said, but the agency's online search engine now appears to be precluding the public from seeing Obama's record after allowing unfettered access.

The database allows people to search for registrants as long as a correct name, Social Security Number and date of birth are entered.

On May 5, WorldNetDaily entered the criteria for Obama, using his date of birth as Aug. 4, 1961, and his Social Security Number, which begins with the Connecticut-issued prefix of 042. The Selective Service database instantly issued a "matched record" without a problem that day, indicating Obama's Selective Service Number is 61-1125539-1. It lists date of registration as Sept. 4, 1980.

However, when the same information was re-entered on May 20, and the database did not provide the matched record, but instead posted a message, stating, "Error. Sorry, your request cannot be processed at this time because you have exceeded the daily limit for the verification of these credentials."

The Selective Service was asked what was causing the sudden problem in retrieving records, and Amon said it's likely because many people across the nation are now searching for Obama's records. "If you run into problems, others have, too," he said. Amon says a hacking attempt several years ago prompted the agency to beef up security to prevent future electronic attacks. He initially said the agency created a limit of three verification requests per day for any given record. "If someone in Omaha, Neb., does it on a whim, then someone in Ohio does it, then that's two times."

He said when more than three requests are submitted -- no matter where they're entered from -- people would see the error message noting the daily limit has been exceeded. "It's like 20 people trying to crowd into a doorway," Amon explained. "If nobody else in the world is doing it, if you punch it in the format suggested, [you get good results]; but if others try, then it will shut it down."

However, when valid information was repeatedly entered for another American registrant, it received a matched record without any error message despite dozens of requests in the same day.

Amon later indicated his statement about the limit of three was "more of a guess." He said he checked with the information-technology department about the limit, and admitted, "They got a little edgy."

"They just didn't want to answer it," Amon said, explaining the IT administrators did not wish to "divulge specifics of the system."