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Announcing it's "not her lucky day," a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has told an eligibility attorney he has dismissed her case demanding information from the Social Security Administration regarding President Obama's Social Security Number, sought because of suspicions it may be fraudulent.
The case was filed by California attorney Orly Taitz, who has brought many of the major court challenges to Obama's eligibility based on a lack of evidence that he meets the U.S. Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural-born citizen."
The case at hand was filed against
Originally posted by bigwig22
It seems that the POTUS really is above the law.
"The SSA explained that the Privacy Act of 1974 ... protects the personal information of social security number holders," he wrote. "The SSA determined ... the plaintiff had identified no public interest that would be served by disclosure.
"Plaintiff makes no secret of her intention to use the redacted Form SS-5 to identify the holder of social security number xxxx-xxx-4425 – or, as plaintiff puts it, to confirm her suspicion that the president is fraudulently using that number," the judge wrote.
Originally posted by bftroop
Again if you don't have anything to hide. Why hide it?
Originally posted by Helious
Get your heads out of your asses and start focusing on real problems that we can actually solve.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
So ther you go - a law from 1974 prohibits the use of SSN's for the purpose the plaintiff admitted he wanted it - in effect he said "Hey - give me the infoso I can break the law with it" - and the judge quite rightly told him to sod off.
it goes to show that even the POTUS is afforded the protection of the law!
Originally posted by anon72
Well, there you have it.
The POTUS personal info is more important to protect than the atty's/USA right to know etc.
One should not make too much of the "geographical code." It is not meant to be any kind of useable geographical information. The numbering scheme was designed in 1936 (before computers) to make it easier for SSA to store the applications in our files in Baltimore since the files were organized by regions as well as alphabetically. It was really just a bookkeeping device for our own internal use and was never intended to be anything more than that.
Regardless how many laws may have been broken. Sounds to me like she has then scared.
We'll see what any appeal produces but at this point, I would say she won't get too far.
This will help future elections-if nothing else. From now on, you'll see every canidate with the B.C. held high..
Well Except for the 2012 election.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by pcrobotwolf
so never mind that the law prohibits it, and you couldn't use the same thing on any other civil servant, or private citizen........jssut because he's PoTUS he's not allowed the same protection afforded by law as you are.
gotcha.
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by bftroop
What if someone thought you weren't a natural born citizen, and demanded the right to see your SSN info, would you hand it over?
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by pcrobotwolf
Uh, there's a difference when your identity is ensure by that company, but when a random person demands to see the Presidents SSN info, your damn right it's going to be denied.
Edit: I'm not debating the idea that he's not american, just that this is the wrong way to go about getting proof, because if you were to attempt this with anyone you would get the same results.edit on 1-9-2011 by Nobama because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by pcrobotwolf
Uh, there's a difference when your identity is ensure by that company, but when a random person demands to see the Presidents SSN info, your damn right it's going to be denied.
Edit: I'm not debating the idea that he's not american, just that this is the wrong way to go about getting proof, because if you were to attempt this with anyone you would get the same results.edit on 1-9-2011 by Nobama because: (no reason given)