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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 757422" data-attributes="member: 12952">                   <img src="http://www.wnd.com/images/header_exclusive.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]BORN IN THE USA?[/SIZE][/FONT]  [FONT=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]Oops! Obama mama passport 'destroyed'[/FONT]   [FONT=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]State Dept. claims records gone for Stanley Ann Dunham prior to 1968[/FONT][FONT=Palatino, Times New Roman, Georgia, Times, serif]By Jerome R. Corsi[/FONT]  [SIZE=-1] © 2010 WorldNetDaily [/SIZE]          <img src="http://www.wnd.com/images/100801stanleyanndunham.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Photo from Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro's 1972 passport records  Last week, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother – but those records for the years surrounding Obama's 1961 birth are missing.  The State Department claims that a 1980s General Services Administration directive had resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "non-vital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965.  Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama's birth.  The claim made in the FOIA response letter that many passport records were destroyed during the 1980s comes despite a statement on the State Department website that claims Passport Services maintains U.S. passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present.  The records that were released, however, do contain interesting  tidbits of new information about Obama's mother, including the odd  listing of two different dates and locations for her marriage to Obama's  Indonesian step-father, Lolo Soetoro.   In the released documents Ann Dunham listed both March 15, 1965, in  Molokai, Hawaii, and alternatively, March 5, 1964, in Maui, Hawaii, as  the dates and times of her marriage.  Ann Dunham later divorced Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii. The divorce  decree took effect on Nov. 5, 1980, but the divorce papers do not list  the date of the marriage.  No marriage certificate between Dunham and Soetoro has yet publicly surfaced, but a released application to amend Ann Dunham's 1965 passport to her married name Stanley Ann Soetoro includes a checked box indicating that a passport officer had seen the marriage certificate.   The released records also document that on Aug. 13, 1968, Ann Dunham applied to have her 1965-issued passport renewed for two years, until July 18, 1970.  Under 22 USC Sec. 217a, from 1959 through 1968, passports were  initially issued for three years, but they could be renewed for an  additional two years.  Obama, by any other name  Also revealed by the released records is a heretofore unknown, alternative name for Barack Obama.  In the 1968 application to renew her 1965 passport, Dunham listed  as her son Barack Hussein Obama, including in parenthesis below the  name, "Saebarkah," in what appears to be a variation of an Indonesian  surname not previously associated in the public record with the president.  For some unexplained reason, the designation of "Barack Hussein  Obama (Saebarkah)" is crossed off the 1968 application by five,  handwritten, diagonal hash marks.   <img src="http://www.wnd.com/images/100801anndunham.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />S. Ann Dunham in Indonesia  Ann Dunham also appears to have used two different variations of her  name in obtaining and amending passports while married to Lolo Soetoro: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro and, without her maiden name, Stanley Ann Soetoro.  On April 27, 1981, Ann Dunham applied from Jakarta, Indonesia, for a U.S. passport,  indicating that she was in Indonesia working on a two-year contract  from the Ford Foundation, from January 1981 through December 1982.  At that time, Ann Dunham was working on a microfinance program  for the Ford Foundation, which was overseen by Peter Geithner, the  father of Timothy Geithner, the current U.S. secretary of the treasury. The State Department released the documents on July 29,  responding to a FOIA request submitted by Christopher Strunk, a New York  resident who has actively pursued obtaining documents regarding Barack  Obama's birth and his eligibility to be president under the "natural born citizen" requirement of Section 1, Article Two of the United States Constitution.  The Ann Dunham passport documents released last week by the State Department in response to the Strunk FOIA request have been <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35163631/Stanley-Ann-Dunham-Obama-Soetoro-Passport-Application-File-Strunk-v-Dept-of-State-FOIA-Release-FINAL-7-29-10" target="_blank">archived on the Internet.</a></blockquote>

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