Joe Arpaio On Birther 'Cold Case Posse' To Orly Taitz: 'There Could Be A Shock There Somewhere'

Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio addressed his 'Cold Case Posse' looking into President Barack Obama's birth certificate at an Arizona tea party meeting with "birther queen" Orly Taitz Tuesday night.

Taitz, who conservative outlet WorldNetDaily says flew in from California on short notice, talked for a few minutes about her claim that the president was not born in the United States. The audience applauded her during her speech, and several members stood up at the end.

"Thanks for your input. We're looking at this very closely," said Arpaio. "I can't tell you everything, but there could be a shock there somewhere that my guys came up with. I can't talk too much about it. It's in the process."

Arpaio said to Taitz, "There are a couple of things you and nobody else here knows anything about yet that could be a little bit exciting."

Arpaio, the sheriff for Phoenix and its environs, repeatedly declined to give specifics on the investigation. "I'm not going to wait forever," he said. "I want to get the report out."

Arpaio defended his 'Cold Case Posse' on local television in September. "I am the chief law enforcement officer, they asked me to look at that situation. I don't dump everything in the wastebasket. So I have my 'Cold Case Posse,' which I've had for five years. It's free. It doesn't cost a penny to the taxpayers. [It's] made up of ex-cops and some lawyers, so let them look at it."

Arpaio has gained national attention for his tough stance on immigration enforcement. He has undertaken many publicized raids in predominately Latino neighborhoods to sweep up undocumented immigrants. A federal grand jury has been investigating him since early 2010 for alleged abuses of power.

President Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1961. Obama's presidential campaign released a digitally-scanned birth certificate and the White House released the long-form document in April. Yet some still refuse to believe that the president was born in the United States.

In April Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed a bill that would have required presidential candidates to prove their citizenship using a birth certificate or a baptismal or circumcision certificate. "This bill is a distraction, and we just simply need to get on with the state's business," she said at the time.

Comments

[torgman3]

03:11 PM on 11/19/2011

So, Sheriff Joe, how the investigation?

[falconsso]

07:49 PM on 11/14/2011

His secret weapon, is his unshown records. SHOW US THE RECORDS !
The Obama records which have not been released include; Passport records, Obama kindergarten records, Punahou School records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, University of Chicago scholarly articles, Illinois State Bar Association records, Illinois State Senate records/schedules(said to be lost), Medical records, Obama/Dunham marriage license, Obama/Dunham divorce documents, Soetoro/Dunham marriage license, Adoption records and of course the long-form Certificate of Live Birth, (his copy, the real one).

[actuallyreadit]

09:38 AM on 11/26/2011

Wow....lol.....the delusion is strong with this one.

[realpolitic]

09:26 PM on 11/05/2011

Arpiao must be pursuing this "investigation" for publicity? Why do the taxpayers in his Arizona county put up with serial human rights lawsuits against him and the lack of respect he has for the minority community? Surely, he is not worth the trouble.

[mmmullen]

10:08 AM on 11/04/2011

The sheriff and his off the books ex-cop 'investigators' smack of vigilantism, not mention an old Dirty Harry plot. Lawyer Taitz should run for office in Arizona or Texas. She'd be a shue in.

[sandeefrancella]

10:08 AM on 11/04/2011

What is wrong with these people in the West ? Too much sun and heat?

[timinhi]

02:24 AM on 11/04/2011

Orly Taitz, a "dentist and lawyer," attended Taft Law School, a non-ABA-accredited online correspondence law school witth a 33% bar passage rate. With that kind of legal background, I shudder to think what kind of credentials she has as a dentist. I'd be scared she would fill a cavity with lead.

[timinhi]

02:16 AM on 11/04/2011

I'm an atheist, but nonetheless, THANK GOD ORLEY TAITZ IS OBVIOUSLY NOT A NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN!

[timinhi]

01:49 AM on 11/04/2011

Morons. I think it sounds like Arpaio is trying to delicately humor this idiot. Why in the first place would she care if Obama is on the Arizona ballot anyway? I would think he will be creamed by the Republican nominee, no matter who it is, in Arizona.

[John Roman]

12:23 PM on 11/03/2011

Whoever or whatever it was that found baby O in Kenya and smuggled him into the country unobserved and set him up with an American mom (in private school in Hawaii so he could get the grades to go to Harvard and become a lawyer) to become the first "Socialist Muslim Afro-American" president in America, all I can say is wow!....Brilliant plan!! And what long term planning!?...sheesh!
Amazing!

[timinhi]

01:51 AM on 11/04/2011

Wasn't he floated down the Nile in a basket and discovered in the bullrushes by Pharoah's mom?

[The Green Knight]

09:32 AM on 11/03/2011

Obama should start suing all these people for defamation.

[liberty82]

11:35 PM on 10/31/2011

In Minor v. Happestett the SC ruled that a natural born citizen is one born in the US to parents (notice the plural) that are citizens. His father was not a US citizen.

[Veneita]

05:29 PM on 11/01/2011

Then that means that at least 6 presidents before Obama were not naturalbborn citizens and it also means donald trump can't run. It is also qyestionable whether Romney

[Veneita]

05:44 PM on 11/01/2011

that means that other than Obama, Andrew Jackson (whose parents were born in Ireland), Jefferson, Buchanan, Arthur, Wilson, and Hoover (all who had only one U.S. born parent, should not have been president. The first two served after the 1790 naturalization act was passed and the other three served after the Minor v. Happersett (Not Happestett) case was decided.

If Obama is not eligible to be president, nor is arpaio whose parents were born in Avellino Italy and came through Ellis Island, nor could donald trump whose mother was born in Scotland http://www.docstoc.com/docs/75021619/donald-trump-birth-certificate, nor could mitt romney whose father was born in Mexico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney.

Finally, Minor v. Happersett includes no reference to "natural born citizens" http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZS.html. Therefore what relevance does it have, exactly?

[Dee Lite808]

09:08 PM on 11/01/2011

It's just another typical misrepresentation by birthers about a case that had nothing to do with citizenship (Minor's citizenship wasn't the issue before the court; rather, did citizenship give you the right to vote. the court found that citizenship did not).

[JJ88998899]

08:37 PM on 11/02/2011

You're misunderstanding the qualification. Plural US citizen parents. The parents do not have to be "natural born" citizens, just US citizens at the time of the child's birth. All of those Presidents that you named (and also Trump and Romney) had parents who had become US Citizens by the time they were born, except for Arthur's father (who has his own "birther" scandal while running for VP--never ran for President--and also lied about his age).

[JRsNana]

11:14 PM on 10/31/2011

Funny, Donald Trump said the same exact thing. And if you believe that he didn't spend taxpayer dollars on his little treasure hunt then there's a bridge in Brooklyn .......

[bordway]

10:53 PM on 10/31/2011

"there could be a shock there somewhere that my guys came up with."

Now this is from a so called law enforcement officer. Essentially he's saying he has evidence of nothing and people cheer. What a sad collection of misguided souls.

[Bigleague]

10:30 PM on 10/31/2011

I could find a bunch of unknown posse gang members to find out suddenly that none of them were born in the US either. Doesn't matter if they were or not, I have a posse that can shock the world and prove that they weren't.
What a bunch of really unbalanced weirdos.

[Mamma Roma]

10:27 PM on 10/31/2011

So, Big Joe's got the dirt that all the Republican money thrown out there couldn't find, not to mention the committee that vets the candidates.

Joe, every time your 15 minutes are up...........you weasel your way into overtime

Go back to your little pond old man, and dream the dreams that BIG FISHES in SMALL PONDS dream............that they have info even the FBI, CIA, and SS doesn't have and everyone will believe them because....... WHY?