Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, Calls On Obama To Release Birth Certificate Microfiche

Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio called on President Barack Obama to release the microfiche of his birth certificate in an interview Tuesday with the Phoenix New Times.

The White House released Obama's long-form birth certificate online in April. Prior to that, the Obama campaign released a copy of his certificate of live birth online.

Despite that evidence, Arpaio wants to see the microfiche of Obama's birth certificate. He claims that the birth of a pair of twins one day after Obama in the same hospital can be seen on microfiche filed with the Hawaii Department of Health. According to Arpaio, if the twins' records are available on microfiche, Obama's should be too, and should put to rest rumors that the White House doctored the copies of Obama's birth certificate it released earlier this year.

"To help the president of the United States, let's go to the microfiche," he said. "All you have to do if you're the president is go to the Department of Health, or whatever, and release the microfiche," he added.

Arpaio created a "Cold Case Posse" to investigate Obama's birth certificate. He added to The New Times that the investigation is a "priority right now."

He talked about his "Posse" last month at a Tea Party meeting where he was a guest speaker. "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," he said. "Birther queen" Orly Taitz also showed up at the meeting to press Arpaio to investigate the birth certificate issue more vigorously.

Arpaio said in September that his "posse" costs nothing to taxpayers and is made up of "ex-cops and some lawyers."

Prior to the long-form birth certificate being released online, former Atlantic correspondent Josh Green wrote about how to investigate Obama's birth certificate in Hawaii last April. His advice: Go to the state library, find the two contemporaneous birth announcements in local newspapers on microfiche and cross-check the address with the city directory. He said that requesting a copy of the birth certificate was not possible due to federal privacy laws.

Arpaio is better known for his tough stance on immigration enforcement. He has undertaken immigration sweeps in predominately Latino areas seeking out traffic violators and other offenders. He is also under investigation by a federal grand jury for abuse of power allegations.

Comments

[Sulayman F]

12:50 AM on 12/09/2011

What is his followup? After the microfiche is shown, clearly he won't give up. Maybe he'll want the blood sample the hospital stored of the newborn Obama?

[Larz Larzen]

11:51 AM on 11/29/2011

"despite that 'evidence' ". What was bandied about cannot be called evidence, whether he has a legitimate BC, or not. Evidence can be examined by experts. Say a murder has been committed; you want to examine some blood that could have been left at the scenen by a perp. Do we swab the blood to examine it scientifically, or do we draw a picture of it?

[torgman3]

12:14 AM on 11/28/2011

1. Why is Sherriff Joe not in prison yet?

2. What happened to the shocker that he has?

[kevhar12]

02:34 PM on 11/26/2011

What`s this the Birther blog?

[Sophist FCD]

02:06 AM on 11/25/2011

"Release the Microfiche"? How would that even work? It's a single document. How does one release something like that to the general public without making the sort of copies that Arpaio has already decided are not sufficient? Someone explain this to me.

[Sarah Parsons]

09:10 PM on 11/27/2011

Also, without releasing private info on others?

[dcran82796]

02:45 PM on 11/24/2011

just a coverup an illegal ailen made president

[urthsong]

08:27 AM on 11/24/2011

The Obama administration already had to ask that the law in Hawaii against public access and copies of the original birth certificates be overridden in this single case to finally quell this Birther nonsense. There are good reasons for this law which many states have. For decades, criminals had taken advantage of full access to the birth certificates to pull scams and hide under other identities. This is beyond the pale.

[ThePelton]

02:36 PM on 11/26/2011

Susan Saxe, who had been involved in a bank robbery in the late 1960's in which a policeman was shot by another suspect, hid out for over thirty years under an assumed name which she got by finding a birth certificate of a girl born the same day as she who had died shortly after birth, and assuming her birth certificate and identity. Enough already!

[Larz Larzen]

11:53 AM on 11/29/2011

Yeah, like some scammer is going to hide under the identity of the POTUS, Stretch.

[manthony139]

01:33 AM on 11/24/2011

the white man wasn't asked for his birth certificate , the white woman wasn't asked for hers, this is pure hatred of a black man for being black!

[ThePelton]

02:37 PM on 11/26/2011

42 White Presidents weren't challenged to prove their citizenship.

[Larz Larzen]

11:54 AM on 11/29/2011

McCain was asked for his, and he provided it. Oh - McCain is White.

[dang47]

03:00 AM on 12/08/2011

give me a break!!!

[billreef]

02:06 AM on 12/22/2011

Blatant lie

[secludedlane]

01:14 AM on 11/24/2011

As Sir Smith previously mentioned, "In Hawaii, you can have EITHER a birth certificat­e OR a certificat­ion of live birth. YOU CAN NOT HAVE BOTH."
Perhaps others from the great state of Hawaii would like to comment on that?

[cd6color59]

07:26 PM on 11/23/2011

Mao-bama could put this to rest.. what's he hiding.. oh ya we know

[OOOOOMY]

06:37 PM on 11/23/2011

One should remember, that one must decide for themselves, not pressured from the many, how to what and how to think. For with Progressive Liberals, one is denied this Liberty of their own thought...for it will not be tolerated....We are all free are we not? .When is the freedom, Liberty, Tolerance and the Diversity of Opinion never to be heard or expressed in a free society and not be tolerated? This is not true Liberty...Liberty is the right to choose how one wants to arrive at a thought or conclusion...or ask any question.
Grant others their right of thought and expression, before one day, you might not be allowed your own right of thought or expression....No One Is Stating You Must Agree.

[Sophist FCD]

02:09 AM on 11/25/2011

Dude, put the spliff down.

[stacknef]

03:35 PM on 11/22/2011

Arpaio created a "Cold Case Posse" to investigate Obama's birth certificate. He added to The New Times that the investigation is a "priority right now." He talked about his "Posse" last month at a Tea Party meeting where he was a guest speaker. "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," he said.
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Im calling BULSHYT on Joe!
Just the way he stated himself shows he's got NOTHING. "there COULD BE a shock......" that my guys CAME UP WITH.... Well Joe, did they or didn't they? Forget the "process" nonsense. did they talk with Trumps "investigators" too, who I think are still in Hawaii diligently soaking up the sun....uh I mean... researching the birth certificate issue.
Perhaps the taxpayers in your county should recall you for wasting their money on something that doesn't fall within your own job requirements.

[OOOOOMY]

06:42 PM on 11/23/2011

stacknef: "Perhaps the taxpayers in your county should recall you for wasting their money on something that doesn't fall within your own job requiremen­ts." ...

Guess you did not see the comment......."Arpaio said in September that his "posse" costs nothing to taxpayers and is made up of "ex-cops and some lawyers"

[BoredofEducation]

05:49 PM on 12/14/2011

Remember when Trump's people "turned up" the goods? Oh wait, they didn't Trump said the did and then..... Nothing.

[stacknef]

03:28 PM on 11/22/2011

Heyyyyyyyyyy Birthers!!!!! You're pathetic (and paranoid, and sociopaths, and ignorant fools easily led by even more duplicious politicians)...

[stacknef]

03:25 PM on 11/22/2011

hey Joe....you're a local sheriff, so get over yourself..you have no input on national affairs.

[Malama Alii]

05:25 PM on 11/18/2011

NO HARD COPY EVER RELEASED.