Obama never lived in Connecticut, never worked in Connecticut, his parents never resided in Connecticut so why a social security number associated with Connecticut?
September 14, 2012
A Possible Explanation for Obama’s Connecticut Social Security Number
By Jack Cashill
As I reported on Tuesday, Barack Obama has yet to provide an explanation for how he came to have a Social Security number that begins with the Connecticut prefix “042.”
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert read the piece. He has been in Hawaii doing follow-up research on his insightful new documentary, Dreams from My Real Father, and he sent me the single best explanation I have yet to see.
What intrigued me about this story from the moment Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels first came across Obama’s Connecticut SSN was the ineptness of the left-wing explanations.
“Numbers are assigned based on the return address on the request envelope, not residency,” crowed Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post, as though he had said something meaningful. Linkins suggested two possible explanations, both preposterous.
One is that Obama applied for his SSN as a little boy in Indonesia for no known reason, and the application just happened to be processed in Connecticut for no known reason, too.
For the second, Linkins cited the argument of Carole Gilbert (no relation to Joel Gilbert) in the Yahoo-related “Associated Content.” Said Carole Gilbert, presumably with a straight face, “In fact, Barack Obama’s dad attended college in Connecticut and in 1977, Obama was college aged; is it beyond reason to consider that he might have checked out his father’salma mater?”
Last time I checked, Harvard was in Massachusetts. The closest town to Harvard in Connecticut is about 90 minutes away, and there is no record at all that Obama Sr. lived there, let alone that Obama visited his imaginary alma mater and just happened to apply for a Social Security card while visiting.
On the respectable right, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly finessed this claim. “[Obama’s] father lived in Connecticut for several years,” O’Reilly said inaccurately on air last April. He added that “babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents.” Wrong again.
The left-leaning fact-checking service Snopes.com addresses the SSN issue, but evasively. It leads with a red herring about a man named Jean Paul Ludwig, whose SSN Obama is allegedly using. “False,” says Snopes. But Daniels has never mentioned a Ludwig or anyone else.
Snopes then repeats the irrelevant detail that Obama would only need to have sent his application in from Connecticut, but how or why the 16-year-old Obama could or would have done so is overlooked.
Snopes concludes that “the most likely explanation” is a “simple clerical or typographical error.” Obama, they contend, lived in the Hawaii zip code of 96814, while the zip code for Danbury, CT is 06814. As it happens, “clerical error” is the same excuse used to explain away Obama’s claim to a Kenyan birth in his literary agent’s 1991 promotional piece.
Joel Gilbert suggests a more likely explanation. In doing his research in Hawaii, Gilbert heard from several sources that pre-statehood, every institution or branch of government in Hawaii was dominated by the Japanese syndicate known as the “Yakuza, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and a complicit bureaucracy. “After statehood in 1959 the Federal Government came in, and the syndicate went underground, but maintained the same control, and does so to this day,” says Gilbert.
“Hawaii was and is a corrupt state,” Gilbert continues. He was told by retired Honolulu police detectives that in the state bureaucracy, “anything could be purchased, including Social Security numbers.” These were real numbers, likely available because the original card holder was dead. The sellers trafficked in SSNs that did not originate in Hawaii. That way, if the person using the phony SSN were ever caught, the crime would be traced back to the issuing state, not the Hawaii office.
Gilbert’s theory is that the SSN problem is related to the question of Obama’s birth certificate, which is required to get a SSN. Lacking a valid birth certificate, Obama was forced to buy an SSN so he could get his first job at the Baskin Robbins in 1977. In this theory, Obama was sold an SSN that was Connecticut-based so it couldn’t be traced back to the Hawaii office.
The easiest way to test this theory and establish the truth is to ask the people who know. WND’s veteran White House correspondent Les Kinsolving tried to do just this at a press briefing a few years back. Predictably, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs laughed Kinsolving off and switched the subject to the birth certificate.
In a televised address two years ago, Obama famously said, “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.” So could someone in the media please ask him about that “042”? We can be sure they would be asking questions if Mitt Romney had a Hawaii-based SSN, and they would not be satisfying themselves with “clerical error.”
As I reported on Tuesday, Barack Obama has yet to provide an explanation for how he came to have a Social Security number that begins with the Connecticut prefix “042.”
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert read the piece. He has been in Hawaii doing follow-up research on his insightful new documentary, Dreams from My Real Father, and he sent me the single best explanation I have yet to see.
What intrigued me about this story from the moment Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels first came across Obama’s Connecticut SSN was the ineptness of the left-wing explanations.
“Numbers are assigned based on the return address on the request envelope, not residency,” crowed Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post, as though he had said something meaningful. Linkins suggested two possible explanations, both preposterous.
One is that Obama applied for his SSN as a little boy in Indonesia for no known reason, and the application just happened to be processed in Connecticut for no known reason, too.
For the second, Linkins cited the argument of Carole Gilbert (no relation to Joel Gilbert) in the Yahoo-related “Associated Content.” Said Carole Gilbert, presumably with a straight face, “In fact, Barack Obama’s dad attended college in Connecticut and in 1977, Obama was college aged; is it beyond reason to consider that he might have checked out his father’salma mater?”
Last time I checked, Harvard was in Massachusetts. The closest town to Harvard in Connecticut is about 90 minutes away, and there is no record at all that Obama Sr. lived there, let alone that Obama visited his imaginary alma mater and just happened to apply for a Social Security card while visiting.
On the respectable right, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly finessed this claim. “[Obama’s] father lived in Connecticut for several years,” O’Reilly said inaccurately on air last April. He added that “babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents.” Wrong again.
The left-leaning fact-checking service Snopes.com addresses the SSN issue, but evasively. It leads with a red herring about a man named Jean Paul Ludwig, whose SSN Obama is allegedly using. “False,” says Snopes. But Daniels has never mentioned a Ludwig or anyone else.
Snopes then repeats the irrelevant detail that Obama would only need to have sent his application in from Connecticut, but how or why the 16-year-old Obama could or would have done so is overlooked.
Snopes concludes that “the most likely explanation” is a “simple clerical or typographical error.” Obama, they contend, lived in the Hawaii zip code of 96814, while the zip code for Danbury, CT is 06814. As it happens, “clerical error” is the same excuse used to explain away Obama’s claim to a Kenyan birth in his literary agent’s 1991 promotional piece.
Joel Gilbert suggests a more likely explanation. In doing his research in Hawaii, Gilbert heard from several sources that pre-statehood, every institution or branch of government in Hawaii was dominated by the Japanese syndicate known as the “Yakuza, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), and a complicit bureaucracy. “After statehood in 1959 the Federal Government came in, and the syndicate went underground, but maintained the same control, and does so to this day,” says Gilbert.
“Hawaii was and is a corrupt state,” Gilbert continues. He was told by retired Honolulu police detectives that in the state bureaucracy, “anything could be purchased, including Social Security numbers.” These were real numbers, likely available because the original card holder was dead. The sellers trafficked in SSNs that did not originate in Hawaii. That way, if the person using the phony SSN were ever caught, the crime would be traced back to the issuing state, not the Hawaii office.
Gilbert’s theory is that the SSN problem is related to the question of Obama’s birth certificate, which is required to get a SSN. Lacking a valid birth certificate, Obama was forced to buy an SSN so he could get his first job at the Baskin Robbins in 1977. In this theory, Obama was sold an SSN that was Connecticut-based so it couldn’t be traced back to the Hawaii office.
The easiest way to test this theory and establish the truth is to ask the people who know. WND’s veteran White House correspondent Les Kinsolving tried to do just this at a press briefing a few years back. Predictably, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs laughed Kinsolving off and switched the subject to the birth certificate.
In a televised address two years ago, Obama famously said, “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.” So could someone in the media please ask him about that “042”? We can be sure they would be asking questions if Mitt Romney had a Hawaii-based SSN, and they would not be satisfying themselves with “clerical error.”
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Why does the article appear twice (repeats itself)?
First. “Numbers are assigned based on the return address on the request envelope, not residency,” crowed Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post, as though he had said something meaningful."
This is wrong as after 1971 they were based on the zip code of the return address and they were never based on residence address.
Second. "Gilbert’s theory is that the SSN problem is related to the question of Obama’s birth certificate, which is required to get a SSN. Lacking a valid birth certificate, Obama was forced to buy an SSN so he could get his first job at the Baskin Robbins in 1977."
This is wrong as prior to 1978 children under the age of 18 did not need to provide proof of citizenship or an ID. Therefore to get a SSN in 1977 when he was 16 years old, he or his grandparents could get one without ID. No need to go on the black market.
From the Social Security website:
"On April 15, 1974, SSA implemented evidence requirements (age, identity, and citizenship/alien status) for applicants for an original SSN who are foreign-born, or are U.S.-born and age 18 or older. Then, on May 15, 1978, SSA began requiring evidence of age, identity, and citizenship/alien status from all applicants for original SSNs, and evidence of identity for replacement Social Security cards. In addition, all foreign-born applicants for replacement cards were required to submit evidence of citizenship/alien status."
We get this, however it still leaves the question about ConnecticutMike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
Did you know that President Eisenhower received his SSN in 1962 and that his SS-5 card lists his address as Gettysburg, PA but his SSN has a California prefix?
The Social Security Administration told Susan Daniels that her conclusions about how numbers were issued by residences was wrong.
Did you know that in 2006 the error rate for in-office visits to a Social Security office was close to 8%?
Now look down at your keyboard – where is the 9 key and where is the 0 key. Any chance a clerk hit 0 instead of 9?
Ok Mr. Hughes, valid point. It could be the strained eyes from a data entry clerk on a keyboard maybe. As for Eisenhower I have my thoughts on that and will release a report shortly. Seem like every aspect if Barry's life has some form or excuse.Mike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
Or it could be just like Mr. Hughes said someone was typing a 9 and accidentally hit the 0 on the keyboard. Data entry is droll and boring. Logical explanations somehow are "excuses". Actually that's what birthers do. Every time they are given something rational they make excuses to avoid admitting they're wrong.
How are the SS-5 cards processed when they arrived at the Maryland center? How many cards did each clerk type? Since the SSA doesn't consider this an error, it wouldn't even take eye strain. Just someone type quickly.
Birthers also claim that there are all these "excuses" with Obama's records, but never compare it to anyone else. How many errors are there in Reagan's records? Trumps's? Do you know? Have you looked? Or is this more uneducated speculation?
BTW, Eisenhower was on vacation in Palm Springs in April, 1962.
Reagan didn't even have a birth certificate until he was an adult. John F Kennedy didn't get one until he was 16. Nixon's was released via court order. Johnson's just had his last name on it at birth. It wasn't amended until he was vice president. But to birthers only Obama's had to be "fake"
Is this a theory or proof?Mike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
Which part? You not understanding your own claims?
Nixon's certificate is stamped "Court Order" and was created 29 years after his alleged birth.
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630…
Reagan's
https://southernprogressives.files.wordpress.com/…
Sorry what does this have to do with a social security number? Just saying.Mike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
You are the one that brought up a point about "excuses" in people's records.
Merely pointing out that you compare the "number" in Obama's to nobody else's.
How many SSNs are there in Reagan's records?
Unlike your theories about Mr. Obama's birth certificate and social security numbers what I say is based in reality.
Here's Johnson's BC: https://www.fold3.com/image/29327271?ann=55838f80…
As you can see he had no first or middle name when born and was only named Johnson. This was amended when he was vice president with his chief of staff acting as his witness.
As charles stated below Nixon's was issued 29 years after his birth and was issued via court order: https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630…
Here's reagan's: http://www.safeguardourconstitution.com/images/st…
As you can see it was issued in 1942. 30 years after Reagan was born.
This is purportedly to be JFKs: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7436/9432788430_af0…
Notice again this was issued well after his birth when he was 16. So out of the presidents birth certificates that are available to us; Obama's is the most normal.
Don't forget Eisenhower's birth certificate. Created by affidavit from his brother Arthur who would have been four years old at the time of Eisenhower's birth. And his name at birth was David Dwight Eisenhower. His mother reversed the name sometime after he was born.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLUn5h3XkAAZ9yA?forma…
Note: it says he was born Dennison, Texas but in 01924 and 1929 he said he was born in Tyler, Texas. He said his son was born in Hennen, Colorado (a non-existent town) in 1924 and in Denver in 1929.
Another Conspiracy?Mike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
No, and that is the point.
Life is filled with inconsistencies. Nothing mysterious or unusual.
Only the weak inded see deep states and vast conspiracies.
Ah yes, Reagan.Mike Volin <a href="http://www.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.comwww.wheresobamasbirthcertificate.com<br />570 284 7477
Kristine marcy who founded the SES recruited and gave Obama his fake SSN . The Deep State gave us this traitor .
new video:
3-4-19
Anderson Cooper mocks Joe Arpaio’s forensic investigation, with Larry Klayman & Jerry Corsi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E5BXrOqV494