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Republican Sam Slom issued the claims in a radio interview

He does think Obama was born in Hawaii but questioned Barack Obama Sr as father

Trump: There's a 'big possibility' President Obama has violated the Constitution

Arizona vetoes bill requiring presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens

A member of the Hawaii State Senate said today he believes Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father.

In an extraordinary outburst, Republican Sam Slom said the 'real issue' behind the reluctance of the President, who says he was born in Hawaii, to release full details from his birth certificate was unlikely to be because he wanted to hide his place of birth.

'My particular point of view... is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what's on the birth certificate,' Slom said in an interview on New York's WABC 770 AM radio station.

'It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the father,' Slom said.

In recent months, the birthplace of Obama has become a burning issue, with detractors of the President questioning whether he was in fact born in Kenya - even though Hawaii officials have certified he was born in the U.S. state.

Slom, who said he once lived in the same building as Obama in Hawaii's capital, said: 'My belief is that there is a birth certificate, he was born here, but that there is information that for reasons known only to him he doesn't want released.

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So-called 'birthers' claim there's no proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S and is therefore ineligible to be president.

Many of the sceptics suggest he was actually born in Kenya, his father Barack Obama Sr's home country, or even Indonesia where he spent part of his childhood with his mother and step father Lolo Soetoro.

The President maintains he was born in Hawaii but, although the Obama campaign issued a Certificate of Live Birth in the run-up to the election, he has since refused to produce a long-form version, leaving opposition, including a very vocal Donald Trump, questioning his eligibility to serve.

President Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham met his father at a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in 1960.

Obama Sr, from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya, had been the school's first African student. He was 23 and had come to Hawaii to get a better education.

Obama Sr and Dunham married on Maui in February 1961, when Dunham was already three months pregnant with Barack.

What Dunham didn't realise however was that her husband had left behind a pregnant wife Kezia and child in Kenya.

Baby Barack was born on August 4, 1961, supposedly in Hawaii. In fact 'Barack Hussain Obama II' is seen highlighted in a computer generated birth index from 1960-1964 in a Hawaii State government binder held at the State Department of Health in Honolulu.

His mother Dunham was just 18.

She lived in Seattle with her young son, while Obama Sr continued his studies in Hawaii, graduating in 1962.

He then won a scholarship to Harvard and in the autumn of 1962 moved to Boston, Massachusetts, leaving Dunham and the young Barack behind.

Dunham went back to Honolulu and continued with her studies, while her parents, WWII veteran Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunhm helped to bring the young Barack up.

The relationship between her and Obama Sr soured and the couple divorced in January 1963 - Obama Sr did not contest it.

The last time Barack Obama saw his father was in 1971 when he was 10 years old. Obama Sr was killed 11 years later in a car accident in 1982.

Of his early childhood, President Obama has said 'That my father looked nothing like the people around me - that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk - barely registered in my mind.'

Dunham moved with her six-year-old son to Jakarta, Indonesia in October 1967 to live with her new husband Lolo Soetoro.

As well as his birth certificate, the U.S. President has fought to keep his school records, employment records and medical records hidden.

'Why would anybody, let alone the president of the United States, spend millions of dollars in legal fees to keep that hidden?

'As long as that goes on,' he concluded, 'I think it's a legitimate issue,' Slom said.

Earlier this month Donald Trump publicly questioned the location of Obama's birthplace in an interview with the Today show, claiming there is a 'big possibility' President Obama has violated the Constitution.

The real estate tycoon, who is running in the race to be the Republican presidential candidate, said he had sent investigators to Hawaii to uncover 'one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond'.

'I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding,' Trump said.

In an interview with CNN Trump pointed out that there are no photos of President Obama from when he was younger, only in his teenage years.

He also claims that no one remembers him from school.

He said: 'If you go back to my first grade, my kindergarten, people remember me. Nobody from those early years remembers him.

'If you're going to be president of the United States, it says very profoundly you have to be born in this country.'

Sarah Palin has also jumped on the Trump 'birther' bandwagon, despite claiming earlier in the year that the issue was a distraction from more important issues.

'Obviously there is something that the president doesn't want people to see, that he sees going to great lengths to make sure it isn't shown. And I think that's perplexing for a lot of people,' she said.

Last week, Republican Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer, vetoed a bill that would have required presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names could appear on the state's ballot - which was widely viewed as targeting Mr Obama - calling it a 'bridge too far.'

The bill requires presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens before they can be included on Arizona's ballot and receive any votes from the state.

Candidates who don't have a long form of their birth certificate are also given the option to show two alternative documents, including a baptismal or circumcision certificate, a hospital birth record or a post-partum medical record.

The Obama campaign has previously released a 'certification of live birth in the run-up to the election.

The Associated Press also found a listing for a boy named Barack Hussein Obama II born in Hawaii, in a record book at the Hawaii vital records office. This is the only government birth information, called 'index data,' available to the public.

Trump has repeatedly stoked the birther fires recently, and last month called on Mr Obama to 'show his birth certificate.' Trump said he has investigators in Hawaii searching for more information.

'Nobody has come in and said they're investigating for Donald Trump,' Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo, told AP, after acknowledging they could've come in without identifying themselves as representing Trump.

What the would-be sleuths won't find is Mr Obama's 'long-form birth certificate,' a confidential one-page document containing his original birth records kept on file in the first floor of the Department of Health.

Those original birth records typically include additional birth details, such as the hospital and delivering doctor, said Dr Chiyome Fukino, the state's former health director who twice looked at and publicly confirmed Mr Obama's original long-form birth records.

But the birther conspiracy theory refuses to go away.

The latest New York Times-CBS News poll found that 45 per cent of adult Republicans said they believe Mr Obama was born in another country, and 22 per cent said they don't know.

Only one-third of Republicans said they believe the president is native born. The same poll a year ago found that a plurality of Republicans believed the president was born in the U.S.

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Obama won't produce birth certificate because it would reveal TRUE identity of his father: Hawaii senator's extraordinary claim

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Republican Sam Slom issued the claims in a radio interview He does think Obama was born in Hawaii but questioned Barack Obama Sr as father Trump: There's a 'big possibility' President Obama has violated the Constitution Arizona vetoes bill requiring presidential candidates to prove they are U.S.

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Obama Went To Punahou School

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CAMBRIDGE (CBS) - Two former Harvard Law School administrators are accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an account meant to help students with disabilities.

In a criminal complaint the I-Team obtained, Harvard University police allege Meg DeMarco, 33, and Darris Saylors, 32, used the funds to purchase laptops, iPads, DVDs, jewelry, and even a few X-rated items. In all, the police investigation said the women stole about $110,000.

According to the court documents, things started to unravel in November 2013 when a new budget manager at the law school noticed some discrepancies.

Both DeMarco and Saylors resigned from their positions at the Dean of Students office while a lengthy police investigation ensued.

The probe revealed purchases of dozens of laptops, iPads, iPods and other electronics. Court documents say a subpoena to Apple traced the items to DeMarco's home in Chelsea and Saylors' apartment in Cambridge. Police also discovered items at the homes of Saylors' friends and family in California, Washington and Tennessee.

Kristina Vu is a second-year law student who is blind and uses a guide dog to navigate campus. She was shocked when she heard the allegations.

"It's horrifying," she told the I-Team. "Knowing that someone is out there taking away those crucial resources from the vulnerable student population that needs it to succeed is honestly very appalling to me."

Court documents say DeMarco used a mobile card reader to deposit school money directly into her banking account.

Meantime, Saylors is accused of frequenting Amazon for a long list of online purchases like purses, clothing and jewelry. The investigation even found she used the Dean of Students purchasing card to buy sex toys.

Police say she then tried to hide the purchases in budget documents by changing the descriptions to things like, "textbooks for disabilities accommodations."

"What procedural safeguards were they lacking that allowed something like this to happen?" Vu wondered.

In a statement, Harvard Law School spokeswoman Michelle Deakin said the criminal charges stem from an internal financial audit.

"As a result of this matter, the Law School implemented additional layers of controls governing the use of its credit accounts and purchasing protocols," Deakin wrote.

Saylors, who now lives out of state, did not respond to calls or emails requesting comment.

However, the I-Team recently caught up to DeMarco as she arrived for work at Babson College. Instead of a defense, the former Harvard Law administrator offered an apology.

"It was a big job and I made mistakes," DeMarco told the I-Team. "I never intended to harm the university. I'm very sorry and will do everything in my power to rectify the situation."

Saylors and DeMarco are scheduled to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court on Wednesday.

Elsie Tellier is involved with the Harvard College Disability Alliance, a group that advocates for student accommodations. Tellier, a sophomore with cystic fibrosis, said funds allocated for those purposes are essential.

"Without it, we couldn't be students," Tellier told the I-Team. "Hearing this is just outrageous and extremely upsetting. I really hope this is a wake-up call for Harvard to take better account of where the money is going."
Ryan Kath can be reached at rkath@cbs.com. You can also follow him on Twitter or connect on Facebook.

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CAMBRIDGE (CBS) - Two former Harvard Law School administrators are accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an account meant to help students with disabilities. In a criminal complaint the I-Team obtained, Harvard University police allege Meg DeMarco, 33, and Darris Saylors, 32, used the funds to purchase laptops, iPads, DVDs, jewelry, and even a few X-rated items. In all, the police investigation said the women stole about $110,000.

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Obama's Birthday Is August 4, 1961

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Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii

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The Kenyan bowed his head as his captors opened the prison cell door to deliver another brutal whipping - a punishment meted out after he was accused of taking part in the independence movement against the British colonial authorities.

The man had been working as a cook for a British Army officer. And his name? Hussein Onyango Obama - President Barack Obama's paternal grandfather.

He had been arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high-security prison. There, according to his family, he was subjected to horrific violence. They say British soldiers used torture in an effort to get him to reveal rebel secrets.

'The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip him every morning and evening till he repented,' says Sarah Onyango, Hussein Onyango's third wife, and the woman President Obama calls 'Granny Sarah'.

Mrs Onyango, now 89, says 'white soldiers' visited the prison every two or three days to carry out 'disciplinary action' on the inmates in, what she terms, 'the British torture chambers'.

She details awful abuse. 'They would squeeze his private parts (testicles) with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together with his head facing down,' she says.

'There were beatings and torture. That was the time we realised that the British were actually not friends but, instead, enemies. My husband had worked so diligently for them, only to be arrested and detained. He called the British "beasts and traitors in human skin".'

This week, she told the Mail in an exclusive interview that she believes that learning of the torture meted out to his grandfather turned her grandson, the U.S. President, against Britain. Sitting under a mango tree in the garden of her modest home in Kogelo village, Kenya, surrounded by the family's chickens, cows and goat, she recalls telling Barack Obama his family history on his first visit to Kenya in 1988.

'I narrated the whole story to Barack one evening to help him understand our family's past. He wasn't amused at all. He expressed quite a lot of concern about why the British had to punish his grandfather "on his own soil".

'It was like a death camp. Detainees died from torture'

'He said the whole act sounded barbaric. He wondered why the British never respected African culture. The arrest, he said, was outrageous.' Shockingly, she adds: 'Generally, my grandson has never believed the British do anything for a common good, rather than their selfish interests.'

Did British soldiers really torture President Obama's grandfather? As we will see, some elements of this highly emotive story have been twisted through the passage of time.

But whatever the truth, these bitter tales form part of the Obama family folklore, and seem to have left the U.S. President with a vehemently anti-British outlook.

So has Obama's memory of his grandfather's treatment influenced his aggressive reaction to BP over its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill?

The Government has become increasingly concerned by Obama's anti-British rhetoric. For example, he has often referred to the global company as 'British Petroleum', although it changed its name to BP more than a decade ago, and even compared the disaster to 9/11.

But this is not the first time he has paid little heed to the so-called Special Relationship. When he entered the Oval office, he immediately returned a bust of Winston Churchill that was on loan from Britain.

And during the recent stand- off between Britain and Argentina over oil rights around the Falkland Islands, America was less than supportive.

So what exactly happened in that prison cell some 60 years ago, and just how has it shaped the American President's view of Britain?

In order to answer that question, we need to go back to the years before the bloody Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya.

The British colonial presence in Kenya formally began in 1895, when white settlers were given huge tracts of rich farmland. Kenya became a British colony in 1920.

Settlers arrived in increasing numbers as tales of Kenya's cocktail hour 'Happy Valley' lifestyle reached British shores. It was a time of dispossession and violence for the black population. Calls for Kenyan independence grew - led by the anticolonial party Mau Mau, which is said to mean 'get out, get out'.

In 1952, the British declared a State of Emergency after a spate of strikes and violent attacks. Up to 80,000 Mau Mau supporters were arrested in one month alone, and tens of thousands were killed.

'The British never do anything for the common good'

Hussein Obama served with the British Army in Burma, Ceylon and Arabia during World War II. Like many veterans, he returned to Africa hoping to win freedom from colonial rule.

A Muslim member of the Luo tribe from western Kenya, he joined the Kikuyu tribesmen leading the Mau Mau rebellion.

'He did not like the way British soldiers and colonialists were treating Africans, especially members of an organisation called the Kikuyu Central Association, whose members were believed to be secretly taking oaths, promising to kill the white settlers and colonialists,' says Mrs Onyango.

In his book, Dreams From My Father, written when he was 33, President Obama implies that his grandfather was not directly involved in the uprising. His step-grandmother - who attended the President's inauguration in Washington DC - contradicts him.

She says: 'His job as cook to a British officer made him a useful informer for the secret "oathing" movement which would later form the Mau Mau rebellion.'

The oaths to kill white settlers were used by Mau Mau as part of their initiation ceremony. It is believed Hussein Obama was tried in a magistrates' court on charges of political sedition or membership of an illegal organisation, but the records have not survived.

Professor David Anderson, director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, says: 'To arrest a Luo ex-soldier, who must have been a senior figure in the community, is pretty serious. They must have had some damn good evidence.'

Mrs Onyango believes her late husband was denounced to the authorities by his white employer, or a neighbour with whom he had a feud.

An outspoken man, it seems Obama accused this official of collecting excessive taxes and pocketing the money.

According to Mrs Onyango, her husband was arrested by two soldiers, and taken to Kamiti prison, the national maximum-security prison outside Nairobi. 'This was like a death camp because some detainees died while being tortured,' says Mrs Onyango. 'We were not allowed to see him, not even to take him food.'

She says her husband was told that he would be killed or maimed unless he confessed what he knew. He was beaten until he promised 'never to rejoin any groups opposed to the white man's rule'.

She says: 'The daily whipping was done by the black African warders, but the torture and other severe beatings were being carried out by the white British soldiers themselves.'

Even after he had repented, the physical abuse allegedly continued. Mrs Onyango says some of her husband's fellow prisoners were beaten to death with clubs.

She says: 'All his fellow captives who were arrested attempting to oppose the white man's rule were tortured, and some of them even died while in custody. My late husband was lucky to have left Kamiti prison alive.'

Dressed in flowing green African robes and a headscarf, Mrs Onyango became visibly upset when remembering the trauma of those years.

She told the Mail: 'His arrest in 1949 was a real turning point in my life. At that time, the British soldiers were famous for maiming and killing African captives, especially those who were linked to secret groups that wanted the white man to go back home to their country.

'So when he was arrested, I knew life had come to an end for me and my family. For two years, we couldn't see him nor hear from him.'

She adds: 'Since he was the breadwinner of the family, his arrest was not just about him. It put to a near halt the lives of all those who depended on him. Life was very difficult. We spent long nights without food, not even paraffin to light our lantern lamps. Our lives were full of darkness in every sphere.'

Perhaps it is inevitable, in a family story re-told many years after it took place, that some elements of Hussein Obama's tale appear hazy.

But Mrs Onyango describes one element of her husband's 'torture' which is open to interpretation. She says: 'The white soldiers would spray his body with an itching chemical. This would make him scratch his body till it bled.'

However, it is more likely that Mr Onyango was simply being treated for body lice with a chemical delousing treatment commonly used on prisoners.

Certainly, detention camps were set up by the British authorities during the uprising. They have been described by some historians as 'Kenya's Gulag'.

At the height of the rebellion, an estimated 71,000 Kenyans were held in prison camps. The vast majority were never convicted in court.

Several hundred letters from camp inmates survive in the Kenyan National Archives testify to appalling camp conditions, forced labour, torture and starvation.

Mr Onyango was in his mid-50s when he was arrested, and according to his widow, his imprisonment left him mentally scarred and prematurely aged. She says he bore the physical marks of torture to his grave.

In his memoir, Barack Obama described his grandfather's return to the family's village. 'When he returned, he was very thin and dirty.

He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice.'

'Granny Sarah' told him: 'He was so ashamed, he refused to enter his house or tell us what had happened.

Instead, he called me to boil him water and bring him one of his razors. He shaved off his hair, and I had to help him bathe for a very long time.'

For some time, he was too traumatised to speak about his experiences. Mrs Onyango told her grandson: 'From that day on, I saw that he was now an old man.' This week she told us: 'My husband rarely spoke about the British and colonial rule after his arrest. All I know is that he hated them.

'After serving the British very diligently, they turned him into enemy number one.
'His awful tales of his experiences at the British torture chambers always moved his emotions. He wondered why the British never respected African culture.

'Elders and old people in Luo and many tribes in Kenya are usually seen as the final leadership in the society and are thus immune to any punishment. Arresting an old man was an extreme violation of our culture. Barack believes the arrest was outrageous. He said the colonialists only came to maim our people and take away our resources.

The old man would shed tears at the mention of the British and colonial rule. He simply hated them.'

Barack Obama remains close to his step-grandmother - the pair talked late last week, when his Vice-President, Joe Biden, was in Kenya. Mama Sarah, as she is known locally, says the President telephoned her to find out how Kenyans had reacted to his decision to send his principal assistant, rather that making the trip to Kenya himself.

Asked whether she believes that Obama's view of Britain has been influenced by the family history, she says: 'Yes - because President Obama is a strong believer in family units.

'He didn't shy away from saying the British wronged my family by arresting my husband. President Obama believes perhaps we could have been better off had my husband not been arrested.

'I don't think his tough statements on the oil spill are influenced by past family experiences with the British authorities.

'He is simply a perfectionist who believes people must be made to pay for their mistakes. He is doing what is expected of him by his electorate.'

She adds: 'I am personally not angry at the British, but I strongly feel they must be made to pay for the tortures and atrocities they committed, otherwise history will judge them harshly.'

Mr Onyango, who died in 1975 at the age of 80, held a lifelong grudge against the British for the way he had been treated, yet he was doubtful that the independence movement would succeed.

'How can the African defeat the white man,' he told his son, the future President's father, 'when he cannot even make his own bicycle?'

His son and grandson went on to prove him wrong. Barack Obama Senior, the President's father, won a prestigious scholarship to the University of Hawaii in 1959, where he met President Obama's white mother.

The programme was sponsored by John F. Kennedy to train young Kenyans to rule their own country. The nation became independent in 1963.

Having abandoned his young wife and child in Hawaii, Obama's father returned to Kenya - but betrayed his early promise, sliding into alcoholism. He was killed in a car crash in 1982.

The young future U.S. President was brought up in Hawaii and Indonesia.
In his best-selling memoir, he chronicles his emotive journey to find his roots in Kenya back in 1988.

He describes flying from Heathrow Airport to Nairobi, sitting next to a young Englishman - who gave him his own disparaging view on Africa's problems.

He recalls: 'Beside me the young Brit was snoring softly now, his glasses askew on his fin-shaped nose. Was I angry at him? I wondered.'

Arriving in Kenya, he heard at Granny Sarah's knee the family folklore, and the story of his grandfather's humiliation at the hands of the British.

What's clear is that this episode, and Britain's colonial rule, has left a deep scar on the Obama family.

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The real reason President Obama loathes the British... his grandfather was tortured in a Kenyan prison

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The Kenyan bowed his head as his captors opened the prison cell door to deliver another brutal whipping - a punishment meted out after he was accused of taking part in the independence movement against the British colonial authorities. The man had been working as a cook for a British Army officer.

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