By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Chiyome Fukino

The primary gatekeeper for those who would like to explore President Obama's original birth documentation on file with the state of Hawaii has left her post.

The Hawaii Department of Health today confirmed to WND that the term for department Director Chiyome Fukino, M.D., ended on Dec. 6 and that she no longer is serving at her previous position, in what is being described as a normal change of command as Gov. Neil Abercrombe takes office.

Abercrombie was sworn in on Monday, Dec. 7, as Hawaii's seventh governor, succeeding Republican Gov. Linda Lingle.

Until the state senate confirms a new director for the Hawaii Department of Health, Fukino is being replaced by interim Acting Director Keith R. Ridley, the former program chief of Health Care Assurance for the Hawaii Department of Health.

"Gov. Neil Abercrombie has asked Keith Ridley to serve as the state's acting director of health to perform the duties of the director of the department until the vacancy in office is filled by an interim appointment, the state senate confirms someone to serve as the director for the remainder of the governor's term, or Feb. 4, 2011, whichever comes first," Janice Okubo, a spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Health, told WND in an e-mail.



Fukino unwillingly came to center stage in the Obama birth certificate controversy after issuing a statement on Oct. 31, 2008, in which she stated: "Therefore, I as Director for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."

In a separate statement, Fukino said, "I and Dr. Alvin Onaka have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."

But those with questions have pointed out that neither statement revealed what the "record" or "certificate" says or clarified many of the questions raised over the issue. Do the "original vital records" and "original birth certificate" reflect a Hawaii birth, or an overseas birth?

Many people, including some in the national news media, remain ignorant of the fact that a "Certification of Live Birth" from the state of Hawaii, such as the computer image Obama's campaign posted on the Web in 2008, can be given to children who were actually born in foreign countries.

WND has reported that Abercrombie, a close friend and associate of President Obama in Hawaii, has been closely tied to the Marxist-oriented Democratic Socialists of America.

WND also has documented that Abercrombie was at the center of a controversy over a letter President Obama supposedly sent to Kapi'olani Medical Center on Jan. 24, 2009, claiming Kapi'olani was the hospital where President Obama was born; the letter originally published by Kapi'olani turned out to be a digital image displayed on the hospital's website, not the image of an actual paper letter.

The letter surfaced when then-Congressman Abercrombie, a Democrat, read the letter aloud at Kapi'olani's centennial dinner that took place on the evening of Jan. 24, 2009.

Within an hour of WND's report, the image, which also featured no presidential or White House seal, vanished from view on the hospital's page celebrating its 100th anniversary.

WND can now reveal the hospital did not completely remove the image of the letter. It actually covered it up electronically using a special hiding code called "commenting out" that prevents readers from seeing it when anything is put between "."

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WND took a screen shot of the source code, which is now showing up in green as it's being hidden from viewing on the regular, visible page.

That was purposeful coding in of well-known HTML code that basically removes code from showing up in the display of a Web page, but maintains it in the actual source code of the page," an Internet consultant told WND. "It's just a quick way to stop things from showing up in the browser. It's typically done so that coders can hide or bring something back quickly."

Kapi'olani spokeswoman Kristy Watanabe today refused to even confirm the existence of an actual letter from the White House, only parroting her previous statement to WND: "Federal law does not permit us to provide any more details concerning information [about Obama's birth] without authorization from Mr. Obama."

WND asked again since they have been celebrating Obama's own supposed written admission that he was born at the facility, isn't that authorization?

"No comment," Watanabe said.

WND can also reveal the hospital not only proclaimed itself as Obama's birth location online, it used the Oval Office disclosure as a major fund-raising tool, giving it massive play on page six in its spring edition of its own Inspire Magazine.





WND Exclusive BORN IN THE USA?
Obama's 'birth hospital' in astonishing cover-up
Hospital once proudly celebrated president, now in active mode to hide 'proof'
Posted: July 10, 2009
11:49 pm Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii

The Honolulu hospital which for nearly six months proudly declared President Obama was born at its facility and used that claim as a major fund-raising tool is now engaged in an active cover-up, hiding a White House letter announcing his alleged birth there and refusing to confirm such a letter even exists.

The Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children is electronically cloaking what it had touted as a Jan. 24 letter from the president, in which the commander in chief, just four days after his inauguration, supposedly wrote, "As a beneficiary of the excellence of Kapi'olani Medical Center – the place of my birth – I am pleased to add my voice to your chorus of supporters."

WND was first to question the authenticity of the letter by revealing the image displayed on the hospital's website was not the image of an actual paper letter, but merely a computer-created likeness of a letter using HTML code, the building blocks of websites.


Barack Obama states in this purported letter from him on what appears to be White House stationery that he was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu. The letter was posted by the medical center for nearly six months on its website before electronically hidden once WND publicized it.

Within an hour of WND's report, the image, which also featured no presidential or White House seal, vanished from view on the hospital's page celebrating its 100th anniversary.

WND can now reveal the hospital did not completely remove the image of the letter. It actually covered it up electronically using a special hiding code called "commenting out" that prevents readers from seeing it when anything is put between "."

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WND took a screen shot of the source code, which is now showing up in green as it's being hidden from viewing on the regular, visible page.


This source code screen shot taken July 10, 2009, demonstrates that a "comment out" has been inserted in the HTML code to prevent the display of what Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu had been proudly proclaiming to be a White House letter from President Obama announcing he was born at the facility. The cloaking change took place approximately an hour after WND revealed the alleged White House letter was merely a computer-generated likeness of a letter.

"That was purposeful coding in of well-known HTML code that basically removes code from showing up in the display of a Web page, but maintains it in the actual source code of the page," an Internet consultant told WND. "It's just a quick way to stop things from showing up in the browser. It's typically done so that coders can hide or bring something back quickly."

Here is WND's original screenshot of the letter's source code before it was "commented out" to conceal the letter:


This July 9, 2009, screenshot of the source code, revealed what was touted as a White House letter from President Obama is not an image of any actual letter, but merely a computer-generated likeness of a letter.Within approximately an hour of WND's exposing that fact, the hospital "commented out" its HTML code to conceal the letter from view.

Kapi'olani spokeswoman Kristy Watanabe today refused to even confirm the existence of an actual letter from the White House, only parroting her previous statement to WND: "Federal law does not permit us to provide any more details concerning information [about Obama's birth] without authorization from Mr. Obama."

WND asked again since they have been celebrating Obama's own supposed written admission that he was born at the facility, isn't that authorization?

"No comment," Watanabe said.

WND can also reveal the hospital not only proclaimed itself as Obama's birth location online, it used the Oval Office disclosure as a major fund-raising tool, giving it massive play on page six in its spring edition of its own Inspire Magazine.

A screen shot of the alleged presidential letter and accompanying article is displayed here:


Kapi'olani used a letter, allegedly written by President Obama in which he declares his birthplace to be at the facility, to solicit donations in its spring 2009 edition of its own Inspire Magazine. The hospital is now refusing to confirm if such a letter even exists.

When one compares the version of the letter in the magazine to the one Kapi'olani had online, there are some obvious differences which can be spotted immediately, including a different font for the text, and the fact that Obama's purported signature swoops down over his typewritten name, though it's completely separate from it in the online version.


Chuck Sted, CEO of Hawaii Pacific Health

"As the hospital celebrates 100 years of pediatric care in Hawaii, we've begun a capital campaign to position the hospital for the next century of care," wrote Chuck Sted, president and CEO of Hawaii Pacific Health which runs Kapi'olani, in his published plea for donations in the edition featuring the Obama letter.

"Our donors recognize the need is urgent; Hawaii's children and families cannot wait. Your support matters. As today's economic realities force all of us to re-think our priorities, we hope you agree that top-quality health care is not a 'nice to have.' It is a priority; it is vital."

The hospital acknowledged it did publish the "Obama birth letter" image in the magazine, but spokeswoman Watanabe refused to answer any questions about it.

"Right now we have no comment. Thank you very much," she said, abruptly ending the conversation by hanging up the phone.

WND has continuously contacted the White House this week to authenticate the existence, authorship and contents of the letter and confirm the true birth hospital of the president.

Staff members there have acknowledged seeing the image of the letter originally published online, but have still not provided any comment.

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Suspicions about the letter's authenticity were raised when WND discovered the image posted online was created in HTML computer code, and was not a true image of a document. Various screen shots of the hospitals website before the letter's removal demonstrate that.

Another issue is U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie's reading of the letter to the audience of more than 700 at the hospital's Centennial Dinner, who cheered when the portion was read mentioning Obama's "birth" at Kapi'olani.

At times, Abercrombie did not read the letter verbatim, as he added some words and deleted others. Ironically, though Kapi'olani scrubbed the alleged Obama birth letter from its site, as of the posting of this article, it retained the video of Abercrombie reading the text, found at the 2:11 mark of the three-minute video.