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Joe Arpaio’s “Birther” Investigation Wages On as Outrage Over Sheriff’s Bungling of Hundreds of Sex Crime Investigation Grows

As the outrage over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's mishandling of several hundred sex crimes continues to spread, the sheriff's crusade to prove that President Barack Obama is a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate wages on.Arpaio, as we've reported, agreed to investigate the president's citizenship at the request of...
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As the outrage over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mishandling of several hundred sex crimes continues to spread, the sheriff’s crusade to prove that President Barack Obama is a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate wages on.

Arpaio, as we’ve reported, agreed to investigate the president’s citizenship at the request of a local Tea Party group, and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.

The sheriff explained the “investigation” to us in October. Get the details here (according to Arpaio, the details involve Hawaiian twins and microfiche. No joke).

This week, as he fended off criticism of the botched investigations, Arpaio found time for a quick interview with Corsi on the status of the bogus investigation.

“This is a serious law enforcement investigation, and our findings are
going to be controversial but based in facts,” Arpaio says in an article that appeared on Corsi’s website, World Net Daily.

According to the sheriff, a preliminary report on the investigation will
be ready in February. A more comprehensive report will follow.

When
we spoke with Arpaio about the “investigation,” he told us his “Cold Case
Posse” has uncovered some shocking new information about whether Obama
is legally qualified to be president. He refused to go into too many
details, but the answer to the president’s citizenship question could be
answered by Hawaiian twins and microfiche, the sheriff says.

“No one has talked about microfiche. The controversy has been over the
birth certificate — maybe the numbers are not in sequence, or it’s been
forged; I can go on and on,” Arpaio told New Times in October. “To help the president of the United
States, let’s go to the microfiche.”

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According to the sheriff,
two twins — the Nordyke twins — were born on August 5, 1961 at the
same hospital as the president. August 5, 1961, is one day after
President Obama was (allegedly — if you ask a “birther”) born in
Hawaii. The twins’ birth certificates can be found on microfiche
documents that the sheriff says are on file with the Hawaii Department
of Health, or some Hawaiian government agency.


If Obama was born in the same hospital the day before the twins,
according to the sheriff, the posse should be able to locate
the president’s birth certificate on similar microfiche files.

“All you have to do if you’re the president is go to the Department of
Health, or whatever, and release the microfiche,” Arpaio says. “If his birth certificate is on that microfiche —
just like the two twins — then he’s cleared.”

Meanwhile, as the
sheriff plays around with the “birthers,” the more than 400 botched sex
crime investigations in El Mirage from 2005-2007 has resulted in
multiple calls for Arpaio’s resignation.

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The sheriff yesterday
pointed to other local law enforcement agencies with (ahem) much bigger
problems than a few hundred bungled investigation.

“I’m gonna say it again: this is not unique to the sheriff’s office
because you can talk about four other local agencies — who I will not
identify
, but I’m sure you know who they are — who’ve had serious other
problems just like this in the last 18 months,” Arpaio said at a press conference yesterday.

As
we pointed out in our post yesterday, two of the agencies the sheriff’s
referring to are likely the Justice Department and its
flubbed “Fast and Furious” gun-running sting, and the Phoenix Police
Department’s recent issue with properly tallying kidnapping statistics.

The
heads of each of those agencies — former Phoenix police Chief Jack
Harris and former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke — had the
decency to step down after the shit hit the fan.

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Not Arpaio, though — he says he has no intentions of resigning.
After all, he’s smack dab in the middle of a (gulp) important investigation
into a continuously debunked conspiracy theory.

“The American
people deserve to know the truth about Obama,” Arpaio continues to WND.
“We are a major law enforcement agency – one of the largest in the
nation – and we have at our disposal investigative tools not generally
available, even to the top private investigator in the country.”

Tell that to the sex crime victims in El Mirage.

See Corsi’s entire article here.

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