Two DeKalb County police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after an investigation revealed they ran a background check on President Barack Obama.
A representative for the DeKalb County CEO’s office identified the officers as Ryan White and C.M. Route.
Officials said Obama’s name was typed into a computer inside a DeKalb County police car on July 20 and ran through the National Crime Information Center.
The secret service was immediately notified and contacted the DeKalb County Police Department.
It is unclear why the officers ran a check on the president.
Wonder if they’re nutball Republican birthers – or just a couple of boneheads who forgot what they were told about using the NCIC.
Yeah, but who watches the watchers that watch the watchers?
#19 deowll
“Georgia? They should be Democrats…”
Nope, Georgia was a ” Dixiecrat” state until LBJ (A Southern Democrat from Texas.) shoved through all the Civil Rights Legislation in the early Sixties. Now they are Republican. And are still the brain-dead bunch of racist, good ol’ boy fucktards they were when they were still Dixiecrats.
If it weren’t for the above, and them being from Dekalb County, I would have gone with the “Bored cops doing silly shit” option. Nope, they’re probably “Birthers” and former Klan members to boot.
So what, big deal. It not like they were going to get anything. The police should be able to run NCIC on anyone at anytime for any reason. The government allready has all of that information, the police are part of that government. Feel free to run one on me.
Non story, except their punishment.
On birthers,
this week a poll shows that only 42% of Republicans believe the BHO was born in the USA. This is not a fringe movement anymore.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/poll-28-of-republican-base-are-birthers.php
I have wondered why he doesn’t make a simple phone call and a) end the story and b) make the birthers look like idiots. (Dont tell me that he has, or that fact check is non-partison).
I heard the first plausible reason for him not doing it today (other than being born in Kenya). It is possible that his birth certificate lists his race as white, or his religion as muslim, or his last name as Dunham. Any of these may be uncomfortable for him.
Everytime they get behind a car they use the same NCIC datalink to look both the car and it’s driver. What’s so special about President Hussein, what he can’t be looked up. Exactly what crime did they commit, NONE. The information on the NCIC is public information. Just like in every state you have GUN CONTROL WACKOs drinking cool-aid demanding the release of the names of CC Permit holders.
Talk about double standards, typical of Demoncrats.
Whatever…………..
Traaxx
The labelling of people with these easy monikers is starting become very tired.
It can’t just be me, but now whenever I hear phases that include words like -nutball, -denier, -whack-job, -extremist, -nazi, -fascist, bleeding-heart-, flip-flopping-, -apologist, liberal-, right-wing- left-wing- etc etc my mind just switches off.
Maybe the people in corporate media have now won. Reasoned thought and possibility of investigation into any issue has been effectively shut down.
#24, Les,
The Obama campaign permitted his birth certificate to be put on line. The Hawaii Secretary of State has acknowledged the birth. Hawaii newspaper birth announcements list him. Federal law gives him American citizenship simply because his mother is American.
This is just a distraction by those so upset that a Democrat lives in the White House and that Democrat is black they will do and say almost anything to sooth their own paranoia. It would not matter what Obama did, there will still be those who will deny him his rightful office. Asking Obama to prove something these same people don’t ask of anyone else is simply wrong.
It is fervently regarded as just simple racism by normal people.
#25, Traaxx the idiot,
What’s so special about President Hussein, what he can’t be looked up.
The President, Vise-President, and several other important persons with Secret Service protection have protections regular people do not. That includes anyone prying into their lives through government computers.
Exactly what crime did they commit, NONE. The information on the NCIC is public information.
Actually accessing the NCIC requires that they only do so for legitimate reasons. If they don’t have a legitimate reason then they do not have permission. That means they illegally accessed the government computer.
The information on the computer is NOT public information. It is the property of the Department of Justice. The same as your credit score is owned by the company selling it.
Les, the birth certificate wouldn’t list race or religion, just the race of his parents. Plus, being born in Kenya doesn’t really disqualify him, and neither would being a citizen of Indonesia.
Fusion, got a link?
The released document is a ‘certification of live birth’, not the birth certificate.
A newspaper announcement at the time would settle things. Where is that?
#29,
yes being born in Kenya would disqualify him.
The outrage among birthers has been fueled partly by a quirk in the history of citizenship law. If Obama had been born in Kenya, he would not have been a citizen at birth by virtue of his American mother. His mother, then 18, would have fallen short of the requirement that a citizen parent has been a U.S. resident for five years after her 14th birthday. (The requirement was shortened to two years for children born after 1986.) Obama’s mother would have been able to bring him into the United States as an immigrant, five years after which he would have been eligible for citizenship.
#29, Lyin’ Mike,
Since this has been in the news so many times with the actual birth certificate and birth announcements televised I’m surprised you still want to be the idiot.
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
for a good review including links.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg
For a copy of the actual certificate.
#31, sorry
the oft reported “birth certificate” you refer two is shown here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-12/barack-obama-birth-certificate_43705180.jpg
This is a “certification of live birth”. No one is disputing that he was born alive.
Here is what we are looking for
http://www.wnd.com/images/090728birthcert.gif
This is a “certificate of live birth”, big difference. It shows the hospital name, and doctors name.
This certificate belongs to a girl who was born August 5th 1961, allegedly the day after BHO in the same hospital. Somehow, this certificate issued the day after BHOs has a lower number….
No I wasn’t aware of the newspaper announcements. Still, the birth certificate is not the full state records.
To the contrary, “the state records” are the certificate. They are used to generate the more limited birth certifications on request. As the Jeffers post shows, these state records are far more detailed. They include, for example, the name of the hospital, institution, or street address where the birth occurred; the full name, age, birthplace, race, and occupation of each parent; the mother’s residential address (and whether that address is within the city or town of birth); the signature of at least one parent (or “informant”) attesting to the accuracy of the information provided; the identity and signature of an attending physician (or other “attendant”) who certifies the occurrence of a live birth at the time and place specified; and the identity and signature of the local registrar who filed the birth record.
http://tinyurl.com/ml7s52
#32, Les and Lyin’ Mike,
I won’t matter what evidence you are shown, you will never agree that it is sufficient.
My personal birth certificate also says “Certificate of Live Birth”. That is what was issued to me when I requested one. State records have been attested to that what has been reproduced is true.
That two newspapers had birth announcements right after the birth is also clear evidence unless you believe someone posted those in 1961 with the intention of committing a fraud in 2008.
Keep it up. Please. Middle America sees the idiocy the Republicans are promoting. There will be an election in 15 months, will your losing candidate be a birther?
I am easily convenced. My post (#32) shows exactly what I need to be shown. What is to be lost by showing it to us?
Would you spend 100s of thousands of dollars to hide something that a simple phone call would resolve?
It makes no sense, something is wrong here.
I would like to see the college records, but the full birth certificate would satisfy me, and make the whole thing go away.