"In reversal, Obama says he lived with uncle" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, December 05, 2013
President Obama acknowledged Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than two years ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting.
Looks like a lie to me.
Their relationship came into question Tuesday at the deportation hearing of the president’s uncle, Onyango Obama, in Boston immigration court. His uncle had lived in the United States illegally since the 1970s and revealed for the first time in testimony that his famous nephew had stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time, Onyango Obama was here illegally and fighting deportation.
Does that mean Obama was breaking the law?
On Thursday, a White House official said the press office had not fully researched the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the Globe in 2011 that it had no record of the two meeting. This time, press office staff members asked the president directly, which they said they had not done in 2011.
That is the lame-ass excuse they put out there? That's the best they could come up with?
What else is his staff not asking him about?
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In November 2011, a White House spokesman told the Globe he had no record of the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that scholars believed the two had never met.
And you wonder why I no longer believe a word?
The White House never moved to correct the record, until the president’s fiercely private uncle took the witness stand in Boston immigration court two days ago....
And likely never would have moved to correct the record had this hearing not been held.
On Tuesday, immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro granted Onyango Obama legal residency based on what he said was his good moral character and a section of federal law that allows him to get a green card because he arrived before 1972....
Related:
Veteran jurist to hear Obama case
Judge says Obama’s uncle can stay in US
Breaking the law does pay, even if you drive drunk! I guess it is all jwho you know.
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FLASHBACK:
"Obama’s uncle gets expulsion rehearing; Immigration lawyers surprised" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, December 04, 2012
President Obama’s uncle has won a new deportation hearing in Boston immigration court, more than a year after a drunken- driving arrest in Framingham revealed that he had violated a longstanding order to return to Kenya.
Last week, the Board of Immigration Appeals granted Onyango Obama’s request to reopen his immigration case based in part on his contention that his prior lawyer was ineffective, according to a government official with direct knowledge of the case. Obama’s new lawyers have also argued that the 68-year-old Obama has lived in the United States for nearly half a century and deserves a chance to make his case....
Blow again then.
The board’s decision raised eyebrows among immigration lawyers who say it is difficult to persuade the immigration courts to reconsider a case that involves an arrest and a flagrant violation of a deportation order, last issued in 1992....
I barely batted an eye when I read it because of the connections.
He's paying them before they deport, right?
