World Net Daily is reporting that computer scanning expert Doug Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey will accompany attorney Orly Taitz when she presents to the Hawaii Department of Health a subpoena to examine Barack Obama’s original 1961 typewritten birth certificate.

Vogt and Irey both told WND they are making travel plans to join Taitz
in Honolulu when she goes to the state agency at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug.
8, to present the subpoena in person. 

"We will plan to hold a press conference late in the day of Aug. 8," Vogt said, "and if the document we see varies from the birth certificate documents the White House released, we plan to file criminal charges in Hawaii immediately."

Vogt shared with WND a copy of a letter he has written to Hawaii Attorney General David Louie, putting Louie on notice regarding the reasons he believes the birth certificate released by the White House is fraudulent.

Irey says it won’t take long to evaluate the original birth record, if it exists.

"Over the years of my career, I’ve seen everything that can be put on paper," he said. "Now that I’m thoroughly familiar with what the White House released, I will be able to tell you within a few minutes, if what the Hawaii DOH has matches what the White House has released, or not.

"I will expect to see the same differences in typeface that are on the White House version, otherwise I will know immediately that what the Hawaii DOH is showing us is a forgery."

Vogt and Irey plan to bring a laptop computer and a portable scanner to the Hawaii DOH for the inspection.

"We will scan the document to compare it to the White House electronic version and the Xerox copies they handed out in the press room," he said. "We will immediately make our scan available to the public over the Internet, so the American public can see for themselves."

Irey told WND he expects the Hawaii DOH at the last minute will do everything possible to prevent Taitz from getting access to the 1961 original Obama birth certificate, if it exists.

"Quite frankly, I doubt the Hawaii DOH has anything to show us," Irey said skeptically, "and if we do see a document, my guess is that it will have been forged for the purpose of showing us something."

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U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), John McCain (R-AZ), David Vitter (R-LA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Daniel Coats (R-IN), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Representatives James Lankford (R-OK) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) today introduced the State Transportation Flexibility Act that would allow state transportation departments to opt out of the Federal-Aid Highway and Mass Transit programs.  Instead, these states would be able to manage and spend the gas tax revenue collected within their state on transportation projects without federal mandates or restrictions.  In addition to the 14 Senators and 24 Representatives co-sponsoring this bill, it has received support from numerous national organizations and state officials including endorsements from Governor Mary Fallin (R-OK) and Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation, Gary Ridley.

“Washington’s addiction to spending has bankrupted the Highway Trust Fund.  For years, lower-priority projects like earmarks have crowded out important priorities in our states, such as repairing crumbling roads and bridges.  Instead of burdening states and micromanaging local transportation decisions from Washington, states like Oklahoma should be free to choose how their transportation dollars are spent.  I have no doubt that Oklahoma’s Transportation Director Gary Ridley will do a much better job deciding how Oklahoma’s transportation dollars are spent than bureaucrats and politicians in Washington,” said Dr. Coburn.

“This has been one of my top priorities since coming to Congress, and I’m happy to join Senator Coburn in this effort. This bill is a giant step for states by increasing transportation flexibility while improving efficiency,” said Representative Lankford. “By allowing states to opt-out of the federal bureaucracy, they will be able to take more control of their own resources. It will free Oklahoma to keep our own federal gas taxes and to fund new projects at our own discretion.”

“As a Federalist, I have long advocated that states should retain the right to keep the revenue from gas taxes paid by drivers in their own state, said Senator McCain.  “This bill would allow for this to happen and prevent Arizonans from returning their hard earned money to Washington.  Arizonans have always received 95 cents or less for every dollar they pay federal gas taxes.  This continues to be unacceptable, and for that reason I am a proud supported of the State Highway Flexibility Act.”

“Any time you can eliminate a layer of federal bureaucracy from the states’ ability to govern is a good thing,” said Senator Vitter. “It’s very apparent how badly Congress can mismanage tax dollars, especially the Highway Trust fund which has needed to be bailed out three times since 2008. The states know their transportation needs better than Congress, so let’s put them in the driver’s seat to manage their own gas tax.”    

“The federal government’s one-size-fits all transportation policies and mandates are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and causing inexcusable delays in the construction of highways, bridges and roads in Utah and across the nation,” Senator Hatch said. “It is time to unshackle the states to let them manage their own gas tax dollars. They can do a much better job than the federal government, which is fraught with waste and mismanagement.”

“The federal transportation system has become emblematic of Washington’s inefficiencies and reckless spending habits. I am happy to support this bill that helps to cut government waste and streamline an overly burdensome federal transportation funding process. It will provide Texas more flexibility to make transportation decisions locally and encourage innovative solutions to addressing our transportation infrastructure needs” said Senator Cornyn.

“For too long Georgia has been burdened with the inefficiencies imposed on our state by numerous provisions of federal law and onerous regulations.   This legislation ensures that federal highway and transit funds in our state will be used more efficiently” said Senator Isakson. “The federal government has not spent Highway Trust Fund dollars wisely; therefore, it makes complete sense to allow Georgia and all states to decide how to allocate these funds—without red tape—to better meet our state’s unique transportation needs.”

“For too long, Indiana has been a donor state and sent more gas tax dollars to Washington than it has received back,” Senator Coats said. “This isn’t fair to Hoosier taxpayers, which is why I support the State Highway Flexibility Act. Hoosiers know our state’s transportation needs better than bureaucrats in Washington, and Indiana should be able to control its own resources.”

“By allowing Utah the ability to opt out of the Federal-aid Highway program and keep all excise tax revenue collected with our state, the decision making authority is being returned to Utah. It gives the state greater ability to choose how and where the money is spent and choose which projects will benefit our state the most” said Senator Lee.  “Additionally, since this bill removes all Federal restrictions on the use of these funds, other than being required to be used for transportation related projects, Utah will no longer be at the mercy of every federal agency, including the EPA, to receive these funds. This will expedite every project and will make the use of these funds significantly more cost effective.”

“By allowing states to assume discretionary transportation authority, local transportation decisions would be made at the local level, not by the federal government,” said Representative Flake. “It makes no sense for states, like Arizona, to continue to send gas tax revenue to Washington, only to have a portion of that money return, along with restrictions on how we can spend it.”

“An efficient transportation system is necessary to help get Ohio’s economy back on track.  Too often, Ohio has its hands tied by burdensome mandates and strings attached to federal funds for roads and bridges, and Ohio gas taxes are used for projects in other states.  With tightening budgets, now more than ever we need to provide states with the ability to quickly and innovatively implement their transportation priorities to help create jobs,” said Senator Portman.

CBS is reporting that at the Congressional hearing on ATF‘s controversial gunwalking operation, a key ATF manager told Congress he discussed the case with a White House National Security staffer as early as September 2010.

The "Fast and Furious" program put thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels which killed hundreds of people including ATF agents, other Federal employees and American citizens.  The ideology behind the program was apparently to expose gun dealers, blame America and thereby build public pressure to restrict Second Amendment Rights.  This may be the most criminal behavior by President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration to reach the media to date. (Exempting, of course, the disregard and obvious betrayal of the Constitution in Obamacare and the War in Libya.)

The communications were between ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office, Bill Newell, and White House National Security Director for North America Kevin O’Reilly. Newell said the two are longtime friends. The content of what Newell shared with O’Reilly is unclear and wasn’t fully explored at the hearing.

It’s the first time anyone has publicly stated that a White House official had any familiarity with ATF‘s operation Fast and Furious, which allowed thousands of weapons to fall into the hands of suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels in a twisted attempt to gain intelligence … or so officials now claim.

Congressional investigators obtained an email from Newell to O’Reilly in September of last year in which Newell began with the words: "you didn’t get this from me."

"What does that mean," one member of Congress asked Newell, " ‘you didn’t get this from me?’ "

"Obviously he was a friend of mine," Newell replied, "and I shouldn’t have been sending that to him."

Newell told Congress that O’Reilly had asked him for information.

"Why do you think he asked for that information," Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked Newell.

"He was asking about the impact of Project Gunrunner to brief people in preparation for a [Presidential] trip to Mexico… what we were doing to combat firearms trafficking and other issues."

To read more from CBS, click here.

A spray-painted sign threatening death for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents was found Friday next to a school in a northern Mexico state capital, officials said according to multiple press reports.

Addressed with profanity to "Gringos (D.E.A.)," the unsigned graffiti warned: "We know where you are and we know who you are and where you go. We are going to chop off your (expletive) heads."

Anonymous messages conveying threats and other warnings are common in areas hit hard by Mexico’s drug war, but it is rarer for them to threaten U.S. law enforcement. Authorities do not know who left the message, which was removed.

The DEA referred questions to the U.S. State Department. Officials there did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The message was left in the Chihuahua state capital, also called Chihuahua, which is about 220 miles (360 kilometers) from the U.S. border.

In February, suspected Zeta cartel members killed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata and wounded colleague Victor Avila on a highway in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.

Also on Friday, five copies of a message addressed to Chihuahua Gov. Cesar Duarte were found painted on blankets known as "mantas" in Ciudad Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso, Texas. Those messages, apparently posted by rivals of the Sinaloa drug cartel, accused officials of protecting the Sinaloa organisation.

It was not clear if the messages in Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez were related.

"This sort of message will not stop us from continuing the fight to bring peace back to this state," Chihuahua Interior Secretary Graciela Ortiz said.

The threatening message against Duarte comes amid threats to the governor of Nuevo Leon, another northern state bordering Texas. Two of Gov. Rodrigo Medina’s bodyguards were mutilated, killed and dismembered in June.

This story was first reported by www.mercurynews.com and picked up by the Associated Press with further publication on www.CBS.com and others.

Nearly 40,000 people have been murdered on or near the U.S border with Mexico far surpassing the 1,000 killed in Libya prior to NATO engagement (bombing, funding, and agents on the ground) which the United Nations called a humanitarian cause.  Now, President Barack (Insane) Obama is spending $10 million per day in Libya dropping bombs while declaring that his administration is not required to follow American law because the military action in Libya has not risen to the level of "full-blown hostilities."  Thus begs the question of how hostile the Mexican Border War must become before President Obama considers it hostile?  Maybe President Obama’s next pampered vacation with the family could be on the American land now controlled by Mexican Drug Lords? 

AFP is reporting Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

Hague’s comments came a day after Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said they had fired 14 missiles in an exercise, one of them a medium-range weapon capable of striking Israel or US targets in the Gulf.

In a statement to lawmakers, Hague said: "Iran has also been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in contravention of UN resolution 1929."

He said Iran had also announced plans to triple its capacity to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, adding: "These are enrichment levels far greater than is needed for peaceful nuclear energy.

"We will maintain and continue to increase pressure on Iran to negotiate an agreement on their nuclear program," including sanctions, he said.

There was no immediate reaction from Tehran, which denies Western claims that it is pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of its civil atomic program.

On Tuesday Iranian state media said the Revolutionary Guards fired nine Zelzal missiles, two Shahab-1s, two Shahab-2s and a single medium-range Ghadr on the second day of their Great Prophet-6 exercise.

On the first day of the exercise on Monday, the Guards unveiled an "underground missile silo" which they said was designed for launching their medium-range missiles, state television reported.

The Guards’ aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh insisted Iran’s missile program posed no threat to European nations but was intended to provide defense against "US targets in the region and the Zionist regime."

Iran has said that its latest exercise is not aimed at any country but carries "a message of peace and friendship."

On Tuesday US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Iran was "bragging" about its assets, but did not specify whether Washington thought the tested missiles were nuclear-capable.

Iran’s missile program, which is under the control of the powerful Guards along with its space projects, has been a mounting source of concern in the West.

Western governments fear Tehran is seeking to develop a ballistic capability to enable it to launch atomic warheads under cover of its civil nuclear program.

Hague meanwhile reiterated accusations that Iran was backing the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests in neighboring Syria.

Earlier this month the British envoy in Tehran was summoned to the foreign ministry over the claims.

"Iran continues to connive in the suppression of legitimate protest in Syria and to suppress protests at home," Hague said.