CNN: State of Hawaii Destroyed President Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate in 2001!

***UPDATE (July 28, 2009) - Check out the latest blog entry (WND: Hawaii Did Not Destroy President Obama's Original Long-Form Birth Certificate (Conflicts With CNN & Lou Dobbs Report)!) that potentially contradicts the below CNN story.
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Obama's citizenship has become a huge news story with MSNBC, Fox, CNN and big time radio hosts covering it on a daily basis over the last week. Many people (including myself) are demanding that President Obama produce his Hawaiian long-form birth certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, I assume that this below CNN/Media Bistro story will end the controversy (for now) over President Barack Obama's Hawaiian long-form birth certificate.

Without a long-form birth certificate, the short-form birth certificate produced by Obama "proves" his citizenship for purposes of being President. Unless someone can produce a contradictory document that holds the same weight as Obama's Hawaiian short-form birth certificate, I agree with CNN that Obama's alleged non-citizenship is a dead story.

However, if someone finds a contradictory document, then I will definitely be back blogging about it.

So what happened to President Obama's original long-form birth certificate?

CNN's president Jon Klein asked his political researchers to find out why Obama could not produce the original long-form birth certificate. The State of Hawaii Health Department informed CNN's researchers that the long-form birth certificate no longer existed, because Hawaii went to a paperless system in 2001. Therefore, President Obama's long-form birth certificate was discarded and likely destroyed in the State's trashing process.

---- Original Message -----
From: Klein, Jon (CNN)
Sent: Thu Jul 23 19:00:44 2009
Subject: Important re birth certificate

I asked the political researchers to dig into the question "why couldn't Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth certificate?"

This is what they forwarded. It seems to definitively answer the question. Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead - because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.

Thx

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*In 2001 - the state of Hawaii Health Department went paperless.*Paper documents were discarded*The official record of Obama's birth is now an official ELECTRONIC record Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Health Department told the Honolulu Star Bulletin, "At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.

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Transcript from Lou Dobbs Tonight - 07.23.09

DOBBS: ....And a number of Americans are asking, why not? The left-wing media has attacked me because I simply asked the question. Meanwhile, the state of Hawaii says it can't release a paper copy of the president's original birth certificate because they say the state government discarded the original document when the health department records went electronic some eight years ago.

Source: CNN via Media Bistro.