Daily Telegraph
March 17, 2010

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Repeated requests to see President Barack Obama’s birth certificate may fall on deaf ears after the House Judiciary Committee heard a bill permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up.

So-called “birthers” claim Mr Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States, and therefore doesn’t meet a constitutional requirement for being president.

“Sometimes we may be dealing with a cohort of people who believe lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy,” said Lorrin Kim, from the Hawaii Department of Health.

Under Hawaii state law, the release of a birth certificate is prohibited for people who do not have a tangible interest.

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