Around two years ago, (July 24th 2009) it was reported that CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein sent an email to a handful of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” staffers last night regarding the coverage of the so-called birthers and the validity of Pres. Obama’s birth in the U.S. Klein was reported to have written-

“It seems this story is dead- because anyone who still is not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef.” Klein asked CNN researchers to dig into the question of why Obama couldn’t produce the original birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless. That reportedly includes Pres. Obama’s original birth certificate.

Lou Dobbs was later fired from CNN for persisting in covering the story. The original report on the Klein email is here.

Meanwhile, on the Hawaii Dept of Health website it says the following-

Welcome to the Department of Health’s Online Vital Records Ordering System. Vital records (birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates) for events that occurred in Hawaii are received and preserved by the Office of Health Status Monitoring, a unit of the Department of Health. You may order certified copies only of birth and marriage certificates and only of records dating from July 1909 to the present on this web site. You can also order certified copies of birth and marriage certificates, and must order certified copies of death and divorce certificates and certified copies of records dating before July 1909, through postal mail or in-person.

Later, Janice Okubo, public information officer for the Hawaii DOH, told WND-

“I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have been destroyed by the department. When the department went electronic in 2001, vital records, whether in paper form or any other form, [were] maintained. We don’t destroy records.” Okubo affirmed that beginning in 2001, all vital records, including birth records, moved to electronic formats. “Any records that we had in paper or any other form before 2001 are still in file within the department,” she insisted. “We have not destroyed any vital statistics records that we have.”

CNN is actively engaged in trying to smokescreen Obama’s Constitutional eligibility, proving once again that the mainstream news media is largely just a corrupt and partisan tool of the Democrat political party.