The Law Firm Behind the Steele Dossier Also "Found" Obama's Birth Certificate

The Attorneys at Perkins Coie Were Very Creative

In 2007, the Hillary Clinton campaign understood that Barack Obama’s dubious roots were a legitimate campaign issue. “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light,” Clinton strategist Mark Penn wrote in a March 2007 memo to Hillary.

“It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Of course, the Hillary campaign insisted it never attempted to follow Penn’s lead, but Penn never suggested it should. “We are never going to say anything about his background,” he added. “We have to show the value of ours when it comes to making decisions, understanding the needs of most Americans—the invisible Americans.”

Attorney Philip Berg, took his doubts about Obama a step further. On August 21, 2008, a week prior to the Democratic National Convention, Berg filed a federal suit in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania challenging Obama’s constitutional eligibility to be president. He simply wanted to see Obama’s passport applications and birth certificate.

A former deputy attorney general for the State of Pennsylvania and a credible pro-choice gubernatorial candidate in a Democratic primary against sitting governor Robert Casey, Berg expected to be taken seriously. He wasn’t. The media expressed zero interest in his suit.

Obama and the Democratic National Committee took a good deal of interest. Defending Obama’s interest was none other than Bob Bauer, a top gun from the Deep State’s go-to law firm, Perkins Coie.

On November 12, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the suit. “I was deprived of my due process rights to be heard,” Berg would write. “Judge Surrick made some outlandish comments claiming Obama had been properly vetted, and that was completely untrue.”

If Berg were a racist, his lifetime membership in the NAACP made for good cover, and he was not the only one to file suit asking to see Obama’s birth certificate and passport. Obama’s lawyers fought the challengers at every turn and at great expense.

The day after Berg’s suit was dismissed in November 2009, the New York Times reported that White House counsel Gregory Craig was stepping down from his job and that Bauer would be taking over.

In 2011, when Donald Trump started making serious noise about the birth certificate, Obama turned to the one man who knew his secrets. “Finally I decided I’d had enough,” Obama writes in his latest memoir A Promised Land.

“I called in White House counsel Bob Bauer and told him to go ahead and obtain the long-form birth certificate from its home in a bound volume, somewhere deep in the bowels of the Hawaii Vital Records office.”

Bauer dispatched Obama’s personal attorney Judith Corley, also of Perkins Coie, to secure two copies of the long form birth certificate. If it was all so easy, one has to wonder why Bauer did not “obtain” a copy when first Berg and then others brought suit. The likeliest reason is that it wasn’t so easy. Obama had something to hide.

That “something” was likely the reason friendly operatives breached the national passport archives in spring 2008. The CNN lead suggests a major story in the making, “The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday.” That CEO was John Brennan, then an obscure advisor to Obama but later, as CIA director, a major force behind the ongoing coup to first defeat and then unseat President Donald Trump.

Not surprisingly, Perkins Coie had a hand in that operation as well. In 2016 the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC turned to Perkins Coie to dirty-up then candidate Trump. The firm promptly retained Fusion GPS to create the infamous Steele dossier, the document that launched the years-long Russia collusion hoax

A cynic might suggest that a firm capable of manufacturing the Steele dossier would have no trouble forging a birth certificate. One only wonders why Kamala didn’t commission Perkins Coie to dummy up a McDonald’s W-2.

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