Time to DOGE Obama's Social Security #

It's A Fraud, and PI Susan Daniels Has the Receipts

For those that follow Ohio-based private investigator Susan Daniels on Substack, the fact that Barack Obama has been using a fraudulent Social Security Number (SSN) will not come as news. For those who are unaware of Daniels’s work, start with this article and then go to Susan’s Newsletter for the inside skinny.

Daniels, whom I have gotten to know over the years, is a proud participant in what I have come to think of America’s samizdat. Like its Soviet prototype, our samizdat is a loosely organized network of citizen journalists that serves as an antidote to the state sanctioned media. During the Obama years, the samizdat broke very close to all the stories that unnerved his administration.

In 2009, Daniels delivered what could have been a knockout blow, but the media refs kept it from landing. In 2025, with Trump in the White House and DOGE on the prowl, her chances of success are better, but they are far from guaranteed.

An extraordinary character, Daniels has a hell of a story to tell. A movie has been made about a life-shattering incident in the early part of her life. It’s called Kill the Irishman, stars Christopher Walken among others, and is defintely worth watching. More relevant to today’s discussion is Susan’s eye-popping book, The Rubbish Hauler's Wife versus Barack Obama.

As Daniels tells the story, her involvement with Barack Obama began in 2009 when a client asked Daniels to run a background check on the newly installed president. Working with her law firm clients, Daniels had run checks on thousands of individuals without anxiety or incident. This was different.

What Daniels planned to do was perfectly legal. That said, she had a generalized fear of retaliation from somewhere within the Deep State. Had Daniels been younger, had any of her seven children still depended on her, she probably would have punted. But at this stage of the game, she figured, if not now, when?

Daniels had access to proprietary databases denied to ordinary citizens. She entered “Barack Obama” and “Chicago” into one database without result. She tried with another and again came up empty. The third entry paid off. Up popped Obama’s name, his date of birth, an address in Chicago, and his Social Security number.

The SSN immediately struck her as fishy. Daniels knew the prefix “042” had to have an East Coast provenance. Inquiring further, she traced its issuance to Connecticut somewhere in the years between 1977 and 1979. Up until June 2011, and that date has meaning, Social Security numbers were distributed geographically. In 1977, as Daniels easily discovered, “042” SSNs were assigned only to individuals who applied from the state of Connecticut.

Intrigued, Daniels entered Obama’s SSN into another database and came up with a list of his past addresses in Illinois, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. Daniels learned that Obama was twenty-six years old when he first used this SSN. At that time, he was living in Chicago. She found the same Connecticut-based SSN for Obama with the Massachusetts driver’s license bureau in 1989 when he was at Harvard and on a 2009 tax return that a staffer carelessly posted online when he was president.

The mystery deepened with Daniels’s discovery that the SSN was first assigned in March 1977 to a person born in 1890. As she knew, the Social Security Administration never reissues a used number, but in March 1977 Obama was a fifteen-year-old living in Hawaii. Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, was about that age when she received her SSN in 1985 or 1986 with a standard Hawaiian prefix of “576.”

To firm up her case, Daniels traced the ten SSNs preceding Obama’s and the ten following. All of them were issued in March 1977 in Connecticut. In fact, she was able to pinpoint Monday, March 28, 1977, as the day the SSN for the 15-year-old Obama was authorized. There was no getting around the obvious: President Barack Obama had been using an anomalous and possibly fraudulent SSN for more than twenty years.

Daniels would have loved to get her hands on the original application for that number, but her efforts in that regard fell short. This might be a good opportunity for DOGE to step up.

Alarmed by what she had found, Daniels contacted her local congressman, a Republican, since deceased, but he ignored her entreaties. She wrote to any number of other members of Congress with comparable results. She looked to see if there was a lawsuit in process challenging Obama’s identity, but the lawyer to whom she volunteered her information did not strike Daniels as reliable.

While Daniels was working established channels, word of her find made its around the samizdat. In June 2010, WND reporter Les Kinsolving managed to raise the question of Obama’s SSN at a White House press briefing.

“Investigators Susan Daniels and John Sampson are asking why the president is using a Social Security number reserved for Connecticut applicants,” Kinsolving said to then press secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs tried to laugh off the statement, but Kinsolving persisted, “Do you know of any record that the president ever had a mailing address in Connecticut?”

Gibbs mockingly linked the question to the birth certificate issue. When Kinsolving tried to refocus the discussion on the SSN, Gibbs abruptly ended the briefing. This was as close as the story ever came to surfacing in the major media.

The fact-checking mafia took the story from there. Perhaps the best known of the leftist fact checkers is Snopes. In Daniels’s experience, and my own as well, Snopes seemed to have no greater purpose during Obama’s presidency than to kill stories potentially harmful to the president. The Obama SSN story proved to be a classic Snopes bait-and-switch.

Written by Snopes founder David Mikkelson and filed tellingly under the rubric “Birther,” the piece baited the audience with a legitimate question, “Did Barack Obama Steal His Social Security Number?”

Mikkelson then planted a big red X symbol and the word “False” in bold underneath the headline. Readers who preferred to remain ignorant of Obama’s foibles, journalists most notably, would have felt no need to go beyond the headline. Mikkelson proceeded to shoot down some random theories that Daniels herself had already debunked, but he stumbled on the Connecticut source of the SSN.

In a different era, the grudging admission that follows would have sent serious reporters scurrying to their local Social Security office. Wrote Mikkelson in seeming wonder, “Why Barack Obama’s Social Security card application might have included a Connecticut mailing address is something of a curiosity as he had no known connection to that state at the time.”

Mikkelson posted this article on June 13, 2011. Two weeks later, the Social Security Administration (SSA) introduced a process called “randomization.” This process eliminated “the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN.” The geographical indicator had been in place since 1935. Whether coincidence or not, this move by the SSA should have drawn attention to Obama’s dubious SSN.

Obama has inarguably been using an SSN that originated in Connecticut. This SSN is at least a “curiosity” and quite possibly a fraud. Reporters should have been all over this scandal in the making. They were not. Daniels surfaced the story in 2009 and was prominently attached to it in the alternative media, as well as at a White House press conference. Yet she never received a single call from anyone beyond the samizdat.

Doing the White House’s cleanup work, Mikkelson acknowledged the “discrepancy” but dismissed it as “a simple clerical or typographical error.” He then speculated that an accidental switch in initial digits led to an errant SSN for Obama. To Mikkelson’s humble credit, this was the best of the arguments circulating around the establishment side of the blogosphere.

One popular trope, unfortunately echoed by Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, was that the young Obama enrolled in Social Security because his father “lived in Connecticut for several years.” In some versions, the young Obama visited his father in Connecticut.

In O’Reilly’s version, “Babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents.” Either version would have gotten more traction if Obama Sr. had ever lived in Connecticut or if young Obama had visited him there, but Obama Sr. never lived in the Nutmeg State, and the young Obama never saw him in any state but Hawaii, and there only once.

The Obama faithful did not worry themselves with details, but Daniels did. Despite the undeniable evidence, no one in either the mainstream media or on the responsible right followed up on Daniels’s research. Journalists had less than zero interest in exposing what could have been a career-killing scandal.

Ignored by the media, Daniels filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court in July 2012. She demanded that Jon Husted, then Ohio Secretary of State, remove Obama’s name from the ballot until he could prove the legitimacy of his SSN. Not surprisingly, Husted blew her off.

Neither Husted nor anyone from his office showed up for the September 2012 court date. Their absence did not much matter. After a cursory hearing, Republican Judge David Fuhry promptly dismissed the case. End of story.

As Daniels could see up close, Barack Obama enjoyed a near immunity from press curiosity. Equally incurious were those “responsible” Republicans whose fear of being thought racist kept them from challenging Obama on any issue relating to his origins or identity.

Husted proved more timid than most. In December 2024, Daniels did not shy from sharing her opinion of the soon-to-be senator, posting online, “Jon Husted is a low-life politician and cannot be allowed to take the Senate seat of JD Vance.” She has never has been shy about speaking her mind. Now if only someone with clout will listen.

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