White House Caught In a Lie

Lying is routine for the Obama White House as we've seen with the recent debt debate. Many of you believe that Obama lied about his citizenship, and that he is not Constitutionally qualified to serve as President. I’m sure there are also a few of you that think Obama’s citizenship doesn’t matter. Regardless of what you think about the “birther” issue, one thing we can be certain of is that the Obama White House lies.

Earlier this year Liberty Legal Foundation served the White House with some court documents in the Obamacare Class Action lawsuit. These documents were served by certified mail with a return receipt. Normally when certified mail is delivered the recipient signs and dates the return receipt with the postal carrier acting as witness. The return receipt is then returned to the sender of the legal document as proof of service.

Everything is different when dealing with the White House. Unlike certified mail delivery to any other American, return receipts to the President are date stamped by White House staff. The postal carrier is not a witness, so he or she can’t ensure that the correct date is placed on the return receipt.

When Liberty Legal Foundation received its return receipt from the White House on April 11th, it was date stamped by the White House as delivered on May 7th. You read that correctly, a return receipt in our possession on April 11th was date stamped by the White house as delivered a full four weeks AFTER Liberty Legal got the receipt. Unless the President has invented a time machine that he hasn’t told anyone about, the date on this return receipt was impossible. I’ve never received a letter from the future before. I was pretty amazed.

You don’t have to take our word for it. The information age we live in has many wonders. One of which is real-time tracking of mail deliveries by the U.S. Post Office. Once we received our letter from the future we got on-line at the Post Office web site and tracked our certified mail package. According to the U.S. Post Office the White House actually received our certified mail on April 4th.

Giving the White House staff the benefit of the doubt, their date stamp could have been a simple mistake. However, it wasn’t off by exactly a month. It wasn’t off by a single day. Either of these could easily happen by mistake. Other errors could be explained by a believable mistake. But how does a date stamp get “accidentally” set wrong for both the month and the day? Such a mistake is very unlikely.

What makes it even more improbable that it was a mistake was that the Justice department did exactly the same thing, but with different dates. The Justice department received the OCA documents on 4/1/2011 yet the return receipt was date stamped 5/5/2011.

You may be thinking that stamping the wrong date on a return receipt is trivial. Well, it is and it isn’t. It’s true that the world didn’t come to an end. However, the trustworthiness of the U.S. Postal System was damaged. This IS important. The U.S. Postal System is presumed by American courts to be very reliable and even more trustworthy. When a certified mail return receipt is dated and postmarked, it is almost impossible to convince a U.S. court that the date is wrong. This is because of the presumed incorruptibility of the U.S. Postal system.

The Post Office’s reputation has been earned through VERY strict Federal laws with VERY harsh penalties, actively enforced. What do you think will happen to this hard-earned reputation when the leadership of our country blatantly commits mail fraud, with no consequences?

The biggest reason this incident is not trivial is because it was perpetrated by the White House. This particular return receipt, it turns out, is not important. Had all the Defendants committed fraud by stamping the wrong date, they could have set our case back by another 6 weeks. However since most Defendants did not alter the date, this will not determine any important issue in the OCA lawsuit.

But the fact that we have proof that the White House lied is very important. The fact that the White House is willing to place a fraudulent date on a U.S. Post Office document related to a Federal lawsuit proves that the White House will lie about anything. Lying is routine for the Obama Administration. What else have they lied about?