Members of the public searching the federal database for the commander in chief's registration are suddenly finding new difficulty, possibly due to the startling revelation of Obama's alleged use of a Connecticut-based Social Security Number.
The Selective Service System, or SSS, collects names of Americans for use by the Department of Defense in the event of a national emergency. On its website, it says it provides the nation "with a structure and a system of guidelines which will provide the most prompt, efficient, and equitable draft possible, if the country should need it."
Regarding President Obama, "He is registered. There is no doubt in our minds that he has, and we're quite prepared to say so," SSS public-affairs specialist Dan Amon told WND.
But the agency's online search engine now appears to be precluding the public from seeing Obama's record after allowing unfettered access.
The database allows people to search for registrants as long as a correct name, Social Security Number and date of birth are entered.
On May 5, WND entered the criteria for President Obama, using his date of birth as Aug. 4, 1961, and his Social Security Number, which begins with the Connecticut-issued prefix of 042.
The Selective Service database instantly issued a "matched record" without a problem that day, indicating Obama's Selective Service Number is 61-1125539-1. It lists date of registration as Sept. 4, 1980.
However, when WND re-entered the same information on May 20, the database did not provide the matched record, but instead posted a message, stating, "Error. Sorry, your request cannot be processed at this time because you have exceeded the daily limit for the verification of these credentials."
WND asked Selective Service what was causing the sudden problem in retrieving records.
Amon said it's likely because many people across the nation are now searching for Obama's records.
"If you run into problems, others have, too," he said.
Amon says a hacking attempt several years ago prompted the agency to beef up security to prevent future electronic attacks. He initially said the agency created a limit of three verification requests per day for any given record.
"If someone in Omaha, Neb., does it on a whim, then someone in Ohio does it, then that's two times."
He said when more than three requests are submitted – no matter where they're entered from – people would see the error message noting the daily limit has been exceeded.
"It's like 20 people trying to crowd into a doorway," Amon explained. "If nobody else in the world is doing it, if you punch it in the format suggested, [you get good results]; but if others try, then it will shut it down."
However, when WND repeatedly entered valid information for another American registrant, it received a matched record without any error message despite dozens of requests in the same day.
Amon later indicated his statement about the limit of three was "more of a guess."
He said he checked with the information-technology department about the limit, and admitted, "They got a little edgy."
"They just didn't want to answer it," Amon said, explaining the IT administrators did not wish to "divulge specifics of the system."
2 comments:
The last sentence sounds like Wicomico County.
Ooops! One avenue they neglected to scrub.
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