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When Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin announced in a YouTube video late last month that he would refuse to deploy to Afghanistan until President Obama produced a birth certificate, the news spread thanks to a PR operation by a virtually unknown group called the American Patriot Foundation.
The Patriot Foundation created a flashy Web site to promote Lakin's story, www.safeguardourconstitution.com…... started a legal defense fund, and posted documents from Lakin's Birther quest like a letter to Obama asking the president to "assure the American people that you are indeed Constitutionally eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief." A spokeswoman, Margaret Hemenway, was on hand to respond to media inquires.
It turns out that Hemenway is a former longtime GOP Hill staffer with a colorful past that includes an episode in which she filed a complaint because her daughter's 1st grade teacher announced she was marrying a woman. ("Since homosexual activists cannot reproduce their own children, recruitment to their cause ... is essential to the political agenda of promoting homosexuality and 'gay' marriage," Hemenway reportedly wrote at the time.)
Hemenway spent 15 years on the Hill working for prominent conservative members including Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), Sen. Bob Smith (R-NH), and as a policy analyst for the House Republican Study Committee, according to Hemenway's bios at various conservative publications. She also spent five years at the Defense Department and NASA "as a White House appointee" during the Bush Administration.