Pathetic Demise of a Birther

 BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

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AP

Terry Lakin

If the release of President Obama's birth certificate last month was the denouement of the birther saga, the release of Terrence Lakin from prison will be its bizarre coda.

Lakin is the veteran Army doctor who refused orders to redeploy to Afghanistan because he believed Obama was born abroad, not a legitimate president, and therefore that military orders were invalid.

Last December, Lakin, a lieutenant colonel, was dismissed from the Army and sentenced to six months in prison after, in the words of his supporters, inviting"his own court martial with the hopes that the normal processes of legal discovery would provide some answers." (The plan didn't work.)

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