Why Lt. Col. Lakin is not mistaken

Socrates famously said that an unexamined life is not worth living. However that may be, there's new proof everyday that a critically unexamined so-called news report is not worth reading.
 A case in point: A slyly derogatory article at foxnews.com purporting to discuss the prospects of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin's effort to obtain, by means of a military trial, evidence that bears on the question of Barack Obama's eligibility for the office of President of the United States.
The article sports a headline that applies to Lt. Col Lakin the inaccurate epithet "birther" invented by Obama faction propagandists to distract from the profound question of Constitutional authority that is really at stake. It goes on to suggest that Lt. Col. Lakin made some kind of legal procedural error ("has chosen the wrong venue") by declining to obey doubtfully lawful orders issued in the name of the President of the United States.
There is no question that doubt exists as to the Constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama for the Office of President. Had there been any authoritative pronouncement on the subject from an impartial and constitutionally empowered element of the U.S. government (the Supreme Court or the Congress) the officers of the military would be obliged to defer to that authoritative and constitutionally authorized judgment. But the Congress has refused to address the subject, and the Supreme Court of the United States has evaded the issue.
Lt. Col. Lakin is not the one who has mistaken his actions. Indeed, he shows the intelligence, courage and common sense thus far sorely lacking among the civilian authorities for whose Constitutional position he shows great respect that they themselves have so far demonstrated. I have no doubt that he hopes, as we should all pray, that his case will advance until it puts before these so far `shamefully derelict authorities' a conscientiously inescapable opportunity to stop evading their duty, and to heed, as Lt. Col. Lakin has, the clearly stated requirements of the Constitution they are sworn to uphold.