Sheriff Joe Assigns Deputy To Obama Birth Certificate Probe

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has sent one of his deputies to Hawaii to assist volunteer investigators investigating President Obama's birth certificate.

The deputy joined Mike Zullo, a volunteer member of Arpaio's cold-case team, in this week because of what Arpaio called "security issues" and because the investigation has progressed.

"It's one deputy, so what? We have security issues, too, that I can't got into," Arpaio told the Tucson Citizen . "For six months we were not spending any money. When you're doing investigations, sometimes things change. You put more resources into it."