Obama Sr. and DSK's accuser

I can't be the only reader whose mind jumped to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser when I read this:

Mr. Obama’s father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., told immigration officials that Ann Dunham, whom he had recently married, would make “arrangements with the Salvation Army to give the baby away,” one document said...

An immigration official had become leery of his “playboy ways” and thought Mr. Obama might have more than one wife, which can be grounds for deportation. Mr. Obama said at the time — falsely — that he had divorced his Kenyan wife, with whom he had two children.

The excerpt of the book says it is unclear whether Mr. Obama intended to have his son adopted or if he was fabricating the story to appease immigration officials. Mr. Obama often gave contradictory answers on the forms, sometimes leaving questions about his marital status blank. 

Jesse Ellison recently reported on the pressures that induce refugees seeking asylum to lie. While the stakes are lower for those on student visas, like Obama Sr., the mind set is still instructive: