(commonly known as "Obama's Counsins' Mama Leak Gate")

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The government is investigating whether any laws were broken in the disclosure that Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango(zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), was living in the country illegally.

Obama's half aunt, who is from Kenya, was ordered to leave the United States years ago after an immigration judge denied her request for asylum, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss the case.

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Information about Onyango's case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release, just five days before the presidential