Astrologers' customs for accepting AA data

[Ray Murphy]

Hi All,

In another thread Todd said, in reference to the debate about Senator
Obama's stated/published birth time:

>[...] The chart's Rodden Rating should be considered DD. There's too much
controversy to give it any other rating.

>I don't agree that the Obama camp is necessarily to blame for this
>confusion. I do believe, however, that it would be really easy for them to
>clear this up if they really wanted to....Apparently, they don't want to.

My question here is - what principles or tests should astrologers
apply when they are deciding whether to accept or reject AA-rated
birth data?

Up until now it seems that astrologers have taken "AA-rated" birth
data at face value from almost anyone who claims to have sighted the
birth certificate or a facsimile of it, and that confidence level
would stay with us unless a flaw was apparent in the document or in
the reporting person's credibility.

Ray