Here’s
an unexpected side effect of the Covid-19 Stimulus bill that President Trump
signed on Sunday. It started a 180-day countdown in which both the Pentagon and
various spy agencies were required to disclose what they know about UFOs. This
provision was hidden, or obscured, in the massive bill that was over 5000 pages
long. Our representatives and senators had a couple of hours to read the bill,
so you know that they all knew exactly what they were voting for.
Senator
Marco Rubio, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, “[It] directs
the [director of national intelligence], in consultation with the Secretary of
Defense and the heads of other such agencies… to submit a report within 180
days of the date of the enactment of the act, to the congressional intelligence
and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena [UFOs, in other
words].”
We
have gone through this time and again. There have been presidential directives
and there have been congressional investigations and they have not led us to
disclosure. We have seen the Air Force manipulate the situation when they
bought the University of Colorado study, telling them in advance what they wanted
to be found. We have seen the CIA put together a mock hearing in 1953, chaired
by Dr. Robertson, in which they suggested that the idea of UFOs be debunked
(which, BTW, isn’t necessarily a bad thing) but the real point was to bury the
interest in UFOs, rather than explain or identify the problem.
We
have even seen the Air Force lie to a United States Senator, telling him that
there was no such thing as Project Moon Dust (which had a UFO component) only
to change that lie when documentation for Moon Dust was presented. Now, rather
than denying it existed, they said it had never been deployed… another lie
contradicted by that same documentation.
The
other problem here is national security. Using that as an excuse to hid the truth
is an old dodge. And, just how far can they go, using that excuse? Can they
deny the Intelligence Committee the information because of national security or
can they just sort of leave some of the information out of the presentation?
After all, they must now scramble to find the data and include it in the
report.
Finally,
if the specter of national security raises its ugly head, can that be used as
an excuse not to say anything to those of us who have an interest in the topic?
That means just one more classified
document that will be heavily redacted if any portions of it are released under
FOIA.
The
public answer, I’ll bet, will be that we looked into it, and there were some
issues that can be seen as national security (methods of gathering the data for
one) that prohibits the release of sections of this report to the general
public… after all, we know that our senators and representatives are better
equipped to understand this than we peons toiling out here in the real world.
2 comments:
Actually, none of the Senators or Representatives read the entire bill. They have a large staff that does it for them. Most of the bills are at least a thousand pages and they would never be able to do their jobs fully if they had to read them alone.
If there is anything they would object to, the staff members would bring it up to them. Otherwise, they read the disclosure parts and didn't say anything about it. Maybe they didn't mention it to the Congress members either.
Of course they have staffs who read the bills but the real point was they had about two hours from delivery to vote... The real point is that they were voting on a stimulus bill that contained all sorts of esoteric items, the least of which was the UFO component. Just thought it important to mention that the blind are leading the blind... a comment that I'm sure will trigger someone.
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