The machine knew how to make sure of FOIA obfuscation. It wasn’t until much later that Judicial Watch (IIRC) sued to get the documents showing that the satellite technology had been illegally sold by SecDef William Perry to a front company he knew was owned by the Chinese military leader’s wife.
IIRC, the Cox Report suggested that front companies should be looked at more closely, but AG Janet Reno refused to investigate. Because of that the DOD started an open-source data-mining project meant to discover suspicious connections between people and groups - a project called “Able Danger”. Able Danger’s information was ordered destroyed when they accurately found the connections between SecDef Perry’s company and the Chinese front company; some of the information destroyed was intel warning about an Al Qaeda cell based in Brooklyn, which later went on to attack the US on Sept 11, 2001.
When one of the researchers for Able Danger brought forward what had been done to Able Danger there were Cognressional hearings. The DOD gagged Shaffer to end the hearings, and Curt Weldon, the Cox Report’s research member who had pushed for the hearings, was defeated in his next election after a (Soros?) smear campaign.
So what does this mean? The DOD and DOJ both cover the a$$es of our domestic enemies because they are within our own leadership, and the media effectively wipes out anybody who tells the truth.
Not much has changed. And as long as the media runs interference for the crooks it’s not going to change because Congressional members have to get re-elected in order to do anything to stop these crimes. People like you and me will be called crazy and most people won’t know anything different until the mushroom cloud has wreaked its havoc.
It doesn’t take much looking to realize that the rabbit hole goes deep, and the more you look, the deeper it goes.