“cleared his statement in advance (as accurate).”
Cleared as accurate? I doubt it. Their job is to clear statements as not including classified or sensitive national security information. They are not fact checkers.
Bob Lazar talked about this years ago and the powers that be made some pretty laughable attempts to discredit him.
I talked to an interesting guy several years ago who said his dad was one of the guys trying to reverse engineer some of the alien technology. I really wouldn’t be shocked that my dad might have been working or at least quizzed about some of it when he was working on the Test Site.
That said, as I understand it--and I may be wrong--the information Grusch released to the public is included with information included in his classified testimony to Congress and in a classified complaint to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. Obviously, the information he released to the public was unclassified but was part of his classified testimony.
Though his testimony of classified and unclassified evidence was not, per se, a DOD work product, it was cleared for accuracy (the DOPSR does clear Work Products for accuracy) because it was testimony made about his work as an official.
This is a point that was made in one of the interviews with Ross Coulthart.
Let me repeat, because there was so much material, I may have misunderstood this point.