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Why are key Republicans resisting transparency on UFOs?
The Hill ^ | marik von rennenkampff

Posted on 11/29/2023 9:04:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux

In July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), along with a bipartisan group of five other senators, announced sweeping legislation to declassify and release government information about unidentified flying objects.

The announcement coincided with, and seemed to corroborate, an extraordinary series of UFO-related developments. But now, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) appear poised to quash this bipartisan transparency initiative.

In the absence of reasonable, good-faith objections to the core provisions of the historic legislation, the question is why.

If there is nothing to hide and nothing to the UFO phenomenon, why would any member of Congress object to greater transparency and oversight of an executive branch prone to excessive and dangerous over-classification?

Or perhaps there is something to hide. According to Schumer, a sweeping investigation “led some in Congress to believe that the executive branch was concealing important information regarding [UFOs] over broad periods of time.”

This is corroborated by the inspector general of the intelligence community, who deemed a decorated whistleblower’s assertion that the government inappropriately concealed UFO-related information from Congress “credible and urgent.”

Moreover, as Senate Intelligence Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) noted in extraordinary detail, several high-level officials with top security clearances have told congressional investigators of the existence of surreptitious government UFO retrieval and “reverse engineering” programs. At the same time, 10 ex-government officials, military officers and scientists have alleged (or suggested) publicly that the U.S. government has recovered at least one UFO.

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1 posted on 11/29/2023 9:04:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Openurmind; Churchjack; eastforker; Levy78; maddog55; Jonty30; GingisK; Mark17; spirited irish; ...

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2 posted on 11/29/2023 9:05:29 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Easy, because they are real, and we have reverse engineered them and now have our own also.


3 posted on 11/29/2023 9:06:47 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RoosterRedux

If by chance you are interested in Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) and what is real and what is not, home grown or otherwise; you may want to watch this video with Steven Greer. It is a multifaceted subject and by necessity can’t be explained in just a few words so it is a little bit long, but it is worth watching.

https://youtu.be/p2hk8Qp8dd0?t=14


4 posted on 11/29/2023 9:09:44 AM PST by Saintgermain
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To: RoosterRedux

They don’t want our adversaries to know we are directly coordinating with aliens to acquire technology.


5 posted on 11/29/2023 9:09:59 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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As the article points out, the 2 reps who are behind this effort to strike the disclosure bill from the NDAA are Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, and Mike Turner, member of the Armed Serv. Comm. and Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (and from the district where Wright-Patterson is located in Ohio).

These 2 reps are under tremendous pressure from the DOD and Intel Community and from various contractors.

If there's nothing to disclose, why worry about the disclosure provision of the NDAA?

6 posted on 11/29/2023 9:10:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Bookmark


7 posted on 11/29/2023 9:11:06 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: RoosterRedux

Because they have not figured out a sure-fire way to both make money off their existence and keep wages low for Americans.


8 posted on 11/29/2023 9:12:14 AM PST by rustyboots
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To: Mariner

There’s nothing in the Disclosure Bill that requires the disclosure of anything classified.


9 posted on 11/29/2023 9:12:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I, for one, welcome our UAP overlords ...


10 posted on 11/29/2023 9:12:21 AM PST by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: RoosterRedux

You could replace “UFO” in this article with “J6” and it would be even more accurate.


11 posted on 11/29/2023 9:13:10 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: RoosterRedux

Republicans are typically more pro-military, and many of these things if not flat-out hoaxes are most likely classified military stuff.


12 posted on 11/29/2023 9:13:19 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RoosterRedux

Because it will reveal all those who have seen “UFOs” are batshit crazy.


13 posted on 11/29/2023 9:14:54 AM PST by chuckb87
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To: rustyboots
You may be correct about money being part of the motivation.

People in DC who are fighting for this bill say that disclosure will end the gravy train for some contractors because the bill includes eminent domain clauses for stuff currently housed and used by contractors. That stuff will have to be turned over to Congress.

14 posted on 11/29/2023 9:15:58 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Classified stuff would not be affected under the bill.


15 posted on 11/29/2023 9:17:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: chuckb87
The DOD has been saying that for 70 years by slandering its own people and destroying careers of people who see UFOs. But lately, whistleblowers are coming forward to expose that bullsh!t by the DOD and CIA.
16 posted on 11/29/2023 9:19:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: chuckb87
Because it will reveal all those who have seen “UFOs” are batshit crazy.

Sure. Batshit crazy seasoned naval pilots, airline pilots, radar operators, astronauts, astronomers...All crazy lunatics..

17 posted on 11/29/2023 9:29:39 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Fish Speaker

I might as well.


18 posted on 11/29/2023 9:30:36 AM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: RoosterRedux

Union government will NEVER reveal what they don’t want too.


19 posted on 11/29/2023 9:32:53 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Openurmind

No, because there are no aliens visiting Earth, and the whole alien thing was just concocted to explain away sightings of US aircraft testing so people wouldn’t take too much interest in military aviation.


20 posted on 11/29/2023 9:34:38 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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