Many clearance levels are permitted only after AT LEAST 15 YEARS IN FEDERAL SERVICE IN PROVEN SECURE JOB DESCRIPTIONS, ROLES.
The idea that any such restrictions cover the President and Congress as an institution is nonsensical. The only legal force any such restrictions would have are what they are given by law. So, in addition to finding the statute that specifically forbids contact with ET's, how about finding that one? Because I don't believe for a moment that there is any enforceable law that legally bars the President from having access to any classified material. I was in the military, and I'm a lawyer and acquainted with the federal justice system. I'd love to see that law, because it doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist because it cannot legally exist. I've had enough of a clearance to know that there are levels of clearance whose titles/names are themselves classified. That means they cannot be mentioned in any law, since to mention them would itself disclose classified material. Absent such a law, such restriction is legally unforceable against the President because it would not be based on a legally enforceable law or regulation. And probably would be unconstitutional even if it did exist.
Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that there is a point at which critical mass in disclosure has been achieved and more or less all the cats are out of all the bags or sufficient numbers of cats are out that the remaining cats in the remaining bags don't make a lot of difference. That peak of the disclosure graph must occur during our lifetime. Nothing else is remotely logical, IMHO.
The fact that there are so many people who still don't buy it shows that we haven't reached that point, and aren't close. I'd add that since detection methods, cameras, video, etc. have all increased tremendously in recent years, you cannot tell whether there is truly more contact, or the same amount of contact being reported more efficiently.
Well, given your alluded to spiritual biases, I can appreciate that you would decline to face such realities.
I have no idea what biases to which you are referring. I think linking ET's, the military-industrial complex, and Satan is tin-foil hat stuff. ET's may exist, the "complex" exists at least in some form, and Satan may exist. But the linkage of all three is just loony. You claim that people that don't see things your way are blind to evidence. Fine -- what is the evidence linking Satan to ET's or to the military industrial complex. And "I think there's a connection" isn't evidence.
It's one thing to say "it's possible that ET's have visited Earth." Sure, that's possible, so I wouldn't discount the possibility. But when you add to it the air of certainty, or even probability, that you give it, then link it to Ike's speech, an alleged government-wide conspiracy that crosses national borders for completely unexplained motives, and Satan's plan to dominate the world, you've left the realm of reasonable inquiry and entered pure fantasy.