[andy_card]

You vastly overestimate the Federal Government's ability to keep anything secret. Everything comes out. Republican Administrations, Democratic, it don't make a damn's bit worth of difference. The bureaucrats are all primadonnas who like to see themselves quoted in the papers.

If anybody were even considering covering up hundred-billion dollar moon bases, alien civilizations, or anything of even the slightest public interest, we'd know about it pretty quick. As someone who worked for the government for many years, the total transparency was always one of my biggest frustrations. But then again, I didn't work with Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones in the Department of Alien Hunting. Maybe they're more competent...

[Quix]

Your contention seems logical.

But there are things from WWII etc. that are still very secret. Certainly from the Viet Nam war. It CAN be done.

Whether THAT secret could be kept SO well remains to be seen. I could believe that it can. Only time will tell.