Transparency would be nice, and the more information provided by the executive branch the better. However, aside from past such hopes being disappointed, there’s the larger issue brought forth by Grusch that there are USAPs hidden from Congress and illegally financed. Not to mention that there has been illegal disinformation campaigns. Congress must reassert its authority of oversight and budgetary control, and should not merely trust the executive branch, no matter who is in charge. This is a Constitutional issue, not political.
It would fall on Intel and Armed Services committees, not Oversight. Since establishment Warhawks Wicker, Cotton, Turner, and Rogers aren’t transparent with or directly obfuscating anything classified regarding UAP, and with Rubio on his way to the State Dept, it is going to fall on the Executive branch to dig up the dirty secrets.
Politics aside, I think Gabbard, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Waltz, Rubio, RFK, Patel, Bondi, Ramaswamy, and Musk are being instructed to clean out the trash in the executive bureaucracy. With the exception of Rubio, they are all very anti-establishment and have little reason to maintain the status quo.
If you’ve been paying attention, there is an entire coalition of big tech (Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Altman, Bezos, Karp, Zuckerberg, etc)-adjacent appointees in this new administration. Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, and OpenAI are forming a coalition to challenge legacy contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, etc.) for bringing the defense-intelligence complex into the future to outpace China. (Fun fact: This is also happening with commerce/treasury as it pertains to crypto).
Coincidentally, Former Congressman Mike Gallagher has been named head of defense at Palantir. Thiel definitely is informed on this subject and wants his hands on that tech, IMO. I think we’re in for an exciting 4 years.
By oversight I meant the general legislative function rather than the committee. To me Big Tech versus Old Aerospace is like watching King Kong battle Godzilla. It’s entertaining, but no matter who wins Tokyo is going to be rubble. This struggle is about who controls the goodies, in other words money and power. How do we know Big Tech will be any less possessive of information than Big Aerospace? I don’t see a reason to believe they would be. That’s why we can’t depend on the executive branch to police itself, any more than we can depend on AARO to investigate what the DoD has covered up for decades. Congress as an institution (and yes, perhaps especially the Gang of Eight) has been sidelined, or sidelined itself (through passing the buck and looking for contributors’ bucks) by not demanding accountability and transparency from the DoD, IC, and DoE on UAP. The institutional authority of Congress has been eroded and undermined. To restore it, the initiative must come from Congress itself. They must investigate and take action. Waiting on the executive to be given the truth on a silver platter is to sanction a relationship of subordination and dependency. I think this is unhealthy. A bird has to flap its own wings (speaking of Twitter 😆).
Fair enough. We’ll leave it at ‘to be determined’. I’m cautiously optimistic with the incoming cabinet members. If nothing comes from the new administration post-investigation, I’m going to assume there are some seriously disturbing aspects to the truth which might actually destabilize society in a real way, controlled disclosure or not.
I always assumed that the truth, even to the extent that it could be revealed, would be destabilizing, both philosophically and culturally. Somber, as Lue put it. But it’s not easy to infer who or what they would be protecting from being disturbed by continuing to conceal that truth.
Matt Laslo, great work!
Cheers!
Here is an extremely interesting U.S. government UFO document.
https://ufointel.substack.com/p/us-government-ufo-document-video
Transparency would be nice, and the more information provided by the executive branch the better. However, aside from past such hopes being disappointed, there’s the larger issue brought forth by Grusch that there are USAPs hidden from Congress and illegally financed. Not to mention that there has been illegal disinformation campaigns. Congress must reassert its authority of oversight and budgetary control, and should not merely trust the executive branch, no matter who is in charge. This is a Constitutional issue, not political.
It would fall on Intel and Armed Services committees, not Oversight. Since establishment Warhawks Wicker, Cotton, Turner, and Rogers aren’t transparent with or directly obfuscating anything classified regarding UAP, and with Rubio on his way to the State Dept, it is going to fall on the Executive branch to dig up the dirty secrets.
Politics aside, I think Gabbard, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Waltz, Rubio, RFK, Patel, Bondi, Ramaswamy, and Musk are being instructed to clean out the trash in the executive bureaucracy. With the exception of Rubio, they are all very anti-establishment and have little reason to maintain the status quo.
If you’ve been paying attention, there is an entire coalition of big tech (Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Altman, Bezos, Karp, Zuckerberg, etc)-adjacent appointees in this new administration. Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, and OpenAI are forming a coalition to challenge legacy contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, etc.) for bringing the defense-intelligence complex into the future to outpace China. (Fun fact: This is also happening with commerce/treasury as it pertains to crypto).
Coincidentally, Former Congressman Mike Gallagher has been named head of defense at Palantir. Thiel definitely is informed on this subject and wants his hands on that tech, IMO. I think we’re in for an exciting 4 years.
P.S. come back to Twitter, J.
By oversight I meant the general legislative function rather than the committee. To me Big Tech versus Old Aerospace is like watching King Kong battle Godzilla. It’s entertaining, but no matter who wins Tokyo is going to be rubble. This struggle is about who controls the goodies, in other words money and power. How do we know Big Tech will be any less possessive of information than Big Aerospace? I don’t see a reason to believe they would be. That’s why we can’t depend on the executive branch to police itself, any more than we can depend on AARO to investigate what the DoD has covered up for decades. Congress as an institution (and yes, perhaps especially the Gang of Eight) has been sidelined, or sidelined itself (through passing the buck and looking for contributors’ bucks) by not demanding accountability and transparency from the DoD, IC, and DoE on UAP. The institutional authority of Congress has been eroded and undermined. To restore it, the initiative must come from Congress itself. They must investigate and take action. Waiting on the executive to be given the truth on a silver platter is to sanction a relationship of subordination and dependency. I think this is unhealthy. A bird has to flap its own wings (speaking of Twitter 😆).
Fair enough. We’ll leave it at ‘to be determined’. I’m cautiously optimistic with the incoming cabinet members. If nothing comes from the new administration post-investigation, I’m going to assume there are some seriously disturbing aspects to the truth which might actually destabilize society in a real way, controlled disclosure or not.
I always assumed that the truth, even to the extent that it could be revealed, would be destabilizing, both philosophically and culturally. Somber, as Lue put it. But it’s not easy to infer who or what they would be protecting from being disturbed by continuing to conceal that truth.
I appreciate her not rubber stamping the UAP designation on these drones just yet. Luna is ex-USAF, so she knows her stuff.