Hillary Clinton Wants Area 51 Transparency (Slow News Day)
Hillary On Area 51 Secrets: ‘I Think We Ought To Share It With The Public’, Daily Caller
“Hillary Clinton says barring any national security risk, she would like to open up the government files on Area 51 to the public if she is elected president. “I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible,” she told Jimmy Kimmel Thursday night on his late night ABC talk show. “If there’s nothing there, let’s tell people there’s nothing there.” When Kimmel followed up by asking what she would do if she discovered there was actually something alarming in the files, Clinton replied: “Well, if there is something there, unless it’s a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.”
Geez, Hilary, this is not a hard concept. It’s a military site that houses and tests assets that are vital to our National Security. There are reasons that bleeding edge military technology and capabilities are kept secret.
Anyone who’s been involved with classified material will tell you that there is a tendency to over-classify and over-compartmentalise things which already are or should be in the public domain, and/or should be shared between agencies. Essentially, it’s trivial to restrict something, but much harder to get it released. So it acts like a one-way ratchet.
[See the KSC photography ban thread for people talking about overreaching, silly “security”.]
For eg, all the information needed to prevent the 9/11 attacks was available to US agencies. But it wasn’t available to the specific agents/analysts who picked up rumours about an attack on the US, and (separately) about AQ’s then obsession with crashing aircraft. The investigation afterwards found that little of the compartmentalisation was necessary, it was just habit/SoP.
Similarly, there is a tendency for material to be classified/compartmentalised and then essentially forgotten. During the Clinton presidency, there was a review of such practices, and a crapload of material was declassified (including UFO-stuff like the Roswell incident), but that ratchet-effect means that unless there’s constant attention paid to the issue, things will always drift back to over-classifying/over-compartmentalising, agency non-cooperation, and historical black-holing.
All that said, it’s odd that H.Clinton brought this up during the campaign. It’s not like there’s a large UFO-nut group who will vote Democrat, and it obviously feeds the right-wing memes (as seen in this thread.) Not seeing the point. Why not wait until after the election?
HRC brought it up as a smokescreen, thats all…still, I disagree with your desire to analyze the whats and whys of security. If you’ve personal experience and it were important to you I should also think you’d not choose to discuss in this forum. I’m also guessing you miss the old SciFi channel. -30-
Isn’t it obvious she has no concern about our national security.
Especially from the little gray aliens that her campaign manager (Podesta) seems to be obsessed with.
Well of course.. everyone knows the Clintons are in league with the reptilians .. so of course they want to expose the grays…
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It’s about time someone tackles these important issues.
Does this count as a space policy position from a presidential candidate? These days, I think it’ll have to do.
Like I said “slow news day” 😉
Yup. Letting all those illegal aliens in. We’ll need a space wall surrounding Earth to keep them out.
..and the alien’s government will pay for said wall.
That’s probably why Trump thinks the Air Force has a Space Fence!
What’s the big mystery? It’s an aircraft testing facility, and has been for decades.
Well, she is experienced at releasing classified information!
It seems to me any presidential candidate should avoid mentioning anything in regards to the space program (though Area 51 has nothing to do except myth of freeze dried space aliens and their leftover spacecraft housed in Hanger 18). Example they will say something from perspective of little knowledge or thought. But then can also be example of almost everyone (except those who work or follow such programs) have no idea what our space program does, done, hasn’t done, and will never do.
Just a pathetic attempt to generate votes from the conspiracy and UFO crowd.
Nah. Already had my vote.
and thats why he used the word “pathetic” 😉
There actually is a facility with several buildings near the old Complex 17 at CCAFS with a prominent sign saying “Area 53” I never saw an Area 51 sign, but how did they get to Area 53 unless it existed?
To be fair, it looks like Ms. Clinton was responding to a question and simply said that any existing documents should be made public if possible. She did not bring up the topic. mention Area 51, or suggest she believes in UFOs.
Lawyer Jonathan Turley was involved in lawsuits about two dead workers who were supposed to have been exposed to toxic fumes from the burning of hazardous waste at Area 51.
She really wants this, or is pandering for votes. Somehow I think if it’s what she really wanted, she would have taken action on it as Secretary of State.
Hasn’t anybody here every heard of Richard Hoagland, or John Lear? Sheesh. Do I have to tell you guys (and ladies, now, thank you) everything??