1/3) The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary today testifies before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee regarding its investigation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who has been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ABA panel solicited input from 944 persons.
2/3) ABA investigation conclusion: "Judge Barrett meets the highest standards of integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament." The ABA panel conferred on Barrett its highest rating, "Well Qualified." #federaljudiciary #confirmamy
3/3) "Most remarkably, in interviews with individuals in the legal profession and community who know Judge Barrett, whether for a few years or decades, not one person uttered a negative word about her character."
1/9) BREAKING: Dept. of Defense release: "On Aug. 4, 2020, Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force (UAPTF). The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the
2/9) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the UAPTF. The Department of Defense established the UAPTF to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs. The mission of the task force is to detect,
3/9) analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security."
The UAP Task Force actually has been around for awhile, operating within the Office of Naval Intelligence and under the media radar.
1/19) UPDATE and INQUIRY: In the much-discussed UAP-related language found in the June 17 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report on the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA), one of the subjects that the Director of National Intelligence would be instructed
2/19) to cover in a 2021 UAP report is "3. A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data [sic] over restricted United States airspace."
3/19) When the SSCI report was published on June 17, some people speculated about the purpose of the FBI reference.
1/7) On the 7-17-20 Joe Rogan show, George Knapp said, "We are told that the New York Times is working on another follow up story, to look into reports of what Lazar said: Crash retrievals, reverse engineering..." Well, Lazar is not in the story, yet Lazarists claim vindication.
2/7) Nope! Lazar's tales are the product of a serial-prevaricating, resume-fabricating, non-scientist, convicted felon. He has been caught in many lies and contradictions, he has profited from his tales in many ways,and after 30 years there is no corroboration for his core story.
3/7) It is curious that Lazarists now are trying to latch onto a NY Times article that is built in large part on quotes from astrophysicist Eric Davis. Davis said this in 2018: “Bob Lazar made up his entire cockamamie story about the UFO that he saw in a building inside Area-51."
1/10) UAP CONGRESSIONAL NEWS: The U.S. Senate yesterday (July 23, 2020) passed the National Defense Authorization bill (NDAA), S. 4049, 86-14. Tucked inside it is the entire Intelligence Authorization bill (S. 3905) -- the bill to which
2/10) is attached the request of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) for a public report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). So for those interested in UAP, S. 4049 is now the bill to watch.
3/10) Be aware, however, that this combo Defense+Intelligence legislation is still a long way from enactment. It is unlikely that the legislation will be enacted prior to an anticipated post-election lame-duck session (so, November-December).
1/5) Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.), acting chair, Senate Intelligence Cmte: "There are things flying over your military bases, and you don't know what they are... and they exhibit, potentially, technologies that you don't have at your own disposal -- #ufo
2/5) "that to me is a national security risk, and one that we should be looking into." Here is what the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), said following a classified Navy briefing on the same topic: "I think people are taking this much more seriously...
3/5) "One of the key takeaways I have is the military and others are taking this issue seriously, which I think in previous generations may not have been the case." (June 20, 2019)
1/5) BREAKING: For several weeks in Dec 2019-Jan. 2020, unidentified machines, flying at night in large groups and formations, were reported by numerous citizens and law enforcement officers in NE Colorado and adjacent regions of NE and KS. With at least two U.S. senators
2/5) and news media demanding answers, top-level FAA officials launched an intensive investigation to find out who was flying the machines. As a volunteer researcher affiliated with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, I've spent four months, employing FOIA, to look