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March 26, 2020, 7:27 PM ET
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The first active-duty military pilot to come forward to Congress about his encounter with unidentified flying objects is starting a non-profit group that seeks to lend support to other pilots who've had similar experiences, NBC News reported.
Advocates say professional pilots often face stigma and institutional obstacles when it comes to reporting a UFO sighting.
Ryan Graves, who founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, seeks to change that stigma.
“Unidentified objects in our airspace present an urgent and critical safety and national security issue, but pilots are not getting the support they need and the respect they deserve,” Graves said. “When I served, my squadron was encountering UAP nearly every day, and nothing was being done.”
While UFO phenomenon is usually conflated with aliens, the security threat they potentially pose likely has a more earthly urgency. "...from the undeclared drone attacks on Moscow apartment buildings this week to the recent flight of a Chinese spy balloon over sensitive U.S. military installations" advocates say traditional U.S. aerospace defenses aren’t equipped to detect them.
“The establishment of Americans for Safe Aerospace is long overdue,” retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet said in a statement. “As the chief meteorologist for the U.S. Navy, I dedicated my career to the safety of flight. I have seen firsthand how Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) have placed military pilots at risk, and we need to better understand them to reduce that risk.”
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Chuck Grassley admits GOP doesn't care if accusations against 'Vice President Biden' are true
June 01, 2023
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called for the FBI to turn over a document to the House Oversight Committee that Republicans believe raises questions about President Joe Biden and his family.
Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the panel was moving forward with holding FBI director Chris Wray in contempt of Congress for withholding the document, which he says contains evidence of "an alleged criminal scheme," although lawmakers have been cleared to review the document at the bureau's offices.
"Well, it's not good enough for me," Grassley told Fox News. "We asked for the document a month ago, it has been subpoenaed. We're doing the constitutional job of oversight. I have read that document. If he would read it and it is an unclassified document, he admits it exists and we aren't interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president Biden are accurate or not. We are responsible for making sure the FBI does its job, and that's what we want to know."
Grassley declined to characterize the findings but said Republicans would make them public once it was delivered to them, and he dismissed Wray's concerns about releasing the document.
"If he would read it, he would know that all the excuses he is giving us that he wants to protect sources, and that's important to protect sources, but that's not an issue with this document the way I read it," Grassley said. "He ought to come forth. They've got to produce this document. They are up against what the Durham report has said about the shortcomings and political bias of the FBI this is just one more example of them not being forthcoming to the public because the public's business ought to be public. and there is no reason for an unclassified document to be held in secret."
Grassley stopped short of characterizing the evidence as "damning," but said it suggests wrongdoing.
"Let's put it this way, there's accusations in it," he said. "But it's not for me to make a judgment about whether these accusations are accurate or not, it's up to my job to make sure the FBI is doing their job, and that's what this is all about as far as I'm concerned. Public's business ought to be public."
\u201cChuck Grassley on Fox News: "We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not."\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1685625278
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The co-hosts of The View began their Thursday show talking about the bombshell report that Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging about having a classified document containing plans for a potential attack on Iran.
They then played a clip of former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon: "If this reporting is true, and I'm trying not to use hyperbole, this is game over," he said.
"There is no way that he will not be charged. One, it is a tape recording. Even though the reporting is there are also witnesses, so there could be a tape recording with witnesses, it involves not just possession of classified information, but the dissemination of classified information. That puts it into a completely different ballpark when you are at the Department of Justice examining the seriousness of the violation and whether to bring charges."
They compared it to the tapes of Donald Trump speaking to Sean Hannity and from the CNN town hall where Kaitlan Collins probed him about if he still had classified documents.
"So what is the point of all this?" Whoopi Goldberg asked. "You know he's lying. He lies four seconds after you've heard him say good morning. I'm not being — I'm not trying to be funny. I'm trying to understand why he thinks the American people are so stupid that they're not going to remember from time to time, from incident to incident, what he's done. What is going on here?"
"I think that he gambles that his base doesn't care. It's not that they're stupid exactly, but they don't care what he does," Joy Behar said. "Like he said, I can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He's so stupid in a certain way. First of all, you were caught on tape saying you would grope women by their patooties, caught on tape trying to blackmail Georgia. He's always caught on tape. You would think he would know better than to keep taping himself."
They also recalled Trump being recorded with reporter Bob Woodward admitting the pandemic would "kill a lot of people," and a conversation where he attempted to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"What's most scary to me about this particular information that came out is that he admits that it's still classified, that it should have been declassified before leaving the White House, and he wants to share information from the document, but knows his ability to declassify it is limited because he's no longer president," said Sunny Hostin.
"He's crazy like a fox. That terrifies me. In my view, legally, what's most often the most difficult is intent, right? You've got to prove what was going on inside someone's mind. It's not like they have little bubbles over their head when they're testifying, saying I wanted to declassify it, and I didn't. Now you have a tape."
She noted that she would never call a case a "slam dump, but man, oh, man."
They began joking about the "lock him up" chants, but Goldberg compared it to police body cameras. "It doesn't always work out for folks."
Hostin explained that just having the documents would be enough to convict Trump, never mind refusing to give them back, talking about them and showing them to people.
"Well, it may not go away. If some people have their way, the president of the United States is going to be presiding over the country from federal prison, because that's still — you can still do that."
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