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Less than a week after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration held its first public hearing one year into its study into Unidentified Flying Objects or Unidentifed Aerial Phenomena, "a former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin."
According to a report published on the science website the Debrief on Monday by investigative journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal – who authored the 2017 New York Times exposé revealing the Pentagon's secret UFO division — David Charles Grusch "filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegalretaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time. Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record."
Grusch, "a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA's co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force," per Kean and Blumenthal.
Grusch spoke exclusively with News Nation about what he knows.
Recovery units "are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed," Grusch told correspondent Ross Coulthart. "I thought it was totally nuts and I thought at first I was being deceived, it was a ruse,” Grusch told Coulthart. "People started to confide in me. Approach me. I have plenty of senior, former, intelligence officers that came to me, many of which I knew almost my whole career, that confided in me that they were part of a program."
The outlet noted that it "confirmed Grusch's credentials and resume, but has not seen or verified the alleged proof he said he provided to investigators. Grusch said he can’t show NewsNation the evidence for national security reasons. Grusch also said he has not seen photos of the alleged craft himself, but has spoken extensively with other intelligence officials who have."
Nonetheless, Grusch said that "there is a sophisticated disinformation campaign targeting the US populist which is extremely unethical and immoral" and declared that "we're definitely not alone. The data points, quite empirically that we're not alone.”
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Mark Meadows testified before grand jury and could be part of Jack Smith's probe into Trump: report
June 06, 2023
Former chief of staff Mark Meadows has been largely quiet recently, New York Times reporter Mike Schmidt told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, and they wondered why that might be.
As it turns out, Schmidt explained, it's been discovered that Meadows, a "potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel’s office, according to two people briefed on the matter."
There are two investigations under Smith – one relates to the classified document scandal and the other goes to the Jan. 6 attack and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Meadows has been a large part of the latter, though it isn't clear which investigation he testified in.
The Times characterized Meadows as a polarizing figure in the Trump White House, who served as nothing more than a glorified gatekeeper. Lately, Trump's aides and allies have been confused about why Meadows has kept his head down. "Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers believe he could be a significant witness in the inquiries," Schmidt said.
Trump himself has asked about Meadows, those familiar with the president's conversations told the Times.
Meadows' lawyer George Terwilliger, said, “Without commenting on whether or not Mr. Meadows has testified before the grand jury or in any other proceeding, Mr. Meadows has maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has a legal obligation to do so.”
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Trump may have a trick up his sleeve to get a better jury in classified documents case: expert
June 06, 2023
Special counsel Jack Smith has brought witnesses to testify before a second grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe — this time in South Florida — and that could give Trump some ammo for his defense.
This is another sign that the investigation is building evidence toward a major charging decision — but, according to legal affairs analyst Paula Reid on CNN's "The Lead" Tuesday, it also hints at a potential card former President Donald Trump has in his deck to improve his odds of beating charges.
"Most of our reporting has been about the grand jury meeting in D.C. over these documents," said anchor Jake Tapper. "What do we know about the other, separate grand jury in Florida?"
"At least one witness will go before the grand jury, and up until now the investigation is in Washington, D.C.," said Reid. "But even at the beginning of the investigation, there were questions about whether D.C. was the proper — what is called venue, a proper place to bring will case if they were going to charge the former president or anyone else, because most of the alleged conduct happened down in Florida. You could argue that these records were supposed to be with the Archives, with the government here in D.C., that some were taken from the White House. But at this point it is unclear why they are starting to hear from witnesses down in Florida. So that means they could charge other people."
However, she continued, "if the former president is charged here in D.C., his legal team will challenge the venue, and then the special counsel will have to convince a court that the fact that again documents belong to the Archives, that that is enough to bring the case here. And you can bring obstruction charges anywhere an investigation is happening. But so it is more about the documents about possible defense information. But to try the former president down in Florida, that is not a friendly jury pool. So the DOJ is in a tough spot."
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"Not a friendly jury pool for the prosecutors?" Tapper clarified.
"Yeah, it will be a challenge potentially to successfully convict the former president if they choose to charge him," said Reid. "But if they bring charges up here, still a big if, we know there will be a challenge on venue. And once again, we are in unchartered waters here."
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