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John Greenewald: Hey everybody,
John Greenewald, here with the

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black vault.com. So if you
haven't heard, and you are into

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the UFO topic, and I know a lot
of you are, tomorrow will be the

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first congressional hearing on
UFOs, or unidentified aerial

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phenomena or UAP. As they, as
they now want to call them, the

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first hearing in more than 50
years. AD is amazing news,

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something I'm super excited
about. And I'll get to why I'm

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also realistic, in addition to
excited, but I think that this

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is a huge milestone. And so if
you have not heard that

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interview, excuse me, that
hearing is going to take place

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tomorrow, May 17. At this point
at the recording of this video,

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because they changed the time,
just just a couple hours ago,

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from what I understand, it's
going to start tomorrow at 9am.

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Eastern. And that's 6am. My time
here in California. Now I set up

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a page on the black vault.com.
If you are watching this on

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YouTube, right now, you can go
ahead and look at the link

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below, I may throw this out on
the audio stream as well, the

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podcast version of the black
vault, just to make sure

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everybody is is updated on this
because it is a huge

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development. So if you're
listening to an audio version of

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this, just go to www dot the
black vault.com. And that will

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show you one of the most recent
pages for watching the hearing

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live. Now I set up my own page
for this for this reason, they

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are streaming it on YouTube
through the congressional

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committees webpage. However, if
the stream breaks for any

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reason, I'm planning ahead that
that page will be updated in

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essentially real time by me,
I'll be sitting here waiting to

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update it. Just refresh it. That
way, you don't have to worry

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about trying to figure out where
the stream might be or what's

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going on. I will try and keep
all of that updated for you. And

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on the page, including maybe
some other videos as well, or

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some surprises. I will as long
as nothing big happens in the

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sense technologically speaking
on my end, likely will be live

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streaming shortly after the the
hearing itself, and hopefully

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opening up the phone lines and
stuff like that and having some

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fun. So that's why that page is
there. So again, go to www dot

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the black vault.com. And it will
shoot you right to it now.

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Question is, what are we
supposed to expect? And I'll be

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honest with you, I get that
asked a lot here in the last

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week since the story broke? And
I don't know, I'm not going to

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pretend to have any answer for
you here on this one. But happy

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to just kind of put some
thoughts out there out there.

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Initially, when I first heard
about it, I was pretty excited

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about the idea of this hearing.
But in the same respect

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realistic, as I said earlier.
And the reason why I said

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realistic is we have to
understand what exactly we are

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dealing with. And beyond any
shadow of a doubt we know that

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the UAP topic, what is going on
right now is not only of great

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interest, but also on top of
that highly classified. There is

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a lot of secrecy around this.
And I know a lot of people want

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to say that that secrecy is
lessening, I'm here to tell you

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that from my experience and
vantage point, through the

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Freedom of Information Act and
legal ways to access this

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information. It has strengthened
and it is not lessening. Now we

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are hearing about it more. And
that's fantastic. But that's

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where I say we have to be
realistic because that secrecy

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is still there. And when I talk
about the secrecy, especially

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since late last year, I
referenced something that is

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called the security
classification guide on UAP.

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Essentially, what this is, is
any particular topic has to have

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proper authorization for it to
be classified, meaning they

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can't write a document and go,
I'll call this top secret.

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Rather there are procedures and
manuals on how to define secrecy

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levels, why they have the
secrecy, what channels they go

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to, whose authority is it under,
so on and so forth. And I just

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kind of a gut feeling two years
ago, whatever it was, I felt

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that with all of this talk, that
there would be a guide on UAP.

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It was later than revealed in
the media that it likely existed

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but it never got released. I got
it through FOIA and it was very

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telling on how secretive UAP
information is. Now why do I

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bring this up? Well,
interestingly, the man who

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approved it, let me pull up the
screen here. I tweeted this out

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last week for

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of you who follow me on social
media, the man who approved it,

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this man here is Scott Bray. He
is the director of Naval

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Intelligence activity. And he
will be the one that is

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testifying one of two people
testifying at the hearing

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tomorrow. Now, he's the one that
approved this guide. So what I

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just went over with the security
classification guide, here is

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that actual cover page, and
there was a lot in this manual

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that is completely classified,
and that they will not release,

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I was able to get a heavily
redacted version out. But sadly,

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it really tells you very little,
I invite you to look at that.

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It's in the show notes on the
podcast version, or here on

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YouTube. Just go ahead and look
below and you will see a link

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directly to that security
classification guide. So that's

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the guy that he's going to be on
Capitol Hill tomorrow.

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Testifying. Here is the
signature page as proof of what

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I'm talking about. He approved
that document. I do believe I

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know who these names are, well,
not the reviewer, I take that

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back, but prepared by likely
through Oh, and I, but still

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trying to essentially work on
that. And we'll see if that ever

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comes to light. So we have some
guesses on who prepared it. But

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rather the approval is the man
who is testifying tomorrow. So

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what does that mean? In my
opinion, the man who says we

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should have the level of secrecy
around UAP that we do is going

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to be the one answering
questions in a public hearing.

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And I think with that fact, we
have to understand that he will

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do everything and anything in
his power to keep it as general

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and vague as he can. And the
reason why I say that is he

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doesn't want to declassify this
material. Obviously, he approves

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and supports the secrecy
surrounding it. So as vague and

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as general as they can keep it.
That is what they are going to

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do. Now Ronald Moultrie, who is
the Undersecretary of Defense

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for intelligence, he is going to
be testifying as well. And

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obviously, he's in a high enough
position where secrecy just

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comes along with the job. But
Bray is the one that that

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approved that secrecy, and I
think that he will try and

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maintain it. I think they're
going to surround obviously, the

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incursions on military
installations. And they will

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probably use that T word that
not many people like threat.

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Many, many times, drones may
come up. Or they will kind of

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generalize everything. And I
hope Congress pushes back if

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they do. And the reason is, is
because out of the 144 cases,

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that we know that they
investigated through the report

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released last year to the
public, and echoed in the

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classified version that I got
partially released earlier this

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year. Out of those 144 UAP
cases, they could only identify

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one and that was a deflating
balloon. So we can argue drones

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or adversarial technology or
even classified technology. And

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I'm taking a jab at some of the
things that I've said myself

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over the last couple of years.
And I still stand by it, by the

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way. But even classified
technology, according to them,

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could not peg a single case, to
any of those definitions. So if

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you start touting that in a
public hearing, and if Congress

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has done their homework, they
need to push back and say, Wait

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a minute, you guys are touting
these likely theories yet you

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could not peg a single case,
other than that one deflating

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balloon as any of them. And so
they're going to be put a little

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bit in a bind at that point,
meaning the witnesses Scott Bray

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and, and Moultrie that they're
going to have to respond to that

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if Congress decides to push the
issue. But again, I think

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they're going to stick very
broadly speaking, and generally

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speaking, now, if pushed, if the
committee does, what they should

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do, and really push these
issues, that I think what we're

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going to hear a lot of is, I can
speak to that more in a

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classified setting, or in the
closed session. Now, I'm one of

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those geeks that actually likes
to watch these hearings. And

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when you know that there was
going to be a classified

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session, following a public
hearing, then you hear that

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phrasing a lot. And I fear that
if the committee does start to

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push, they will start hearing
that now. How do committees

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react when they hear that and to
be honest with you, they

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essentially accept it. We will
see if anybody doesn't want to

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accept the shielding of the
general public from this

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information that may encroach
into classified arenas. We'll

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see how much they they will
Push. I don't know, generally

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they don't I mean, this is kind
of a bipartisan, nonpartisan, I

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should say issue, meaning no
real one side of the aisle is

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pushing it more than the other.
So there's not really a vendetta

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from let's say, the right side
of the aisle or the left side of

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the aisle where Republicans will
maybe bash the witnesses or

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Democrats will bash the
witnesses versus the other side,

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as you do and other types of
more partisan debates. So this

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could just be universally
accepted, that it stays general

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stays broad, the public, here's
kind of what we did last year

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with very broad stroke comments,
I'll be at interesting

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nonetheless, and very, very
important. That's the realistic

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way to approach this, that
they're probably not going to

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just bow down and go, Okay,
Congress, we admit it's extra

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terrestrial. And I think some
people secretly have that and

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even openly have that desire,
that we are paving the way here

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for some type of disclosure,
quite the opposite. They will

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keep that in a classified arena.
And we'll see how that committee

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approaches it and accepts it.
And in many cases, they just do,

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because they're not dodging the
question. They're just putting

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it into a closed session. And a
classified setting, which we

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know on the schedule follows the
public hearing. So we already

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know that's there. That's not
me, just kind of making that up

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that that is confirmed that they
have a closed session after the

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public hearing. So I think
they're going to utilize that

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they'll keep it behind closed
doors. And Congress just doesn't

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have the open authority to once
they hear something in a

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classified setting, come out to
the come out to the microphones

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and stand in front of the
cameras and go, This is what we

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heard. I mean, certainly they
sometimes talk about a generally

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speaking, and maybe we'll get
some gems from that. But they

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don't violate security oaths and
clearances and classified

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information themselves. So this
may stay locked up primarily.

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And and I don't fear that per
se, I expect that. And I don't

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think that we should just go oh,
this is a waste of time. Because

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even though we have to deal with
that part in a realistic sense,

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we also have to accept the
triumph, that after decades of

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secrecy and clear representation
by irrefutable evidence of a

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cover up, Congress is finally
looking at this going, Okay,

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let's get some people in here,
let's start asking questions.

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And one of those questions is
likely going to be how are you

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guys handling it. And although a
lot of that information, if

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you've paid attention is kind of
public right now. Hopefully,

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they'll give a glimpse at to
exactly the extent that they're

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going to exactly who they may be
talking to. Will they have any

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visuals or any you know, show
and tell type, I highly doubt

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it. I could be pleasantly
surprised. But I doubt it. I

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think, again, they will keep it
generally speaking, but only

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time will tell. So I look
forward to watching all of this

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with you guys, and hopefully
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That way more people can keep
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yourself. This is John
Greenewald Jr signing off. And

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we'll see after those hearings