Post by auntym on Jul 22, 2015 12:31:40 GMT -6
www.newrepublic.com/article/122310/extraterrestrial-vote
July 16, 2015
The Extraterrestrial Vote
On Pluto, aliens, John Podesta's X-Files obsession, and the 2016 election
By Rebecca Leber / www.newrepublic.com/authors/rebecca-leber
NASA's nine-year-old New Horizons mission made history on Tuesday by giving Earth its first close glimpse at the on-again, off-again ninth planet, Pluto. In response, President Barack Obama tweeted:
President Obama
✔
@potus
Pluto just had its first visitor! Thanks @nasa - it's a great day for discovery and American leadership. pic.twitter.com/FfztBSMbK0
John Podesta
✔
@johnpodesta
.@potus: how can you be sure this was Pluto's first visitor? #justasking …
Podesta is a well-documented science fiction enthusiast who's regularly riffed on the X-Files tagline, “The truth is out there.”
In 2002, Podesta told reporters at the National Press Club that the U.S. government should “declassify records that are more than 25 years old.” He was, of course, discussing UFOs. “It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
Podesta also wrote the foreward for Leslie Kean’s 2010 book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record. In it, Podesta made the same case for disclosure. “It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. The American people—and people around the world—want to know, and they can handle the truth.”
Leaving his White House post in February, Podesta again fueled Area 51 and Roswell conspiracy theories by tweeting that his "biggest failure of 2014" was "not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files."
CONTINUE READING: www.newrepublic.com/article/122310/extraterrestrial-vote
July 16, 2015
The Extraterrestrial Vote
On Pluto, aliens, John Podesta's X-Files obsession, and the 2016 election
By Rebecca Leber / www.newrepublic.com/authors/rebecca-leber
NASA's nine-year-old New Horizons mission made history on Tuesday by giving Earth its first close glimpse at the on-again, off-again ninth planet, Pluto. In response, President Barack Obama tweeted:
President Obama
✔
@potus
Pluto just had its first visitor! Thanks @nasa - it's a great day for discovery and American leadership. pic.twitter.com/FfztBSMbK0
John Podesta
✔
@johnpodesta
.@potus: how can you be sure this was Pluto's first visitor? #justasking …
Podesta is a well-documented science fiction enthusiast who's regularly riffed on the X-Files tagline, “The truth is out there.”
In 2002, Podesta told reporters at the National Press Club that the U.S. government should “declassify records that are more than 25 years old.” He was, of course, discussing UFOs. “It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” he said. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
Podesta also wrote the foreward for Leslie Kean’s 2010 book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record. In it, Podesta made the same case for disclosure. “It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there. The American people—and people around the world—want to know, and they can handle the truth.”
Leaving his White House post in February, Podesta again fueled Area 51 and Roswell conspiracy theories by tweeting that his "biggest failure of 2014" was "not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files."
CONTINUE READING: www.newrepublic.com/article/122310/extraterrestrial-vote