John Greenewald: That's right everybody. As always, thank you
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mentioned, this is kind of a smaller story. And shorter one,
but one that I thought was important enough to bring to you
guys, this is all about something that I talked briefly
about in a previous video. I didn't dedicate the whole video
to it. But it was something that was mentioned if you picked up
on it. It was all about a NASA classified briefing on UAPs.
This FOIA request revealed that there was actually a video of
this briefing, which that's rare, because although you
likely do have video presentations that are
classified that are available, they opened gave me essentially
irrefutable confirmation that this video existed. Now, that
might not sound like a big deal. But when it comes to the FOIA
world, that irrefutable proof that documentation can get
attached to a subsequent FOIA request, a new case is filed.
And that's used essentially as evidence, which is exactly the
case here. This actually goes back to October 1 2020. I
discovered these documents in a FOIA case in the beginning of
2022. I'll go over the second person that it's addressed to
but his name was Randy Cruz. Now this email again, October
1 2020. Mike was looking forward to the classified version of
this brief. Is it possible to get the slide deck sent to me
this morning so I can review it with Jim. Now the mic is Mike
gold. Now this was the follow up to Randy's email. And this was
kind of important in a couple of different ways. Let me read it
to your first also dated October one 2020. Hey, Randy, I'm sorry
that we couldn't get scheduled to work with the head of the UAP
Task Force Jay Stratton for today. He is wrapped up in
meetings at the Pentagon. Margaret slash Jolene. Do we
have the slide deck that Jay used when we got the brief
previously, Jay says there is a video version of the brief that
is available on sipper net or Jay wicks. Sharif has J's email.
He is not available by phone today and can reach out to him.
Thanks, Mike. Now, there's two big things that came from this,
this email. This is why you got to read everything really
carefully, because you can get 150 pages. And it's just all
boring all essentially administration stuff and snoozy
material. And then bingo, you come across this, the two things
are this, the head of the UAP Task Force, Jay Stratton. Now as
I'm doing this video right now, we know that that's not a
surprise, in the beginning of 2022. This was one of the first
times that we had official documentation to acknowledge it.
I don't recall the exact date that I think politico was the
one that later had published his name, obviously, he came out
came out with an interview. So again, that doesn't sound like a
big deal. But at the time, this was the first time that placed
Jay Stratton as the head of the UAP Task Force. I had discovered
Jay Stratton's name back in like 2019 and realized that when I
had broken that story, where they commented on the gimbal, go
fast and FLIR videos, and said that they were deemed as
unidentified aerial phenomena. That was a statement given by
Joseph grad Usher from the the press office. But it was
actually Jay Stratton that I found out in a later FOIA
request that wrote all of that. So I knew that he was somebody
to watch and I've been chasing documents on him since 2019 or
so and knew that he was someone to watch and watched him and it
took a couple of years for it to finally be revealed that he was
the head of that task force and was heavily involved in all
this. So here he is, obviously leading a briefing, telling NASA
Hey, There's a video recording of this. So that was something
that was very important about this this one email. So what I
did was I took that filed a FOIA request, when after the video,
it took up until this week to get a response. And they denied
the whole thing. Specifically, I requested this all releasable
portions of the classified briefing video created by Jay
Stratton that was circulated to NASA and likely other agencies
in October of 2020. Per NASA FOIA requests case number, I
discovered that a video does exist and should be responsive
to this request. For reference, I'm attaching that email to this
request. So that's what I'm talking about, you can use that
information as evidence. Here was their response. The UAV, the
UAP Task Force has informed this office that the video you're
requesting is exempt from release under FOIA exemption
five US Code, Section Five, five to be one, which protects
national security information concerning the National Defense
or foreign policy from disclosure, provided that it has
been properly classified in accordance with substantive,
substantive and procedural requirements of executive order
13526. And in essence, it's all classified. It's national
security information. They don't want to give it to us. I have
appealed this already. I filed that appeal yesterday, just
simply because here we are. Approximately three years later,
information is coming out from the US government. I'll be at
very, very slowly, but this recent UAP hearing with new
videos, I feel that there should be something within this
classified briefing to be released. Now, for those who
aren't aware of either my background or what has been
achieved with the FOIA in the past, classified briefings,
classified videos can absolutely be released through FOIA. Okay,
100%, full stop. So some people doubt that Well, John, it's
classified, of course are going to deny it, you got to get out
of that mindset. There are releasable portions of
classified documents, photos, and videos. So they are able to
go and blur the sensitive areas, and release the rest or fully
remove and omit certain sections of a video. The National
Reconnaissance Office is a prime example where you can get
classified videos or even briefing material. And what they
do is they literally make the screen black, and pull the audio
all together and literally redact a video. So all of that
is very doable. That's what they do. That's how they do it.
There's, there's millions of examples over the decades of
them doing just that. So I believe that there is some
releasable portion of this. So I filed the appeal yesterday, and
I'm fighting it where we ended up, I really don't know. But why
I want to bring these stories to you guys, is essentially
solidifying where we're at. And as I recently talked about on
this channel, and on this podcast with Dan Warren, that
you're essentially creating a timeline, a timeline that
documents every single step, where we are, what the state of
everything is, and hopefully, you know, in the years to come,
we can, we can call back on that and see where we're at. But in
the same respect, I think these stories are important because of
all the different people that telling you that are telling you
that we're on some path to disclosure. And for me, it's
quite the opposite. And that's why the stories are important
because people can talk all day long. They can go on the media,
go on their media appearances, they can go on their podcasts,
even go on their YouTube channels, post Twitter, videos,
whatever, and hype it all up and say two big things are come I
just saw another video, right before I recorded this, of
somebody saying months from now. Things are coming out. You won't
believe it. Well, I don't believe it to be blatantly
honest with you because we're not on that path. If there's a
whistleblower that's coming out, fantastic come out why wait? The
I believe the channel name is the good trouble show recently
did an interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. And in that
interview, part of it was incredibly interesting to me
simply because it was being stressed about this
whistleblower protection, that if people are fearing reprisal
from NDAs, or whatever, she's saying, We'll protect you. And
she even went too far. And I'm paraphrasing, but she went as
too far to say, Hey, if you don't feel the language is there
to protect you? Let me know and we'll get that language into the
bill to ensure your protection That, to me was an amazing
revelation from that interview. The rest was a little, you know,
standard and what we've heard 1000 times over, but kudos to
that channel for, for bringing that forward. But that being
said, that whistleblower part and her really being openly
honest saying will protect you, if you've got information.
Let's, you know, let's figure out if you're not protected,
why, and we'll we'll fix it. That to me was was mind blowing.
So all those people that are making these promises, and, you
know, talking about their anonymous sources and off, I can
only tell you everything I know, well, fine. I Kirsten Gillibrand
is ready for you, the United States Senate is ready for you.
So, so go out there and you know, do do your thing, you
know, spill those beans, blow that whistle, do whatever you
need to do, because the protection is there. If that
doesn't happen, then you know, it's time to stop believing all
those voices, because it's getting really tiresome, because
the reality is what I just showed you guys, the reality is
the fact that no, they are not being more transparent, it is
the opposite. The UAP hearing said that they wanted to do some
forward facing website, where they can unclassified
information and release it to you. Some, we're excited about
that. First of all, we'll see if it ever happens. Second of all,
I'm not happy about that at all, simply because you know, they
will cherry pick to death, the things that they put out to you
that you will just have to trust that they are putting some type
of valuable information out there. The reality is, they will
likely pick the bottom 5% of the trash that they get, and
sometimes literal sense. If it's, you know, airborne clutter
or plastic bag or whatever, that that's what they're going to put
out there. And society will just go wow, this is great. They're
releasing UFO videos, no, I will ramp up the FOIA request in
cases at that point. Because that means they will literally
cherry pick what they put out to you. If they had any desire for
transparency, they would have gotten it done by now. This was
done late last year that they submitted a draft. So I'm not
placing blame on anybody but the Department of Defense as a
whole. Because they say one thing, and they they're not
doing it. And there's been more than enough time for them to
accomplish that. So that's where we're at. That's why I think
that the stories are important. Those whistleblowers are out
there. I said it recently, and it got posted on on Twitter and
social media as well put up or shut up. Now's the time, Senator
Gillibrand is ready to protect all of those people. So if
you've got knowledge, don't go to a YouTube or don't even go to
me, I'm not asking for that information. I don't want it. I
want you to go and do your thing. If you are legitimate,
and go to the Senate, and go make this right. But until then,
this is what we've got. That's why these stories are important.
And that's why even though sometimes, I feel like a broken
record bringing very similar stories to you. This is
classified this as classified, it's still important to deal
with nonetheless. So there you go. Again, if you're listening
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thank you so much for listening and or watching. This is John
Greenewald, Jr signing off, and we'll see you next time.