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Newer News: February 2019

January 2019

• Secret Pentagon projects reveal gov't looked into UFOs, wormholes and other bizarre anomalies by Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, January 23. "Newly declassified documents from the Pentagon reveal the Department of Defense funded projects that investigated UFOs, wormholes, alternate dimensions and a host of other subjects that are often the topics of conspiracy theorists."
• Remarks of DNI Dan Coats on the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy, January 22. "We will build public understanding about our mission. We will be open about how we help protect the nation, and whenever possible, we will share with the public the insight we offer to policymakers. Through transparency we will strengthen America's faith that the Intelligence Community seeks the truth, and speaks the truth."
• The Government's Secret UFO Program Funded Research on Wormholes and Extra Dimensions by Sarah Emerson, Motherboard, January 17. "Documents released by the Department of Defense reveal some of what its infamous Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was working on."
• Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending? by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, January 16. "The new guidance permits government agencies to 'modify' public financial statements and move expenditures from one line item to another. It also expressly allows federal agencies to refrain from telling taxpayers if and when public financial statements have been altered."
• Read the Scientific American article the government deemed too dangerous to publish by Robert Hovden, MuckRock, January 9. "The sordid history of the once-banned article by Hans Bethe, deemed so sensitive that the entire print run was burned, has been re-earthed through FOIA."
• Interior's Proposed FOIA Limits May Be Illegal, Watchdogs Say by Stephen Lee and Rebecca Kern, Bloomberg News, January 4. "Department wants to sidestep 'burdensome' Freedom of Information Act requests."

Older News: December 2018

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