I was reminded of this legislation included in this year’s NDAA, separate from the UAP Disclosure Act, in a recent article on the Hill by former intel analyst Marik Von Rennenkampff.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4646417-top-senators-believe-the-us-secretly-recovered-ufos/
The article itself is fantastic and it details some of the high profile senators who all believe the US has recovered exotic craft of non human origin.
I want to focus on a piece of legislation he mentions because I think this largely flew under the radar in the shadow of the UAP disclosure act or the Schumer amendment.
It is a very short piece of legislation but very powerful. https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ31/PLAW-118publ31.pdf#page=487
SEC. 1687. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN UNREPORTED PROGRAMS
LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or expended in support of any activities involving unidentified anomalous phenomena protected under any form of special access or restricted access limitations unless the Secretary of Defense has provided the details of the activity to the appropriate congressional committees and congressional leadership, including for any activities described in a report released by the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office in fiscal year 2024.
(b) LIMITATION REGARDING INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT independent research and development funding relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena shall not be allowable as indirect expenses for purposes of contracts covered by such instruction, unless such material and information is made available to the appropriate congressional committees and congressional leadership.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: (1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means— (A) the congressional defense committees; and (B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. (2) The term ‘‘congressional leadership’’ means— (A) the majority leader of the Senate; (B) the minority leader of the Senate; (C) the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and (D) the minority leader of the House of Representatives. (3) The term ‘‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’’ has the meaning given such term in section 1683(n)of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373(n)), as amended by section 6802(a) of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117–263).
So this piece of legislation basically says if you are running any program that has to do with UFOs the secretary of defense must inform the intel committees in both house and Senate and the rest of congressional leadership. The leadership and those committees must be read in on these programs so that we can reestablish proper congressional oversight.
If you don’t read these members of congress well then the funding to your program gets cut. You might be asking how they know what funding goes where. David Grusch handed all of that information over to those committees years ago, they likely know which programs to cut funding to because they’ve been having whistleblowers provide this information over the last several years. The Department of Justice has been investigating not only David Grusch’s claims of these programs, but likely also other whistleblowers’ claims as well.
This is huge. Defense contractors aren’t going to be happy when their contracts are revoked because their government handlers didn’t disclose the true nature of the programs they are running. They’re going to get cut off if they don’t comply with this new mandate.
We the public are still in the dark and unaware of the details the investigations going on behind the scenes have revealed thus far. Also, what is the actual enforcement mechanism here? I don’t see a date by which things must be disclosed, have they already begun reading in congressional leadership because this is already in law?
Remember, this is separate from the Schumer legislation which had a date of October 18th by which all UAP realted information must be turned over the national archives so perhaps the gang of 8 has already begun being read into these programs by now and if so that’s monumental.
Yet another huge piece of news not getting picked up by the media.
I discuss this legislation, the UAP investigation efforts in Canada, the downfall of AARO/Kirkpatrick, and Karl Nell at SALT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7iMeCrYec
Do you think this law will actually have an impact and is the gang of 8 being read in or do you think somehow the DOD will just ignore the threat of cut funding?
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