{"id":3505,"date":"2016-04-17T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2016-04-17T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T05:11:42","slug":"clinton-wants-get-bottom-alien-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/clinton-wants-get-bottom-alien-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton wants to \u201cget to the bottom\u201d of the alien conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Jamal Smith\r\nSports Editor<\/pre>\n
Are we alone in the universe? Are extraterrestrials visiting our planet? What may seem like script from a science fiction movie are actually serious questions posed by many Americans. Well, fear not, Hillary Clinton just announced that if elected president, she will \u201cget to the bottom\u201d of the alien conspiracy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no secret that the government keeps things from the American public, either to protect the national security of the nation, or because the people in charge believe that the American public can\u2019t handle the truth. However, recent comments made by Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and by Clinton herself, suggest that Clinton believes that the American public can indeed handle the truth.<\/p>\n
Posada, who heads Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign, was asked by CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on April 7 if Clinton would release information concerning Area 51 and UFOs if she were elected into office.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019ve talked to the secretary about, and what she\u2019s said now in public, is that if she\u2019s elected president, when she gets into office, she\u2019ll ask for as many records as the United States federal government has to be declassified, and I think that\u2019s a commitment that she intends to keep and that I intend to hold her to,\u201d answered Podesta.<\/p>\n
When Tapper asked Posada if he had personally seen UFO documents during his time serving as the White House Chief of Staff, Posada tip-toed around the question and responded by stating, \u201cPresident Clinton asked for some information about some of those things, and in particular, information about what is going on at Area 51. But I think that the U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what\u2019s going on with unidentified aerial phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinton has also recently commented on the issue, and given hope to conspiracy theorists. In an interview in late December with a New Hampshire reporter from the Conway Daily Sun, Clinton was asked about her husband\u2019s comments on national television where he said, \u201cIf we were visited [by aliens] someday, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n
She responded by stating, \u201cI think we may have been [visited already]. We don\u2019t know for sure.\u201d Clinton also pledged to \u201cget to the bottom of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, on March 24, Clinton appeared as a guest on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d Kimmel, who has asked both Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton questions pertaining to UFOs, asked Clinton if she would be more successful than her husband in attempting to find and release government documents concerning UFO\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to go into those files and, hopefully, make as much of that public as possible,\u201d said Clinton. \u201cIf there\u2019s nothing there, let\u2019s tell people there\u2019s nothing there. If there is something there, unless it\u2019s a treat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact the author at jsmith15@wou.edu or on Twitter @journalsportWOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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