The reporters who sit in the West Wing press briefing room week in and week out have more access to the ruling administration of the United States than all the world’s other reporters combined.  They and their counterparts covering the Departments of State and Defense have an enormous responsibility to protect the public’s vested interests in good governance and right policy.  Failure to stand for the public’s right to know brings down the nation, the people and the press – together. 

When other nations issued confirmatory reports such the French COMETA study in 2000, released thousands of classified files into the public domain, cooperated with indigenous UFO research organizations, the U. S. administrations did nothing and the White House press corps was silent.

Most unsettling of all, a billionaire friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Laurance Rockefeller, made a three-year effort (1993-1996) to convince President Clinton to release all UFO documents in government files, grant amnesty to government personnel who came forward with information and end the truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.   Thirteen years after the end of that failed initiative no member of the White House press corps has ever posed a single question about that initiative to any of the powerful political figures who knew about it and/or were involved – Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Leon Panetta, Albert Gore, Jr., Bill Richardson, Dr. John Gibbons, and others. 

Respectfully,
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director