I mean, look, I've got documentation after documentation. I can pull some of it up right now on my phone and show folks. A lot of it is coming from, I think, what I said before, people who have specific agendas. They like creating consternation. And let's pull this up here. Okay, so here we go.
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Everybody knows who Harry Reid is. Harry Reid was the original sponsor for AASAP and AATIP. He was also the Senate Majority Leader, and he was the, if you will, the owner of AATIP. This is a letter from him, signed by him, dated April 26, 2021. With his letterhead and his signature, to whom it may concern, as United States Senate Majority Leader, I worked with Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and Democratic Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii to secure $22 million of funding for what would become known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, an unclassified but unpublicized investigatory effort dedicated to studying unidentified aerial phenomena.
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As one of the original sponsors of AATIP, I can state as a matter of record, Luis Elizondo's involvement and leadership role in this program. Mr. Elizondo is a former intelligence officer who spent his career working tirelessly in the shadows on sensitive national security matters, including investigating UAPs as the head of AATIP. He performed those duties admirably. Signed, Harry Reid. So that's just, you know, one of the many examples I have of documentation, copious amounts of documentation, establishing who I am.
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I've got other letters and memorandums, which I will not share right now publicly, but if I ever need to, I certainly will.
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And copious amounts of emails and other documentation from the Department of Defense itself, establishing, for the record, my role in AATIP. At this point, I think if people want to argue that, then, you know, you want to waste your time, be my guest, but we've kind of moved on from that argument.
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You know, there's people who even question, at one point, my military service, and question whether or not I worked in intelligence, or if I worked at USDI, or any of these other places I worked at. If I spend my time, you know, biting off these ankle biters, that is going to distract me from the bigger job that I have, and that is fighting for transparency and disclosure for the American people, and trying to ultimately get the government to do what it is supposed to do.
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And that disclosure shouldn't be coming from me, it should be coming from our government. And so that's what I'm trying to do, is work very hard to help our government figure out a way to have this conversation with the American people, a conversation that I think we're long overdue, a conversation that I think we deserve, a conversation that had been paid for, the results of which have been paid for by taxpayer money.
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