Current Events > I think the best argument against the govt. knowing that Aliens visited Earth is

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that Donald Trump would have spilled the beans about it instantly. Has the man, even once, treated top classified documents with any level of security?

He'd definitely be singing and/or selling that intel if he knew anything.

You could argue that maybe "they" kept that info from him, but then you kind of get into "deep state" conspiracy territory.

The sheer volume of people who would have to be convinced to never say anything is always one of the best counters to conspiracy theories.

They never would of told him. You think Presidents have access to all government secrets? I think there are people high up in the CIA that know shit that only a handful of other people in the world know.

Maybe George Bush (Jr. And Sr.) were the last presidents that knew about aliens, since they were ex CIA/military.

Of course, it's all speculation.

Doubt they would have let him in on that.

There are plenty of things that the president would never get access to because it doesn't ultimately matter what your clearance level is if you can't make a good argument for why you would need to know the information that you're inquiring about. It easily could have been long decided that presidents don't need to know about aliens.

That being said, the idea that aliens have visited Earth, and only certain US government personnel know about it is stupid, in my opinion.

We know that the CIA never stopped him from seeing everything they had on aliens. Otherwise he would have whined about it.

brestugo posted...

He'd definitely be singing and/or selling that intel if he knew anything.

You could argue that maybe "they" kept that info from him, but then you kind of get into "deep state" conspiracy territory.

kelemvor posted...

They never would of told him. You think Presidents have access to all government secrets? I think there are people high up in the CIA that know shit that only a handful of other people in the world know.

Maybe George Bush (Jr. And Sr.) were the last presidents that knew about aliens, since they were ex CIA/military.

Of course, it's all speculation.

But then that really only leaves us with two possibilities (knowing that Trump can't keep a secret)

1. The government has no knowledge of alien life ever visiting Earth
2. Trump is, at least to some extent, correct about a "deep state" controlling world secrets and ruling from the shadows

s0nicfan posted...

The sheer volume of people who would have to be convinced to never say anything is always one of the best counters to conspiracy theories.

This. You see how whistle blowers pop up for "minor" things only involving smaller groups of people, now you're going to have a LOT of people involved for some serious massive shit. Don't make sense.

FL81 posted...

But then that really only leaves us with two possibilities (knowing that Trump can't keep a secret)

The government has no knowledge of alien life ever visiting Earth
Trump is, at least to some extent, correct about a "deep state" controlling world secrets and ruling from the shadows

It's actual a third thing. Neither you nor Trump understand how governments and laws work.

FL81 posted...

that Donald Trump would have spilled the beans about it instantly. Has the man, even once, treated top classified documents with any level of security?

Doesn't work as DoD actually kept alot hidden from him according to theit own officials.

Why would they tell him about what would been the biggest secret if true then?

I know that they did keep information away from him for different reasons.
If they got aliens files, they would keep them away as well.

brestugo posted...

You could argue that maybe "they" kept that info from him, but then you kind of get into "deep state" conspiracy territory.

Nope we already know they kept info from him.

Rial_Kai posted...

It's actual a third thing. Neither you nor Trump understand how governments and laws work.

so who do you think would win in a war between the Hollow Earth Lizardmen and the Ayy Lmao Aliens

assuming that the horrors from the ocean's depths are a neutral party to all of this

Foppe posted...

I know that they did keep information away from him for different reasons.
If they got aliens files, they would keep them away as well.

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