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News of John Podesta's appointment as counselor to US President Barack Obama has triggered speculation that some of the top secret UFO files may be released soon.
Podesta,
64, was a White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton and has been
Obama's outside advisor since the 2008 presidential election. He also
advised former Secretary-of-State Hillary Clinton during her last year
in office.
Podesta
is the founder and chair of the Center for Equitable Growth Center
think-tank created this fall and chair of the Center for American
Progress he founded a decade ago.
He
will now formally join the White House inner circle for a year as Obama
struggles to salvage his unexpectedly difficult second term. Apart from
climate change and executive issues, Podesta will also handle Obama's
troubled healthcare program.
There
is one further fact you might not know about him. Podesta repeatedly
urged the US government to declassify at least some 25 year old UFO
files which could give scientists a clue as to the real nature of a few
unexplained airborne signtings. In 2010, he wrote a foreword to Leslie
Kean's "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the
Record".
"I'm
skeptical about many things, including the notion that government
always knows best, and that the people can't be trusted with the truth.
The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue.
Presenting the facts, the book includes statements from only the most
credible sources, those in a position to know, about a fascinating
phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined," Podesta wrote.
Obama,
whose approval rating fell 5% in October to below 50%, may well
consider releasing UFO files as a nice way to propp up his sagging
popularity.
Voice of Russia, All Alabama, Huffington Post
