John Podesta on UFOs: "I worked a lot with Senator Reid on that question.” Thanks to Grant Cameron, Nikole Sakach and “Evan” for this lead. On July 8, 2020, hosts of The Climate Pod – brothers Brock Benefiel and Ty Benefiel - released an interview with John Podesta. Podesta served as the former White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton (1998-2001) and he is the founder of the Center for American Progress. In 2008, he served as co-chair of President Obama’s transition team, and chaired Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president in 2016. His serious interest in UFOs is well known and established. Podesta wrote a foreword to Leslie Kean’s 2010 classic “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record”. There he proposed mutual cooperation of government, scientists and aviation experts on the UFO problem. He concludes the foreword with his famous phrase that the American people can handle the truth. Near the end of The Climate Pod, Brock Benefiel asked Podesta on his views about “aliens”. Podesta focused his reply towards released information on the government UFO program. He also emphasized that he "worked a lot with Senator Harry Reid on the issue". The reference is important since we know that Senator Reid was the original initiator of the broader AAWSAP program. The history of the government UFO research through AAWSAP and AATIP programs was also described by the former AATIP director Luis Elizondo during the July 27, 2008 lecture. Here is the transcript of the relevant Podesta comments from The Climate Pod podcast. THE CLIMATE POD 2020-07-08 - Interview with John Podesta SOURCES [Audio Version] 2020-07-08 - The Climate Pod: Interview with John Podesta 38:06 minute mark https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ro41QzLl0vKCCnrljVZAV [Video Version] 2020-07-12 - The Climate Pod: Interview with John Podesta 30:44 minute mark https://youtu.be/AOCCGMsWDDI?t=1844 Brock and Ty Benefiel - hosts of The Climate Pod --- Start of the Transcript --- BROCK BENEFIEL: Ty and I love talking about aliens. We ask you one question about aliens before we go? JOHN PODESTA: Sure. BROCK BENEFIEL: Fantastic. So in 2016 you told Kara Swisher and Ezra Klein; nothing that you had seen in government with your security clearance had changed, your attitudes towards whether or not aliens have visited Earth. Ty and have been impacted greatly, but what we seen that has been declassified. Has that impacted your thoughts at all? JOHN PODESTA: Well, you know, I'm, I was, I worked a lot with Senator Reid on that question and I was very glad that Senator Reid with an assist from Senator Inouye got at least an office in the Pentagon that began to take this seriously and put out video that they were capturing real time. And I think - if you look and see what the Navy put out recently - then at least we're making a little bit of progress on the question of whether you're risking your career to say let the American people know what the government knows. You know, when I started in on this it, you know, people really did think you were a nut, and I had senator, congressman say to me - I'd like to get involved with this but, I know I'm just gonna get know made fun of, destroyed in social media etc. But you go for it, keep pushing it. BROCK BENEFIEL: Yeah. JOHN PODESTA: And I think a lot of people really are interested in this topic. And I think what has already occurred now with these somewhat more recent encounters and releases of unidentified aerial phenomena, had just whetted the appetite to go back into the old files and to go forward with when we have those kind of encounters to make sure that the public knows about them. BROCK BENEFIEL: You just made our week. Fantastic. --- End of the Transcript --- Thanks to Grant Cameron, Nikole Sakach and “Evan” for this lead. Giuliano Marinkovic July 31, 2020 https://omnitalkradio.weebly.com/pentagon-ufo-study-media.html
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