Date: 21 Oct 96 21:19:01 EDT
From: "Steven M. Greer M.D." 103275.1472@CompuServe.COM
To: Shari Adamiak 102542.3573@CompuServe.COM
Subject: Validity of National Security Oaths re:UFOs
The below is all well and good Dr. Greer, but you are not the one
with a gun at your head as we are. Even if the Senate and Congress
gives us an Ok on the security act, we are still at risk. You will not
get those with a DEEP cover to break loose at the risk of their lives.
Think well before you ask them to jeopardize their family and
themselves for a self serving purpose. Some will feel it is better to
stay alive and try and get provable information out as they can.
Col. S. Wilson, CAF, USAF/ret
FYI and distribution as you see fit.
Steven M. Greer M.D.
Director of CSETITHS
RELATED TO THE UFO/EXTRATERRESTRIAL SUBJECT
copyright 1996 Steven M. Greer M.D.
A number of first hand military, intelligence and government-
associated witnesses to covert projects dealing with UFOs and
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) have been identified by CSETI's
Project Starlight effort. Over the past three years, we have located
several dozen such potential witnesses as part of a comprehensive
strategy to collect adequate evidence for a global, definitive
disclosure on this subject. The story which these important government
witnesses can tell will make a credible, undeniable case for the reality
of UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial life forms in proximity to
the earth.
One of the persistent obstacles to this testimony coming out into
the public arena has been the issue of so-called national security
oaths and restrictions placed on these witnesses. Some feel that
they are not free to speak unless 'released' from these national
security oaths and restrictions, and so we have been working to
encourage Congress and the White House to take actions which
would remove these restrictions.
In the summer of 1995, a number of these witnesses gathered at a
witnesses summit, and we all signed a letter to President Clinton
asking him to take actions leading to the release of these
restrictions. While receipt of this letter was acknowledged by a
special assistant to the President, we still await specific action from
the executive branch of the US government.
With this said, it is important to visit the question of whether or not
such national security oaths and restrictions are themselves legally
valid.
We have compelling witness testimony that the operations dealing
with this subject currently exist, and have existed for several
decades, outside of normal governmental projects. Members of the
Project Starlight Team have met with very senior members of the
Administration, Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA and
other relevant government agency operatives. The picture which
emerges from these discussions is that of an operation dealing with UFOs
which is functioning outside of the normal channels of government, as it
is usually considered. Indeed, we have found that the most senior levels
of the executive branch, Congress, the military etc. are totally out of
the loop on this extraordinary matter.
This then brings up the sobering question of who is in the loop,
and under what authorization are such projects operating? It is our
assessment that for the large part, these operations do not fall under
any constitutionally sanctioned avenues of authorization, and as such
are, perforce, illegal.
Aside from the lack of oversight and authorization from the
executive branch and Congress, these operations have, from time
to time, engaged in deceptive practices which have frustrated the
organs of constitutionally legal inquiries and democratic processes. Any
such operation which behaves in this fashion unilaterally removes itself
from the inherent legality and protection which exists for projects
which are consonant with constitutional law.
This being the case (we are eager - nay, desperate- for someone to
prove otherwise...) all of the so-called 'national security oaths' and
other 'restrictions' placed on military, intelligence and government
contract workers are null and void. That is, they appear to have no
legal validity since the operations for which they were obtained are
themselves illegal. In a constitutional democracy, it is a basic
requirement of law that such operations be constitutionally legal, and
if they are not, then all that flows from them - including such 'oaths'-
are illegal and therefore non-binding. IF these operations are legal,
nobody in the Congress, executive branch or senior military with whom
we have spoken knows of it. The production of a single current executive
order or congressional directive authorizing these projects, which can
be independently verified, would convince us otherwise.
More than one covert contact has told us that, indeed, any such
witnesses can and should speak out at the right time and place
since no legal entity would - or legally could - do anything about
it. We agree.
Beyond this, it is the legal, moral and patriotic duty of such
witnesses to come together, and at the highest, best and most
credible venue possible, speak out in unison regarding the truth on this
matter. Granted, if only one or two such persons come forward, the
case will be weak, and the risk will be unacceptable. But if ten, twenty
or more such witnesses come together, and united, resolve to share their
information and experiences on this subject, then a definitive case will
be made , and a great service to the world and their country will be
fulfilled.
The return of this matter to the legal channels of government and
the deliberation of the people is one of the great unfulfilled tasks of
the post cold war era. Over half a decade has elapsed since the end of
the cold war, and there can no longer be a justification (if there ever
was) for this type of extraordinary secrecy and covert agenda. Both
national and world security requires that this matter be returned to the
world community as soon as possible.
We recommend that men and women of vision, courage and
dedication join with us in fulfilling this task. Far from being a legal
violation of 'security oaths', the public testimony by such witnesses is
a highly moral and legal act. Further, is it not true that the
continuation of this secrecy itself is illegal and immoral, given the
inherent unconstitutionality of such programs? Credible witnesses,
joining together and providing their testimony in a united strategy can
return this subject to legal oversight and control, and thereby enable
the people of our country and of the world to begin the public
deliberations which should have occurred 50 years ago.
21 October 1996
Steven M. Greer M.D.
Director of CSETI
PO Box 15401 Asheville NC 28813
704-274-5671; fax:704-274-6766;
email: 103275.1472@CompuServe.COM
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