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Sen. Rounds on Schumer UAP amendment to NDAA: “not a lot of activity on right now"
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Sen. Rounds on Schumer UAP amendment to NDAA: “not a lot of activity on right now"

Ep. 198 — Sen. Mike Rounds (3-6-2024)
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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Senate Intelligence Committee

Ask a Pol asks:

“Are you working with Schumer and his team on amending your guys’ UAP amendment from NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] last year?”

Key Rounds:

“Not a lot of activity on right now,” Rounds tells Ask a Pol. “The reality is that we’ll have to work with the House to find out what their concerns are and we’ll have to address that.”

LISTEN: Laslo & Rounds

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Below find a ROUGH transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mike Rounds

Mike Rounds: “Hey, good morning!”

Matt Laslo: “Hey, are you working with Schumer and his team on amending your guys’ UAP amendment from NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] last year?”

MR: “We’re still — not a lot of activity on right now.”

ML: “Yeah?”

MR: “Doesn’t mean there’s no activity, but it’s nothing that we’re specifically going in and sitting down and changing language yet.”

ML: “Would you like to see changes though?”

MR: “Umm, the reality is that we’ll have to work with the House to find out what their concerns are and we’ll have to address them.”

ML: “Do you fully know those concerns or where they are coming from? Was it Armed Services Committee or was it from House Intel [Committee]?”

MR: “Well, that’s a really good question.”

ML: “Yeah?”

Laslo laughs.

MR: “I think there are some individuals that had some concerns — and actually some of their concerns with regard to privacy and confidentiality are valid — but we’ll do our best to work with them and get something done.”

ML: “It hasn’t quite percolated up yet?”

MR: “No, it has not.”

ML: “Appreciate ya.”

MR: “You’re not behind on anything yet.”

Laslo laughs.

ML: “Have a good one.”

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Bob's avatar

Hi Matt, it seems that on the same day Sen. Rounds was telling you that there was "not a lot of activity on right now" with the Schumer UAP amendment to NDAA, Tim Phillips, the acting director of the DoD’s UAP office (AARO) was giving a secretive press briefing to a few friendly journalists about ARRO's Historical Record Report (HR2) Volume I.

Check out Christopher Sharp's view on this: https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/end-game-the-pentagon-establishes-path-to-disaster-following-release-of-ufo-report

This report, mandated by Congress, is of such poor quality it could not even get the late Senator Harry Reid's home state correct !

There is no nice way to put this; While you were talking to a member of Congress, AARO was on the other side of town shitting on Congress.

By now I'm sure most of the Members who follow this subject are aware or at least their staffs are.

What is so nice about your style of reporting is that you are a busy bee. You get honey from the Members and they in turn get pollen carried by you.

So some things that might interest Members is that since this AARO report has come out people that follow UAP are up in arms.

* The journalist Ross Coulthart (who did the video interview of David Grusch) says: he has obtained the names and roles of members of some of AARO’s secret Advisory Committee They are the gatekeepers to this legacy program… People are so angry… they are now leaking.”

He also suggest that the ARRO report violates Executive Order 12333 made by Reagan in the 1980's which bans covert propaganda being used against the American public.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOB/comments/1ba2hcu/ross_coulthart_has_obtained_the_names_and_roles/

* Daniel Sheehan of the Pentagon Papers, the Karen Silkwood case, and 1986 Iran/Contra fame wrote this:

"I am taking the extraordinary step of informing the public and the media that I, personally, know that Dr. Kirkpatrick and his associates at AARO are consciously lying"

https://newparadigminstitute.org/2024/03/09/open-letter-from-daniel-sheehan-responding-to-dr-sean-kirkpatrick-and-aaro-report-to-congress/

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In my view it is the arrogance of the gatekeepers that has pushed them to the tipping point. Arrogance of holding control of THE biggest story in the world. Arrogance of being outside of any democratic control for so long. I think the ARRO report proves their arrogance toward Congress. They are giants the size of the planet and they are falling. They have reached their tipping point of no return.

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Matt Laslo's avatar

Hear that. On it.

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Daniel Miller's avatar

Seems a pretty sure bet then that legislators will be working on a new version of the UAPDA for the next NDAA

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Matt Laslo's avatar

Still fishing around there. brb

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