Dan Farah
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 14 May
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They want to hide behind FOIA.
But more importantly, if you recover a piece of exotic technology and you want to try to reverse engineer it or fully understand it,
um there's just not a room for those engineers sitting in an office at you know the dod um and so you know he explained how you know you you you give that technology to a defense contractor and then and then as you said um over the years they keep working at it they stay constant the government overseer you know retires or dies or you know changes and then the next guy knows a little bit about the program but
doesn't know everything.
And then the guy after that, um, doesn't even know the program exists, but the, the defense contractors still chugging along.
And so you get to this point where, um, the defense contractors hold a lot of the cards.
And, um, at the same time though, there are still these career bureaucrats that, you know, are there throughout multiple administrations within the CIA, the air force and the department of energy that are very much involved in this.
And so, um,
Every one of my film that talked about this hidden program referred to as the legacy program, they all say that it has just been, it was immediately removed from congressional oversight when it started in the 40s.
And so the tug of war really is elected officials and their appointed officials like the Secretary of War and the Director of National Intelligence trying to wrestle this information
out of these career bureaucrats and the defense contractors.
And it's a complicated situation as the film shows.
It's not a black and white situation.
Yeah.
Which also leads to one of the other really important takeaways for me from my interviews and in the film, which is Rubio also expresses this really clearly, which is the concern that if we don't take this more seriously as a nation and make the –
make it known that this is a valid area of inquiry, that it's a real situation, right, and cause our scientific community and academia to want to take it serious, then we are likely going to lose this race to our adversaries because our adversaries don't need
the public to decide it's important.
They can just tell them it's important.
Like she can just take the smartest scientists in China and say, you're going to work on this.
Right.
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