John Podesta, Bill Richardson and UFOs

Following is from Stephen Bassett and the Paradigm Research
Group.Visit http://www.paradigmresearchgroup.org/to see all
of Bassett's webpages.

Bassett has a valid point. John Podesta and Presidential
contender Bill Richardson are powerful political
representatives who have both made public comments
questioning the need for government secrecy around the
ET issue.

Bassett's point is, that in a political season where personal
attacks are par for the course, these two men have never
been challenged by their enemies or others as to the validity
of these comments.

The silence does seem deafening.
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             PRG
     Paradigm Research Group

October 2, 2007
Press Release
John Podesta, Governor Bill Richardson and Exopolitics

Washington, DC - There is an extraordinary anomaly
embedded in the ongoing political campaign cycle well
on its way to being the longest and most expensive in
American history. It centers on two key figures in the
Democratic Party - John Podesta and New Mexico Governor
Bill Richardson.

John Podesta was a key adviser and chief of staff to
President Bill Clinton, husband of the leading Democratic
presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton.  Podesta
then became the founder and CEO of the Center for American
Progress, a left of center think tank funded by George Soros
and others to counter the influence of the Heritage Foundation
and the American Enterprise Institute. He operates at the
center of the intellectual matrixforming policy for the
anticipated Democratic administration and expanded Democratic
House and Senate in 2009.[www.americanprogress.com]

In October of 2002 and 2003 at the National Press Club Podesta
gave opening statements at two press conferences scheduled by
the Coalition for Freedom of Information which contained these
remarks:

"I think it's time to open the books on questions that
have remained in the dark on the question of government
investigations of UFOs......We ought to do it because....
the American people quite frankly can handle the truth,
and we ought to do it because it's the law."

"It is time for the government to declassify records
that are more than 25 years old and to provide scientists
with data that will assist in determining the real nature
of this (UFO) phenomenon." [http://tinyurl.com/39b73x]

Governor Richardson also served in the Clinton administration
after spending 14 years in the House of Representatives.
He served one year as Ambassador to the United Nations and
two years as Secretary of Energy.

He then became a successful governor and participated in
numerous foreign missions.  In a foreword to "The Roswell Dig
Diaries" published in 2006 by Pocket Books Governor Richardson
wrote:

".....the mystery surrounding this crash (at Roswell) has
never been adequately explained - not by independent
investigators, and not by the U.S. government."

"It would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed
everything it knows. With full disclosure and our best
scientific investigation, we should be able to find out
what happened on that fateful day in July of 1947. The
American people can handle the truth no matter how bizarre
or mundane, and contrary to what you see in the movies."
[http://tinyurl.com/39h4ma]

The aforementioned anomaly has two parts:  1) why haven't
the top-tier political media and presidential debate
moderators challenged these men on their statements which
directly contradict government policy regarding what is
easily the most implicative issue of our time, and
2) given that partisan politics is as vicious as the pundits
can recall and every opportunity to bring down an opponent,
within or without one's party,is taken with relish, John
Podesta and Bill Richardson are completely untouched
regarding their provocative statements relating to Roswell
and ET/UFO phenomena.

Senator George Allen's political career was ended by a single
careless word. Senators John McCain and Max Cleland were
viciously attacked without basis in fact on the most personal
level. But a high level Democratic political operative and
presidential candidate have directly challenged the government's
formal policy that UFO's are a non-issue and extraterrestrials
do not exist, and remain untouched by their political enemies
and the press.

What is going on here?

Contact: Stephen Bassett, Executive Director