boulderaggie said:
I don't understand this conflict. Do you mind explaining it for my small brain? Much appreciated!
In December 2017, when Elizondo came forward/entered the public eye, he presented himself through the lens of a duty-bound patriot and official whistleblower. He claimed that he resigned as the head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) due to excessive DoD bureaucracy and internal opposition that was suppressing critical national security data about UAPs. In doing so, Lue painted himself as someone who risked his career, going so far as to file a DoD Inspector General complaint over alleged internal campaigns to discredit him and erase his official history. Basically, according to Elizondo, he was just a little ol' fed up patriot who nobly decided to leave government in order to blow the whistle and tell the world about the reality of UAPs.
It's important to note that Lue presented his past work at AATIP as an official, baseline DoD effort to study military UAP sightings, and nothing more. Essentially, he claims he was part of an investigative body with limited access and limited funding, who ultimately managed to glean *some* classified information, re: the DoD, their monitoring of UAPs, and certain conclusions they had reached after years of said monitoring.
However, with UAPGerb as the face of the following claims, a contingent of Gerb, Ross Coulthart (thus NewsNation as well), Representative Eric Burlison, and others, who are working behind-the-scenes in coordination with whistleblower David Grusch, claim that Elizondo has not been fully transparent, to quite an alarming degree. Basically, before being a part of AATIP, it is a known fact that Lue was a counterintelligence officer, and Gerb/Coulthart/etc claim that not only did Elizondo never stop being a counterintelligence officer, this whole apparent charade, since 2017, has been a counterintelligence operation. So much so that they claim they have it on good authority that AATIP, under the operation of James Clapper, was merely a "front," or a top-layer investigative program, and that Elizondo's real background in counterintelligence gave him direct links to the deeper, unacknowledged Legacy Program itself.
In other words, they claim Elizondo was a part of the the UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program all along, and that his "coming forward" / whistleblower efforts were/are part of a counterintelligence program to, yes, acknowledge the existence of UAPs/NHIs, but in a controlled manner, wherein they continue to cover up the highly illegal Legacy Program itself.
Or, put another way, UAP garb & co purport that the Legacy Program knew that total secrecy was no longer sustainable due to technological proliferation, civilian sensors, and independent whistleblowers. So, to keep the secret from unraveling out of control, the Legacy Program needed a handler / trusted insider to come forward and publicly lead a sanitized disclosure process. By dictating what gets released, when it gets released, and how it's framed (by, for instance, focusing on national security threats rather than corporate cover-ups), the Legacy Program though it could protect itself from legal liability and public outrage.
In short, UAPGerb and his contingent do not view Elizondo as an innocent outsider who stumbled onto a secret. They suspect he was part of the system that kept the secret, and that his current public role is the Legacy Program's way of controlling its own narrative/landing.
David Grusch started sniffing this out circa 2018 or so, spent four years investigating the entire thing, finally said **** this, and in 2023 via Coulthart, NewsNation, and via Congressional hearing, blew the lid off the Legacy Program as the key to it all. Now, he's working with Gerb, Coulthart, Burlison and co to call Elizondo out, and reveal the whole truth, warts and all, not just the sanitized truth, wherein the bad actors get to stay in the shadows.