I just published a direct address monologue to the President laying out the case for why AARO was designed to contain, not investigate.
Everything in this piece is sourced to the record:
— In 2021, Gillibrand and Rubio proposed a genuinely independent UAP investigation office with mandatory congressional notification if any classified program denied access. Within five days, Deputy SecDef Kathleen Hicks issued a pre-drafted memo standing up the Pentagon's own version. Congress passed the law anyway. The Pentagon absorbed it, renamed it AARO, and told Congress there would only be one office — theirs.
— AARO's first director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, told Congress he invited David Grusch to come in four or five times. Grusch said publicly: "I have zero emails or calls from them. That is a lie."
— Grusch testified under oath that AARO could not access the SAPs and CAPs where a program like this would actually be hidden. Kirkpatrick filed a report saying he found nothing. He was looking in the rooms he was allowed to enter.
— Kirkpatrick left AARO and landed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the DOE payroll. From that perch he attacked Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna, calling her and her witnesses "lunatics," "charlatans," and "grifters." Luna called him a "documented liar" on the congressional record and threatened to subpoena him.
— His replacement came on direct assignment from ODNI. The intelligence community sent their own person to run the office that was supposed to oversee the intelligence community.
— DHS — the agency created after 9/11 specifically because the CIA and DOD were in a turf war that got Americans killed — has been completely frozen out of the UAP investigation.
The monologue closes with five specific moves: freeze out AARO, direct DHS to open its own investigation, let Congress use its subpoena power, put the contractors under oath, and let Tulsi Gabbard use her authority as DNI over the compartmented programs AARO was never allowed to touch.
Full monologue here: https://youtu.be/sd2eqYZZSv8
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In this direct address monologue, Matt Ford lays out how the Pentagon built AARO to swallow Congress’s mandate for independent UAP oversight, why its first director was called a “documented liar” on the congressional record, and why unidentified craft operating over American nuclear plants, military bases, and critical infrastructure is a homeland security issue that the CIA and DOD have frozen DHS out of.