“SECRET” and THE NEED TO KNOW BASIS - a very important principle

 

 

As soon as I arrived in the United States to live, I learned some basic principles regarding information, particularly what is referred to as SECRET and TOP SECRET.

The principle that governs access to something is the need to know.

During the years I spent investigating UFO reports by people, I read and heard references to someone apparently important within the Ufological environment, signaled as someone who “has access to top secret” information.

As many others, I tended to think that such a person knew things that the vast majority of the world's population doesn’t know.

As a matter of fact, classifying information as secret implies that it has restricted circulation.

When someone has access to top-secret information, it gives the impression that the person knows a lot about something, and if it is about  UFOs, apparently, the person should know their characteristics, maybe the source of their power, and even who they belong to.

But, there are two more steps beyond top secret classification, concerning issues mostly related to official information, material, projects, experiments, new sources of power, new weapons, etc.

Essentially, the people who could have access to those highest levels of knowledge and secrets must be high-ranking military, scientists, engineers, specialized technicians, etc.

All of them belong to an important organization and have been developing their activities for decades. They have to be people who reached a position that allows them access to extremely secret things.

In other words, they have to be people who need to know extremely secret things to develop their work. They are engaged with those things, and they are part of creating those things.

The Presidency has its limits

President Trump has announced that he ordered the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to prepare a report about UFOs and UAPs.

The media, echoing the illusion of many fans of the idea of extraterrestrial origin, talk about the presentation of dozens of videos. Unless the videos have been analyzed and found to show something unexplained, presenting them without investigation has a value equal to 0.

But the most important thing of all of this is that the President has his own limitations about how much he can know.

Under the principle of need-to-know basis, the Department of War will not give special revelation to the President about things he does not need to know to develop his work of governing the nation.

But the other thing is that it won't be given to someone without  permanent employment. And precisely that is the case of a President.

The President in the United States is elected to a four-year term, with the opportunity to be reelected to one additional term, totaling a maximum of eight years in office.

In conclusion: do not expect any extraordinary or sensational revelation.

Milton W. Hourcade