NSC power increases in effort to regain control of X-Files

James Jones & German Def. Minister. Photo: AP

Obama’s national security advisor, General James Jones (U.S. Marines, ret.), announced in an interview with the Washington Post yesterday that the power of the National Security Council (NSC) would be dramatically increased under the Obama administration. Jones said: "The world that we live in has changed so dramatically in this decade that organizations that were created to meet a certain set of criteria no longer are terribly useful."  General Jones made clear that he would take charge of NSC meetings and be the primary advisor to Obama on national security issues:

The most important thing is that you are in fact the coordinator and you're the guy around which the meetings occur. When we chair a principals meeting, I'm the chairman.

According to Jones, restructuring the NSC entailed a new look at its membership: "The whole concept of what constitutes the membership of the national security community … has got to embrace a broader membership". Expanding the membership, structure and power of the NSC will allow the Obama administration to have greater control over a historically nebulous national security system. Most importantly, the upcoming Presidential Directive will allow the NSC to increase Presidential executive oversight of many classified programs strategically dispersed throughout the military-industrial complex.

Historically, the most heavily ‘compartmentalized’ programs, i.e., those having layers of security and ‘need-to-know’ access above ‘Top Secret’ or ‘Q’ clearance, have been off limits to elected government officials. Control over the most highly classified projects has been exercised by appointed committees that have become increasingly privatized. This had led to the emergence of quasi-governmental committees that control many of the transnational corporations fulfilling defense industry contracts. Much of the information and technology passed over by government/military entities to these corporations for research and development, subsequently become trade secrets that disappear into a corporate black hole. This process has effectively cut out of the loop top national security and elected officials who in earlier Presidential administrations had access and control over highly classified technologies.

President Eisenhower first warned about the increasing power of corporations in his famous 1961 farewell address concerning the increasing power of the Military-Industrial complex. Corporate influence in running and controlling highly classified projects has accelerated during later presidential administrations. In 1997, for example, the Intelligence Chief for the Joint Chiefs of Staff was denied need-to-know access to a highly classified project administered by a corporate defense contractor.

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In an earlier article, I predicted that in the first 100 days of the Obama administration, steps would be taken by General Jones for the release of classified antigravity technologies. His interest in the development and public release of new energy ideas, especially in the aerospace industry, indicated that antigravity technology would rank very highly among his list of priorities. The Presidential Directive to be released this week marks the first concrete evidence of an agenda to gain access and eventually release antigravity technologies being pursued by senior officials in the Obama administration. The Directive will contain oversight provisions that will enable Obama to monitor what is happening in the nebulous national security system where technology and information routinely disappears into the corporate sector. General Jones said:

But you have to make sure, . . . particularly if it's a presidential decision, that the president is kept abreast of how things are going. That it doesn't just fall off the end of the table and disappear into outer space.

As the NSC is strengthened and expanded, the Obama administration will use the NSC as the principal lever for regaining access and control over the most heavily classified national security programs. Among these programs are X-Files that deal with information and technology concerning extraterrestrial life and UFOs. Control and access to the X-Files will ultimately lead to confrontation with transnational corporations and the quasi-government committees that run them. Corporations are unlikely to easily relinquish control of what they consider ‘trade secrets’, but in fact are classified information and technologies originating from various national security entities in the U.S. and other nations. Returning access and control over highly classified technologies and X-Files to an expanded NSC, is an important first step in restoring principles of Open Government and transparency.