Ethics

Klayman Joins the UFO Nuts

By Ed Brayton

It seems that Larry Klayman's tinfoil hat is fitting him tighter and tighter every day. Claiming that the swine flu outbreak was a secret Muslim terrorist plot was just the beginning; now he says the government is covering up for real illegal aliens -- the kind from other planets. And naturally, the Worldnutdaily is promoting his wingnuttery.

What does the U.S. government really know about UFOs and other unexplained phenomena?

That's what Larry Klayman's Freedom Watch organization wants to know. And the group has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency and the U.S. Air Force in an effort to find out.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).