Clif High - U B Classified!

Aug. 25, 2022 - Clif High

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U B Classified!

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	Hello humans!
	Hello humans!
	Today's the 25th of August.
	It's 8.41 a.m.
	On the road again.
	That's interesting.
	That's where they had the rollover accident last time.
	Ugly bit of stuff there.
	These vaccines are not nice.
	We've seen a number of them around here.
	Anyway, so I want to talk about classified material and the effect, the use, and the proliferation of it.
	So classification structures have existed, secret, top secret, etc.
	going back into the late 1800s.
	Actually, we had three categories of secret that were like official in the Civil War.
	And then it sort of languished for a long time.
	There was a slight ramp up in activity related to classified documents, which was very, very few.
	Very few documents at all were restricted prior to the 1914 period, which of course, you know, makes sense.
	It was the Kazarian Mafia and their Federal Reserve Bank that brought in the situation that allowed the secrecy industry to grow.
	And it truly is an industry.
	So you have people that just work at maintaining secrets.
	They don't know what the secrets are.
	They just are there to protect them and that's all they do for a living.
	So it's truly an industry and they're just to provide secrecy services in the form of, you know, protecting classified documents, etc.
	But classification into secret categories is not necessarily all that meaningful.
	So my father was what they call a lifer.
	Okay, so he signed up for basically a lifelong contract with the U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Infantry, Screaming Eagles.
	And throughout his career, he served in various different categories.
	So he was a battlefield commission into an officer category.
	So he went from a corporal up to a first lieutenant in the Korean War because he demonstrated leadership on the battlefield and saved all these guys and got medals and all of that kind of crap, right?
	And so from that point on in his military career, he had some, he was a field officer then, but then he went on in to be, do various different kinds of tasks.
	And some of these tasks actually involved dealing with classified material.
	And it's weird, okay, because there's all these different grades of classified material, some of which you can take home.
	So he used to have his special study material at the War College in Leavenworth, Kansas.
	Some of that was classified, but it was sort of classified in the sense that it was exemplary, right?
	It was an example of a particular kind of classifications that he would have to deal with in his activities in those areas in the military.
	So he was variously a field officer, a line officer, staff officer, did training, I did investigative work.
	So he had these various different categories that he worked in.
	And some of the categories, as I say, he had to deal with classified material and some of this stuff he would bring home.
	You know, because he had to, you know, he was in transit, he had to take it with him or whatever, right?
	And so we would have classified material at the house, none of which I ever really cared about or looked at.
	It was like, you know, okay, you know, it's what your dad does, right?
	And it wasn't even an interesting part.
	It was just all paperwork.
	And, you know, you do that shit at school.
	So it's like, oh, you don't want to get involved in any of that.
	But as a result of him having classified material, we would always, and also as a result of his particular categories of work within the U.S. military, within the U.S. Army, and Other circumstances, we would get annual security inspections of our family, right?
	So we would know that, oh, hey, you know, for sure, all of our phone calls are going to be monitored for the next month.
	And of course, these are, you know, on landline phones.
	So it was very easy for them to do relatively.
	You'd pick it up, you'd know they were monitoring because it sounded weird.
	There was a very definite hollowness to the conversation.
	It was very much, most people won't understand the reference, but it was very much like a party line.
	There's this sort of aspect to picking it up.
	You know, there's more than one other line connected.
	You know, there's more than one other individual on the listening to the conversation because there's a sort of hollow sound, not echoey, but just hollow.
	And you'd hear click clicks and sometimes buzzes as they were turning on their equipment, so on, you know, tape recorders and stuff.
	Because it wasn't automated, it wasn't software.
	It was a human sitting there doing it.
	Anyway, so we would have this month-long, for sure, month-long period where they would record all of our conversations and that kind of stuff.
	Now, as kids, I'm sure we were very uninteresting.
	You know, it's like, oh, hey, going to meet you at the ballpark, you know, that kind of thing, right?
	So the military guy is probably pretty bored with us, but it was interesting to go through that year after year after year.
	And then we also knew that there were periods of time throughout the year where we would have the monitoring going, but we were not being told about it.
	So it was like a surprise inspection.
	And, you know, it was interesting.
	Also, you'd know that they were doing it because, again, you could hear the difference in the nature of the phone call.
	Most of this stuff took place in Europe and on the East Coast.
	My dad did a stint working at the DOD as a liaison for Lyndon Johnson.
	So he was, we were actually stationed in Virginia, but he was commuting on a really solid schedule and would be gone for weeks, especially that year.
	That was 1968, the year of the riots at the Democratic Convention, where the socialists and everybody and the communists attacked the convention and there were riots in Chicago.
	Hell of a situation.
	Anyway, so in 1968, he was doing this commuting back and forth a lot, dealing with his job as a liaison from DOD to the White House, and also was in charge of specific aspects of security relative to the Democratic Convention that year and thus dealing with all the riots and stuff.
	Anyway, so we had interactions with classified material.
	I've seen classified films.
	I've seen or listened to classified recordings just as an aside because my dad had to go and listen to him and I'd hear him in the other room, that kind of thing, right?
	So, but these were all low-level classifications.
	And factually, I probably would not have been able to betray a classification as a kid anyway, because no one would have listened to me.
	And I didn't know anybody to tell.
	So, you know, it wasn't like there's security leaks or breaks or any of that.
	But in his work at the war college in obtaining his PhD in war stuff, I got to see him go through all the homework and see all this stuff sitting around.
	And so became very familiar with the entire overall view of the secrecy structure within the U.S. Army relative to itself and other branches of the service and what they were doing with classified material, etc.
	So I've got a pretty good understanding of how it all works.
	And I have worked with classified material as a result of my jobs as an adult doing coding for various different government agencies.
	So I've occasionally had to have security clearances to handle particular material, especially related to nuclear, because I worked for as a subcontractor for FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is One of the top dogs in regulating nuclear stuff.
	And I had to code a lot of it and reduce it to algorithms and write software that did things for them and so on.
	So I had to be very familiar with it.
	So I had to get a security clearance to be able to handle the stuff, which was relatively easy because I'd had that prior experience with the security stuff and I've never done anything that would set any flags off for these guys.
	So that's something that you need to understand.
	So there's a big difference between how the classified agencies such as CIA and NSA deal with classified material as opposed to how the military does it.
	So in the world in which I grew up, someone like Phil Frodluski would not be allowed to handle classified material because he's got a conviction for,
	as I understand it, for corruption of a minor, which is close enough to pedophilia that they would know that such an individual, the classified agent, classified people in the military, would know that such a person was a potential weak spot for dealing with classified material because they could be bent, right?
	An agent, somebody, a foreign government could come in and bend them because they know of that predilection.
	Anyway, so all kinds of people would never be allowed to even look at classified material.
	And so that's at the military level.
	Now, in the classified agencies, CIA, NSA, they deal with this shit in an entirely different way because they've got a, in my opinion, a very different agenda that they're working relative to the classification, and they will use classified material in very inappropriate hands for specific reasons.
	So in other words, the fact that there's classified material on the Hunter Biden laptop tells and the type of classified material it is, which is to say that it is military access codes,
	Military intelligence access codes suggest to my mind that the Hunter Biden laptop, that Hunter Biden was a dupe or was being used by or had had enough sway anyway that he's been involved in the CIA and the NSA.
	Because it was the military classification codes and not CIA access codes or any of these not codes or any of those that would tend to, so he's not betraying CIA secrets or NSA secrets.
	They're setting him up to have been a betrayer of, or, you know, potentially of military secrets.
	So anyway, so long and involved, the CIA would do these kinds of things, right?
	They would plant classified material on one of their people, one of their potential assets, and then catch them with the classified material just to be able to blackmail them and make them do what they want.
	Or they would put classified material on their agents to have that agent fuck up and have that classified material leak out to whoever they want to set up one stage further on.
	They'd shit like that all the time.
	That's a you know major modus operandi for them.
	Anyway, so classified material is not quite what everybody thinks.
	If you've got, there's kinds of classifications where if you're classified at a particular level, you're allowed, and basically if you're in the military, you're allowed to see that level, not necessarily any of the levels below it.
	So above top secret doesn't necessarily mean you get to see the stuff that's classified as top secret.
	It's all on a need-to-know basis.
	So it's not blanket coverage.
	So just because you had potentially achieved a security classification within the military structure doesn't mean you can just go willy-nilly and look through all this shit.
	The only people that really get to do that are those people that are in charge of documents and the archived stuff.
	And a lot of times they can't actually look at the documents because the documents themselves arrive to them as sealed packages.
	And they just deal with sealed packages in a security situation, never looking in the material itself.
	Some archivists have to go through because they've got to make through, make, they've got to index it all, get it all prepared for database access, this sort of thing.
	So they have to go through it and they have to make annotations on what they see so that they can provide search terms that would bring that document up under the appropriate circumstances for whoever it is that's classified that document.
	Then there's the part about the classification that's kind of odd, and that is who can classify documents.
	So the president can unclassify anything or classify anything as they should choose, right?
	At a whim, really, because it's assumed they always have a good reason for doing either.
	That, and unclassification is a separate kind of an activity to declassify something.
	But the classification process is goofy as hell because of who has the ability to do classification.
	So I have been in situations, TDYs, short-term stayovers, like two months here, three months there, where my dad had a short-term duty and we would stay on base and this kind of stuff.
	And as a kid, you wouldn't necessarily even be checked into school if it's only going to be a month or so.
	And you'd hang around a lot in like the duty rooms and this kind of thing, depending on what the nature of the assignment was.
	But so I've been in situations where I've been able to observe corporals and E2s through enlisted, you know, first, I mean, private first class, basically, E2 all the way up through into ward officers.
	Now, ward officers legitimately could do classification given the nature of their jobs.
	However, as I say, I've seen a corporal take a document and decide for whatever reason.
	I wasn't privy to the conversation.
	I didn't know what the guy at the desk was told by the fellow standing up there that had brought the document in.
	But the corporal got it out, stamped it, put the classification on it, put the little tags on it, did all of the stuff necessary to put it into its little package, and basically had done 100% of the work that would present that document as a classified document to anybody examining it.
	And it was not in his authority or job duties to do that.
	He was an aide.
	He was like a secretary to the officer.
	And even that officer, I would question whether he had explicit authority to do classification.
	But you can do it this way in the military because of the way that the organization works.
	If you're a trusted secretary to somebody, you can slip shit in.
	You've got a buddy that's in problem, and you just classify something.
	So like the guy gets a DUI on base.
	Okay, so this is very, very, very serious.
	Getting a DUI in the civilian hands is very serious as well.
	But having it happen on base is a really big deal.
	And so, you know, so your buddy gets a DUI and you go to the buddy in the classification section and he classifies all the documents around it and says that there was a national security issue involved.
	And he's like a corporal, right?
	And so he fills out all the paperwork because he's got to do it for his officer anyway.
	The officer, all he does is barely look at it and sign it and pass it on up to his supervisor.
	And so the corporal fills all this stuff out.
	Maybe he's got two or three or four or five documents, maybe hundreds, the way it goes.
	And he just slips one in there.
	The officer doesn't even look at it.
	He just basically signs it, puts it in with the rest of the pile and passes it on.
	And if he were to even examine it, the corporal could come up with some bullshit story saying, look, the MPs brought this over.
	I don't know what it is.
	I don't know what national security thing is involved here.
	Maybe the guy, you know, and no one, they would always speculate, but no one would know what would happen, why the DUI in some way involved national security.
	But there you go.
	Now this thing gets in there.
	He passes it on up to the captain.
	The captain signs it.
	The captain passes it up to the major.
	It gets stamped and double bagged, so to speak, by the major's staff.
	So he might have, you know, first lieutenants or something handling it.
	Whatever, it doesn't matter.
	They do it all over again.
	And so there's the next layer added to it.
	And then by the time it gets up to the colonel who signs it for the archives, it's had three of the bags, so to speak, three of these little classification sacks that are put around it.
	And it's buried.
	It's, you know, you've got to get, at that point, it's officially classified.
	And just to figure out that it should never have been classified, you've got to have classification authority to go and look at it.
	And then maybe you've got to bump it up to somebody to ask, to basically say this never should have been classified and should be unclassified.
	But here's the thing.
	It's in no one's interest.
	Nobody.
	Nobody has a job of sitting there and going through documents saying, no, this never should have been classified or this doesn't need to be classified now or any of that, right?
	That the current times, it no longer matters that we had a special design for a horseshoe for military cavalry in the 1860s, right?
	So we don't have to have these classified designs for horseshoes.
	This is an example that is not factual.
	I hope not anymore.
	Anyway, so the point being that there's no job to whittle down the vast mountains of classified documents.
	And it's in nobody's interest in the security business to give away power, to give away things that they have to work on.
	So it's a turf issue as well.
	So there's incentives throughout the entire organization of the military to keep classification going.
	And, you know, there's all the puff-uppery where you get all puffed up because, oh, I'm, you know, I'm handling classified above top secret documents.
	And realistically, you know, yes, there are above top secret documents, and there are real secrets that military and otherwise that should remain secrets for reasons of national security.
	But likely some fraction that is so large as to be near 100%, so it's like 99.999999% of all of the documents that the United States has classified should not be classified.
	They have, for instance, the CIA unclassified and showed everybody that they had previously classified this thing called the Adam and Eve story, which is one of these apocalyptic forecasts for the planet.
	And it's all bogus, 100% bullshit.
	But they had it classified.
	So there's all kinds of bullshit stuff that gets classified as well.
	And the CIA doesn't vet things necessarily before they classify them.
	And as I say, especially the CIA classifies stuff for reasons other than the inherent nature of the security of that stuff.
	In other words, they will classify stuff as bait and for all kinds of reasons involving their weird games and scams.
	Under the circumstances, classification, in my way, you know, somebody says, oh, look, this classified document.
	Well, it's like, eh, you know, are you just being played?
	What's the deal here?
	So most of the people in the woo stuff that say they have Intel and they're talking to classified individuals and all this kind of stuff.
	Well, none of those people are legit, right?
	100% guaranteed, none of them are legit if they're actually talking to somebody outside their head.
	So, you know, like some of these guys say, I'm up at 4.30 in the morning and on Intel.
	It's like, okay, fine.
	You know, so your brain's rattling and your mind's humming and buzzing, but you're not necessarily really having a conversation with anybody.
	In any event, though, none of these people are going to be legit.
	Those individuals that have classified information are not going to be spilling classified information because of the many reasons to not do so.
	Those people that are doing it are doing it for a specific agenda.
	It's likely not meaningfully classified information.
	Yes, it may be classified information.
	They may have a top security tag on it.
	It may be triple bagged and registered and archived, but it's simply not meaningful information like this Adam and Eve story, right?
	Which is not ever going to happen.
	It's a weird little apocalyptic vision that someone classified for their own purposes that does not in any way reflect reality, but it is a classified document.
	So therefore they can unclassify it or they could leak it or do whatever.
	And a lot of people in the woo-woo world would get excited and accept it simply because it had been classified.
	So they use it that way.
	So anyway, all of this is pertinent because of the nuke codes and the other shit and so on that Trump supposedly had and they supposedly rated him for and all of this, right?
	All of this stuff is going to get ever so much more interesting over these next few weeks.
	All right, hang on a second.
	We've got emergency vehicles here flashing and shit.
	What's going on?
	Oh, that's right.
	I don't care about that.
	Anyway, so as I say, the next few weeks we're going to get into the next round of constitutional crises here.
	And we're going to get into this big examination of classified, what it means to be classified, and so on.
	All of this is going to ultimately, in my opinion, lead us closer to the discussion of the space aliens and that sort of thing, which is going to open up a giant, giant, giant Earth-size, planet-size can of worms.
	Anyway, so in September, we'll see the juxtaposition here of the classified information coming out stuff, as well as the financial stuff taking that next big leap.
	And so sometime I'm thinking between now and the end of September, we should get this, I don't know, first dribble of the information out about the space aliens and UFOs and so on.
	Some of that will be legit.
	All of it will be classified.
	All of it will be declassified in order to expose it.
	But that does not necessarily vet any of it.
	Does not mean that any of it is factual.
	And so under the circumstances, just because they're releasing classified information about that says this about a space alien or that about a space alien does not mean that it is factual.
	It doesn't mean it's anything more than a scam to get you to think and behave a particular way.
	Okay, so that's it, guys.

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