Nevada democrat Harry Reid is thankfully retired, but his legacy of corruption and lunacy lives on. Thanks to a flurry of reports we now know that the former Senate Majority Leader wasted $22 million looking for UFOs. Not only is that a lot of money but that’s a lot of our money that went to essentially make the TV show The X-Files a real thing. The best news is, that much of this cash went to enrich a good friend of the lunatic liberal.
Politico was one of the many sources to break this story yesterday:
The Pentagon, at the direction of Congress, a decade ago quietly set up a multi-million dollar program to investigate what are popularly known as unidentified flying objects—UFOs
The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, whose existence was not classified but operated with the knowledge of an extremely limited number of officials, was the brainchild of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), who first secured the appropriation to begin the program in 2009 with the support of the late Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
While the Politico story mostly focuses on how awesome they think Reid is for playing Agent Mulder with our cash, they slip this in like it’s an afterthought and not the most important point:
Reid initiated the program, which ultimately spent more than $20 million, through an earmark after he was persuaded in part by aerospace titan and hotel chain founder Bob Bigelow, a friend and fellow Nevadan who owns Bigelow Aerospace, a space technology company and government contractor. Bigelow, whose company received some of the research contracts, was also a regular contributor to Reid’s re-election campaigns, campaign finance records show, at least $10,000 between 1998 and 2008.
Hey, that’s not a bad investment for Bigelow. He gives Harry Reid 10 grand and gets millions back on a government contract. Who says democracy doesn’t work?
Because Reid is still a complete asshole, he tweeted out some support for this story, ignoring the corruption aspects of course:
The truth is out there.
Seriously. https://t.co/ytafycaZqe
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) December 16, 2017
If anyone says they have the answers, they’re fooling themselves.
We don’t know the answers but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions. This is about science and national security. If America doesn’t take the lead in answering these questions, others will.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) December 16, 2017
Well, we have some of the answers. Reid stole our money in the name of “science” and “national security” to make his rich friend a little richer. The only ones fooling themselves about this are Reid and democrats who really believe that our money belongs to them to spend on whatever stupid thing they want.
In related news, Reid also “earmarked” 50 million taxpayer dollars to find Bigfoot. The program was suspended when all evidence pointed to former FLOTUS Michelle Obama.
Okay, maybe that last bit wasn’t entirely true. Maybe.
via Downtrend.com
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