Jeremy Corbell on government: what the evidence says · JRE #1361
SUBJECT: GOVERNMENT
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
It's a misnomer, actually, that AATIP was the recipient of the $22 million. It was actually Harry Reid who created a program called OSAP. OSAP was the sole beneficiary of that $22 million. The New York Times got it wrong.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The New York Times' December 2017 reporting, corroborated by NPR and other outlets, established that Harry Reid secured roughly $22 million for a Defense Intelligence Agency program he initiated in 2007, publicly referred to at the time as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Subsequent accounts, including from former DIA program manager James Lacatski, have clarified that the funded program's formal internal name was AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program), with "AATIP" used publicly and by the press for the same or a closely related effort; this is a documented naming discrepancy, not evidence the Times invented or misattributed the funding figure. No mainstream reporting, congressional record, or Pentagon disclosure identifies a program called "OSAP" as the recipient of the $22 million; a similar-sounding term has surfaced only in unverified congressional testimony describing a separate, unrelated alleged crash-retrieval effort, not as the official name of the funded research program Reid backed. The $22 million figure and Reid's role in securing it are well documented and undisputed. Corbell's claim that "the New York Times got it wrong" about the funding's existence and destination is not supported by available evidence; the genuine point of confusion in expert accounts concerns program naming (AAWSAP vs. AATIP), not the accuracy of the Times' reporting on the funding itself.