Will 'President Hillary Clinton' Open the X-Files?
If "the truth is out there," as they used to say on the old "X-Files" program, Hillary Clinton says she's eager to expose it.
No, she's not talking about her controversial email server, although an FBI investigation is looking into that, too.
She's talking about UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or, as she corrected Jimmy Kimmel when he recently asked her on his late-night-TV show about possible visitors from other planets, "unexplained aerial phenomena" -- or U.A.P.
"That's the latest nomenclature," she said, scoring points, no doubt, with UFO -- or UAP -- enthusiasts.
Barring any threats to national security, the former secretary of state said, she would open up government files on little green visitors or whoever else may have paid us a visit from other planets.
It would be easier, I suppose, than opening up the texts to her high-priced speeches to Goldman Sachs, as requested by her Democratic rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
She also has been more excited about UFOs -- or "UAPs" -- than President Obama, who tends to treat the subject as a rich source of amusement.
So did White House press secretary Josh Earnest in a press briefing last week (May 11). Citing a New York Times story about Clinton's vow to "get to the bottom" of the "UFO and the Area 51 conspiracy," CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller (cq) asked whether the president would "beat her to the punch" by showing some transparency on this issue "which is of concern to a lot of Americans."
Area 51, in case you also just arrived from Mars (Welcome, by the way, and please don't eat us), is a remote super-secret Nevada airbase rumored to be the resting place of captured flying saucers, alien corpses and other wonders depicted in sci-fi movies like "Independence Day" (1996) or "Paul" (2011).
"I have to admit," Earnest said earnestly, "I don't have a tab in my briefing book for Area 51."
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