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UFO Whistleblower Kept Security Clearance After Psychiatric Detention (theintercept.com)
8 points by belter on Nov 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The headline of this article feels deliberately misleading in some very intangible way.

Being admitted because you're a suicide risk due to abusing alcohol is very different than say, being admitted due to some kind of psychiatric break or psychosis, especially in the context of a person's general credibility as a commentator on things like UFO's.

It feels like the headline is designed to try and imply that the guy is crazy, when reading the article clearly demonstrates that is not actually the case.


I am all for open public records, FOIA etc. Seems quite privacy invasive though that you can get police records for several months on a specific address and a specific person.


This is from early August. Why is it relevant again in early November?


Either scared of the ETs or a terrible viral campaign for BetterHelp?




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