Annie Jacobsen Quotes

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.

Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

You can’t have Congressional hearings on classified matters.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #‎ disclosure of the UFO files.

I was in the Justice Department for three years. I remember my entry briefing by the CIA. I can tell the date of it. I remember my exit interview from the CIA. And I remember that "C" in parentheses meant confidential.

Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

So she [Hillary Clinton] wouldn't intentionally put the nation at risk. She wouldn't intentionally traffic in top secret stuff. And besides, not all this stuff we deal with is that classified anyway. So here's the president [Barack Obama], very powerful, intimidating guy, [James] Comey works for him, the president's been out there saying he didn't think Hillary did anything wrong.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in.

What happens when I'm dealing with the problems in North Korea and the Middle East? Are you folks going to be reporting all that very, very confidential information, very important, very - you know, at the highest level? Are you going to be reporting about that, too? So I don't want classified information getting out into the public in a way that was almost a test.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

My real issue is that the woman [Hillary Clinton] exposed thousands and thousands of classified documents, which, if I exposed one of them when I was in the Justice Department, they would have put me in jail. That's what I know.

I made an effort to find out what was in the building at Wright Patterson Air Force Base where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still classified above Top Secret.