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This Clinton Library FOIA release (case 2006-0476-F) comes from the White House email records file labeled "WHO (Roswell)" and covers December 1996 to September 1997. It includes withdrawal sheets and public emails sent to the President. One email is Nicholas Greene's December 1996 essay arguing that extraterrestrials exist, which cites Roswell, astronaut sightings and Michigan reports. Other emails forward a transcript of a Milton William Cooper speech and a Claude DiDomenica essay about Roswell and Corso.
ARMS Email System check. The NRA supports it. Majority Leader Lott supports it. Gingrich supports it. The only one dragging their feet is the Justice Department and the White House, for some reason. And congreSis has already . "appropriated a quarter of a billion dollars .to carry it out. MS. BRADY: And, most of it has been disbursed. MS. DOUGLASS: But Ms. Brady, in fact, the police probably would benefit well, would they not, from an instant check? Do they really take the five days and use all that time to find out everything about the police, the busy police -- everything about someone who wants to buy a gun? MS. BRADY: I think it's a wonderful -- it will be a topnotch tool for law enforcement to have an instantaneous check. But in addition -- that is not going to be sufficient to run a really good comprehensive background check. It won't have medical records. Criminal mental patients won't be up and going on it. We need I think they need - in addition they're going to need several days .. I don't think it -- not necessarily has to be the full five days. MS. DOUGLASS: Well, what do you want to do in the interim? You want to propose some legislation to put the onus on the gun dealer to do a . background check? MS. BRADY: The onus, we hope, is on -- I mean, law enforcement wants to do it, wants to do-- and we don't k~ow yet what kind of legislation we're going to propose. But I do want to say one thing about a waiting period. It has always been in Brady, in law, anyone who is in any danger whatsoever can waive -- the waiting period can be waived and they are able to get a gun that day. So that is a -- that's a red herring. That doesn't affect it. MR. LAPIERRE: But try getting that gun if someone's trying to kill you. But the point the bottom line is, until you computerize these records, when a police officer pulls someone over right now, forget the! gun check, on an interstate highway in the middle of the night and punches into his machine, he's not getting that data. And the people that were opposed - MS. BRADY: Oh,'we're all for that, though. I mean - MR. LAPIERRE: And the people that were opposed to computerizing the mental health records of people being adjudicated mentally incompetent was the White House. . We were in favor of that. MS. BRADY: I think MR. DONALDSON: We're about out of time. MS. BRADY: I think we agree on the fact that a national computerized check system is the best possible method. I'm only saying we also need a waiting period. MR. DONALDSON: We're about out of time, and I just want to·ask very quickly, Britain now is moving toward banning handguns entirely from the population. Are'we headed in that direction? MR. LAPIERRE: I would hope not. I mean, the constitutional right to own a gun is one of the great privileges, one of the great freedoms, and - MS. BRADY: No, we're not headed there. MR. 'LAPIERRE: -- it shouldn't be eliminated. MS. BRADY: No, but I think we are headed toward common sense cont,rols to keep guns out of the - MR. DONALDSON: All right, thank you very much, Mrs. Brady. MS. BRADY: Thank you. MR. DONALDSON: Mr. Wayne LaPierre. MR. LAPIERRE: Thank you, Sam. MR. DONALDSON: For being with us tOday. Next, the first interview with the a~thor of the Air Force report on Roswell, Jim McAndrew. (Announcements.) MR. DONALDSON: Two things of note reportedly happened in the New Mexico desert in the 1940s. The first atomic bomb was exploded there, and that was real. And a lot of people believe a spaceship with alien creatures aboard crashed there. But is that real? ". ALIEN (From film, ~~The Day the Earth Stood Still' 'J: We come to visit you in peace. MR. DONALDSON: Hollywood and the American public have ~lw~ys been fascinated by UFOs, and ground zero for 'that fascination 1S Roswell, New Mexico. In July 1947, something fell from the sky and landed in the desert north of Roswell. The nearby Air Force base reported it was a flying disk, a UFO. Hours later, they said no, it was a weather balloon. For 50 years, the controversy has raged over what really happened in the desert that, ARMS Email System Page 60f15 Page 6 of 15
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 50 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.