(NewsNation) — Despite claims that the government illegally leaked UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s medical records to news outlet The Intercept, the reporter behind the story says he received the information on Grusch through publicly available law enforcement records.
Grusch’s claims that the U.S. government has secretly been in possession of nonhuman spacecraft sparked international attention. Earlier this week, Grusch, a former Air Force officer and intelligence official, said in a statement to NewsNation that he learned The Intercept intended to publish an article highlighting struggles he has faced in the past with post-traumatic stress disorder, grief and depression.
Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, who initially reported on the story on Grusch’s claims for NewsNation, told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo that he believed the government was behind the effort to release Grusch’s medical records in an effort to smear his credibility.
However, Ken Klippenstein, the reporter who wrote the story, said this isn’t the case, and that the records he was given were neither confidential or medical.
“The UFO whistleblower is accusing me of using confidential medical records leaked to me by the intelligence community,” Klippenstein said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Every part of that is false. I used publicly available police records I obtained under FOIA.”
FOIA stands for Freedom of Information Act,...
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