So please bear with me here. I see a lot of people viewing McCasland as a key figure because of his Wright Pat connection (which is valid), however the role that seemingly could be even more dangerous from a disclosure perspective is the fact that he was the Director of Special Programs in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from 2009 to 2011, which also made him the Executive Secretary of SAPOC, the Special Access Program Oversight Committee. So, for transparency: SAPOC is the single body that approves, manages, and terminates every Special Access Program in the entire Department of Defense, including black programs and compartmented projects (if genuinely every SAP). It's chaired by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, with permanent members including the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I). The Executive Secretary is the person who actually manages the flow of documentation, meeting agendas, and records for this body. So McCasland wasn't just sitting in a room with access to secrets. He was managing the documentation, the meeting agendas, the records, and the access lists for the committee that oversees all of it. He decided who got read in and who didn't, so he basically held the keys to who got access and who didn't to these Special Access Programs. So, let's go deeper. I tried to build a complete list of everyone who has held this role. Here's how far I got: 1994-1995: Brig. Gen Michael Kostelnik 1995-2009: Unknown. That's a 14 year gap covering the entire post-Cold War era and the War on Terror. 2009-2011: Maj. Gen William McCasland (currently missing) 2011-2013: Maj. Gen Thomas Masiello 2013-2016: Unknown. This gap covers the period when AATIP was allegedly running. 2016-2018: Maj. Gen John Horner 2018-2019: Unknown. 2019-2021: Lt. Gen Dan Caine 2021-2024: Maj. Gen David Abba (retired Nov 2024) 2024-present: Maj. Gen Derek O'Malley That's roughly 30 years and I can only account for maybe half of it. Also, of these people: Thomas Masiello (2011-2013) went to Northrop Grumman as Acting Corporate Chief Technology Officer. Dan Caine (2019-2021) went to the CIA as Associate Director for Military Affairs, and is now the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking military officer in the country and principal military advisor to the President. He held the SAPCO role during the exact period the UAP Task Force was active. So the guy who controlled SAP access during the UAP Task Force era is now the top military advisor to the President who just ordered declassification. And the guy who had the role before McCasland went straight to one of the contractors whistleblowers say are holding the materials. I'm not saying that proves anything, but that revolving door is exactly the kind of thing Congress should be looking at. Also, private corporations are immune to FOIA requests. So if you want to move something out of reach of disclosure, you move it from the government side to a contractor. The question nobody is asking is whether any SAPOC Executive Secretary authorized that kind of transfer. Because that decision would be traceable through congressional subpoena even if the material itself is sitting in a private lab somewhere. Also, in the 2016 WikiLeaks dump of Podesta's emails, Tom DeLonge wrote that McCasland "not only knows what I'm trying to achieve, he helped assemble my advisory team." Think about what that means. McCasland wasn't a passive source leaking info. He was actively choosing who got brought into the conversation and who didn't. That's the same gatekeeping function he had at SAPOC, just applied informally. submitted by /u/Previous_Apartment_2 [link] [comments]