Ross Coulthart: Is democracy being kept in the dark?

Ross Coulthart of NewsNation raises a question about democratic transparency and the power of the national security state. He asks what would happen if officials kept presidents in the dark about contact with nonhuman beings, and what legal basis could allow them to do so.

The clip poses this as a question; it does not establish that such a concealment has occurred or identify a specific legal basis. It is a short segment from NewsNation’s Reality Check.