When you understand the movie, or the book it was based on, you will no longer consider it a comedy. It is a terrifying dip into a government program devoted to psychological warfare.
There was never any program to use ESP for spying. There is, instead, a program that--in one of its projects--sought to convince Americans that ESP spying had been attempted. The project was a massive success: most people still believe that happened. There are still DoD people who continue to insist it was attempted, which means the project is still running.
The program is ongoing. It was involved in capturing Noriega in Panama. It was the source of the torture program in Afghanistan and Iran. It probably orchestrated the pundit-sphere's rabid insistence on invading Iraq despite all the evidence that there were no WMDs, and that the invasion would be a massive failure.
The same program probably is running the Tictacs/UFO hoax, today, for reasons unknown. Possibly it is just another exercise, like the ESP thing; military programs are obliged to demonstrate their readiness frequently if they want continued funding.
The Iraq invasion was not, for some people, a failure: it transferred, ultimately, $5T from the American people into many newly-minted billionaires' pockets, some of whom have become reliable campaign financers. Secret programs breed corruption.
There was never any program to use ESP for spying. There is, instead, a program that--in one of its projects--sought to convince Americans that ESP spying had been attempted. The project was a massive success: most people still believe that happened. There are still DoD people who continue to insist it was attempted, which means the project is still running.
The program is ongoing. It was involved in capturing Noriega in Panama. It was the source of the torture program in Afghanistan and Iran. It probably orchestrated the pundit-sphere's rabid insistence on invading Iraq despite all the evidence that there were no WMDs, and that the invasion would be a massive failure.
The same program probably is running the Tictacs/UFO hoax, today, for reasons unknown. Possibly it is just another exercise, like the ESP thing; military programs are obliged to demonstrate their readiness frequently if they want continued funding.
The Iraq invasion was not, for some people, a failure: it transferred, ultimately, $5T from the American people into many newly-minted billionaires' pockets, some of whom have become reliable campaign financers. Secret programs breed corruption.