Questions remain 16 months after dual raids on Area 51 website creator 

The pentagon can't account for trillions of dollars yet congress is always threatening to yank my social security!!!

The whole “national security” excuse is beyond worn out. It’s a catch-all for giving the gubmint’s Gestapo cover to do anything it wants without following due process. It’s disgusting.

The most successful marketing scam in this country was the thinking that people here are "free".

Lawsuit. You can’t have a classified warrant. That’s an oxymoron. Hopefully he names each agent involved personally and gets their pensions

Five years to process or prosecute! That is not due process at all!

Area 51 guarded with deadly force US border not so much

Wow, how convenient to be able to have a warrent completely blacked out.

They blacked out the search warrant. That’s illegal. This guy has a civil rights lawsuit waiting for him to act on it.

“It’s not our national security that’s being protected, it’s theirs” The Why Files quote that’s on the money

Give the man his 32,000 back. If the government thinks he's a spy, he's a spy hiding in plain sight and advertising publicly for 20 years what he's looking at. Like thousands of other journalists.

4 years, 11 months and 364 days later. Feds: 'Nevermind'. What a crock

He must be onto something and inconveniently accurate

This is disturbing. If the court documents are that heavily redacted, then our government needs to send in a public defender who has security clearance. This is BS.

You struck a cord bruh. Something you discovered wasnt supposed to be found out. Keep up the good work.

Imagine how much worse they’d treat us if we are foolish enough to disarm?

They're never going to get a reason for the raids . They wanted to intimidate him and seize his equipment to see what he had on his computerts ,its an absolute shame .

He got his hands on a picture of something hot and doesn't have the slightest idea as to what it is.

If this was national security and no charges have yet to be placed, the federal judge who signed the orders needs to be sent to jail for life. The buck needs to stop at the courts who gave the permission. Deterrence is the only thing that seems to work. Fines mean nothing as others pay it on their behalf.

He should consider himself fortunate that he is alive. What a mess.

When journalism is considered spying by the government, you’ve already lost. Time For The People to Act.

Gee, I wonder why anyone would mistrust the government.

The judge that signed the warrant and the clerk that filed it, get a certified copy of their bond and put a lien on it until you get your answers. Be prepared if they try to intimidate you after this because the judge and clerk can no longer act under/on behalf of the government. If they claim the right to work under immunity, it’ll be under “color of law” and not the government. Another gem whenever you go to court, make sure you have a certified copy of every public servants bond in the courtroom and file it under your case with the clerk. When they ask why you say because I haven’t seen the orderbook of the courtroom and I don’t know if I’m dealing with public servants or a person acting under color of law.

Been there, done that. I was yanked out of a classroom within a military base. Questioned on a mysterious event, no explanation, with intimidation for an afternoon. They finally said I could go. Still no explanation. They probably grabbed the wrong person. No apology.

And our elected representatives just reauthorized FISA, just freaking wonderful.

I can see the FBI and others breaking in on a civilian but the OSI off base and a non military person? In my day, the OSI mainly focused on who was doing drugs and who was gay.

They (the gov) need to pay for damages ASAP.

I’m pretty impressed y’all covered this story. ❤

That’s absolutely ridiculous!! Poor guy, now $32k in debt for nothing. Let’s just hope he doesn’t end up found having committed “suicde”

Never a hint of violence from this man but they kicked in his door ready to use violence!!!

Which federal judge signed the warrant?

Imagine owning a company and a certain group that you pay for tell you "we can't tell you where your money is going or what is actually going on". That's exactly what's going on here. The gubment is supposed to work for us but it's not been that way in over 100 years

It's too bad that this guy didn't set up hidden cameras with a live feed when this was going down. He should transfer all his data and store it at a secure location.

This is not right

If it was a valid warrant it should have clearly stated what criminal violation was being investigated. It doesn't sound like that was included, or it may have been redacted. I don't see how the warrant could be considered valid without that being made clear to the property owner.

Heres come the men in black 🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🕶

"...and what the Feds were seeking" Dominance and control.

Typical gestapo tactics.

You need to file a lawsuit against them for breaking and entering in a home without a warrant

He needs to get a good lawyer and sue them!!!

This is bullshit

When you fear integrity and accountability, you are no longer the good guys.

They served a warrant and said he was a fugitive, yet no charges were filed. That sounds like a fake excuse to gain entrance to steal his electronics .

Find that federal judge that signed off for that terrorism.

Sounds like he needs a better lawyer.

it feels very wrong that they can do this to you and redact everything even to you and your lawyers once an action like this takes place, they should be required to release the information Im truly concerned about the direction this country has taken in the last several decades and its only ramping up exponentially I just want to know why im truly curious theres more to this than power and security and control, something weird is going on across the globe Knapps one of the few covering it professionally, we all owe him our gratitude

A foreigner, collecting intel, from a classified military testing facility... My only question is why did they wait 20 years...🤔

Funny how a military base can be guarded with lethal force. But my home ….. not allowed.

Sue the people who kidnapped and damaged your property

He saw something he wasn't supposed to see....

Who's the Judge that signed it?

Next time you know what to do when your home is broken into. There is no law against protecting your home from criminals.

The fact that they care enough about his website could mean he's on to something. If here completely out of his mind they'd have no reason to search him.

I just love when our own government breaks the law. That’s such BS that they haven’t been forced to tell him why they were even there let alone stealing his belongings!

Why didn’t they just knock on his door?

He cannot have materials pertaining to a facility that doesn't exist. Because if it does exist there are some toxic poisoning, improper disposal and cancer lawsuits awaiting trial...

Overreach by the govt. absolutely outrageous.

Why did the Pentagon fail the financial audit?

We no longer live in a republic. How many more thousands of Americans does this need to happen to until the DOJ is dissolved?

Great reporting, George!👍 I sure hope he gets his property back. And compensation for the damages-

freedom is a state of mind yall stay free

This is how they treat a citizen who's doing nothing wrong... Time for some govt reform.

Wow. Just the other day I found out about this guy’s site and wondered how he hadn’t been seized or compromised, and then today I see this. They definitely showed up to find out if he had actually discovered something they don’t want anyone to know.

Well now the government really helped this guy lend some credibility to his website! I bet visits to his site went up 1000%

This is BS crazy. Everyone should go to this guys site and help him out..

To all concerned, we have learned a lot of lessons from this....some good and some bad. We appreciate the support!

I have had similar encounters with OSI myself and they are by far the lowest rung of law enforcement.

The feds were hoping the owner would be some gun nut and get aired out but they found nothing.

2nd A! This is tyranny! 🤬

"Autorized by a Federal Judge" When my 2002 Lorain County, Ohio shooting was covered up, the DA became US Attorney and then Federal Magistrate quickly afterwards in Cleveland. Shame Shame Gregory White.

Lawsuit.

This is like our parents saying because I said so. How do you give a redacted search warrant?

I hope this gentleman and others in similar situations can be responsibly compensated. Although nothing will ever erase the psychological trauma they've been through.

The only thing I can think is that something showed a test flight but everyone already knows that base is used to test military aircraft and prototypes.

Perhaps he should set up claymores around his house

"Reasons of National Security"... the standard U.S. Government cop out.

The government needs to pay this man and return his property. They are thrives and they need to tell him why they raided him. The judge needs to be in trouble for signing the warrant.

He found out something he wasn’t supposed to but he doesnt know which secret. And they are not going to tell him.

Our borders used to be protected like area 51👽

Yaay, Knapp! Still given 'em hell.

BEST KNOW, BUT NO ONE TRYS GOING ONTO THE BASE BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS BETTER. WHY CAN OUR COUNTRYS SOUTHERN BORDER ENJOY THE SAME SECURITY.

Somebody needs to set up a go fund me for this guy ASAP! There's so many things wrong about their actions against him it's redonculous!

To correct the unecessary Google/RU-vid blue box, the official name is Edwards Air Force Base North. Are 51 is a large rectangle of land once used for nuclear bomb tests. In the Eastern quarter, there is the Groom Lake air base, where experimental aircraft are assembled and tested.

Let's talk to the judge, on the warrant.

The strangest thing iv watched this last year or the year before what's going on

If it was me they would not have been able to keep the website down.

Why not refer to the website correctly? It's dreamlandresort (singular), but the reporter keeps saying dreamlandresorts (plural).

All he has to do is re write all his losses and research that's why never keep your research at a linkable place keep all your backups there in a faraday box.

Wildcard line youre on the air! Wait, have you tried the new CCrane radio?

We moved all spacecraft and little people remains to another location

Seems sus, they knew something

Well you found something for sure that they didn't want anyone to see. More than likely it wasn't anything obvious but something that if seen by the wrong people would put 2 and 2 together to make 4.

Now we know there is something being hidden.

All that for a website? Federal agents should not be surprised when they get blown away by an armed citizen one of these days. We have a legal right to do so.

Thanks George! This put dreamlandresort on the map! Can’t believe a search like that took place. He should have a case against them.

Need to dump that girl. She gave you up when tricked. Ride or die.

there is no true unbiased ethical processes done today. for this reason there will ALWAYS be 'unanswered questions' about both area 5* and these types of harassments of anyone interested in the subject matter. if we had full truth and ethical processes, none of this would be shrouded in secrecy and answers that never come easily

How’re you gonna serve someone a warrant but withhold 39 pages of it and the couple you do serve are heavily redacted?

This is horrible. Like I could say so many things how this is wrong but I'm just going to say how horrible to do this to a person.

So they could just “say” that everything he owns is related and just take it all?

The government has some explaining to do!!! Makes me thankful I’m Canadian 😊