Since May of this year, Marco Rubio has served in a dual role as President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. As such, it is significant that Rubio believes that elements within the US government have recovered technology from a nonhuman intelligence, reverse-engineered it, and let private military contractors take control of it in ways that could be undermining national security and result in a Pearl Harbor-like event. "The real risk in transferring technology that is not useful to us today to a corporate entity over decades," says Rubio, "is that the corporate entity comes to basically possess and control access to it for their own purposes, not for the purposes of national security." Rubio directly references aliens in the context of government secrecy. "I think there's this assumption that presidents can walk into the Oval Office on day one and say, 'All right, take me to Roswell. Show me the alien bodies.' That really is a naive understanding of how our government works. Even presidents have often been operating on a need-to-know basis." "We have people that have very high clearances," said Rubio, "who have come forward with some claims about the US having in the past recovered exotic materials and then we reverse-engineered those materials to make advances in our own defenses and technologies. They signed agreements that they would face jail time, or [that] it would cost them their lives if they spoke out."