Rep. Burlison requests access to "all material and information ... relating to non-earth origin or exotic UAP material."
In a letter obtained by Adj. Pr Matt Laslo for Ask A Pol, new information has come to light regarding initiatives by elected US officials to establish an independent investigative body on UAP.
Addressed to House Speaker Johnson and Democratic Leader Jeffries and written by Representative Burlison, the letter begins by referencing a whistleblower testimony. Later on, Burlison confirms that he is referring to David Grusch, the sole whistleblower who publicly stated under oath that the U.S. had an illegal crash retrieval program. This letter arguably reinforces the legitimacy of his testimony, contradicting indirect attacks made by former director of AARO, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, in a report published last week. In that report, Kirkpatrick criticized whistleblowers, alleging that they were only repeating second or third-hand information and misinterpreting it.
The letter continues, stating that there is "new evidence pertaining to the existence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." This statement from a U.S. elected official is intriguing: what is this evidence that led him to write an official letter to the Speaker of the House?
Wasting little time, Burlison requests the creation of a subcommittee under the oversight committee's authority "to investigate 'any matter' at 'any time' under House Rule X," specifically targeting the program exposed by Grusch.
Mr. Grusch revealed the existence of a UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program which has been illegally withheld from Congress. In July 2022, the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) found Mr. Grusch's complaint to be 'credible and urgent.'
Burlison then accuses both the Department of Defense and the Intelligence community of attempting to "evade" Congress' scrutiny, constituting a "major barrier." Such an accusation from an elected official of the Oversight committee is exceptionally harsh. Furthermore, he adds that such "lack of cooperation" deepens "public mistrust," and that both the DoD and IC's lack of transparency have "a long history."
Another argument used by Burlison points to a blatant failure of the DoD. With a governmental body failing its financial audit for the sixth time and unable to account for more than half of its assets, Representative Burlison states: "it is unclear how much U.S. taxpayer funds are being spent on analyzing and investigating UAP."
Finally, Rep. Burlison requests that:
the select subcommittee be fully staffed,
be granted access to all material and information, both classified and unclassified, provided or derived from the Federal Government relating to UAP that is currently or formerly protected by any form of special access or restricted access,
be granted access to all material and information, both classified and unclassified, possessed by the Federal Government relating to non-earth origin or exotic UAP material.
This last part is particularly interesting as it is rare for an elected official to use the term "non-Earth origin or exotic UAP material," the latter being used for the first time by former AATIP director Lue Elizondo.
Interestingly, Elizondo seems to be the target of attacks in the AARO report:
AARO assesses that the inaccurate claim that the USG is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is hiding it from Congress is, in large part, the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence.
Considering that both Christopher Mellon and Lue Elizondo orchestrated the classified congressional briefings on UAP post-2017, to find “exotic” in an official letter to the Speaker of the House a few days after the AARO report is quite interesting indeed.
Translated from French by Guillaume Fournier Airaud
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