{"id":1950149,"date":"2023-06-17T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T23:29:26","slug":"congressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman leading UFO hearing following whistleblower claims: &#8216;We&#8217;re taking this matter seriously&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1950149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On June 5, journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal \u2014 who were responsible for the New York Times report published in 2017 regarding the Pentagon\u2019s then-unacknowledged UFO investigation program \u2014 released a story at <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft\/\">The Debrief<\/a> on whistleblower David Grusch.<\/p>\n<p>Grusch, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-come-to-d-c-prison-to-support-jan-6-detainees\/\" title=\"Protesters come to D.C. prison to support Jan. 6 detainees\">decorated military veteran<\/a> and intelligence official, who served in Afghanistan and formerly worked at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has alleged that there are black programs in the U.S. government dedicated to the retrieval and attempted reverse-engineering of vehicles of non-prosaic origin.<\/p>\n<p>Grusch was also the National Reconnaissance Office\u2019s (NRO) representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force beginning in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kean and Blumenthal spoke with numerous intelligence officials who vouched for Grusch\u2019s credibility and integrity, and who have backed up his claims. Journalist Michael Shellenberger has also spoken with intelligence officials who have made similar <a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/us-has-12-or-more-alien-space-craft?utm_source=profile&#038;utm_medium=reader2\">allegations<\/a> to Grusch.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2022, nearly a year after reporting to the Department of Defense Inspector General that certain information relating to UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) was not being provided to Congress, Grusch\u2019s attorney filed a Disclosure of Urgent Concern(s); Complaint of Reprisal to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, under oath, which was later deemed \u201ccredible and urgent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to Grusch\u2019s claims, a Congressional hearing will take place. I recently spoke with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) \u2014 one of the members of the Oversight Committee who will head up the hearing \u2014 in order to gain insight into how it will be conducted and what he expects to find.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: Do you plan to have David Grusch testify at the hearing? And do you plan to have other individuals with whom he\u2019s spoken regarding the allegations he\u2019s made \u2014 including the high-level officials who reportedly talked to him \u2014 testify?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: We would like to get him there. It\u2019s premature to say who we will have there. We\u2019ll release that when we get the okay from the committee chair of everybody that we\u2019ve invited who\u2019s been cleared to come speak.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: Are there plans to have people like former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, National Air and Space Intelligence Center\u2019s (NASIC) Jonathan Grey, or retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive Karl Nell testify?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: We\u2019re waiting on approval for several people \u2014 and then when we get that, we\u2019ll move ahead with firming up a date. We have some ideas, but, you know, we\u2019ve got security concerns and we just want to make sure we have our ducks in a row.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: In Michael Shellenberger\u2019s recent piece, he said that a source told him: \u201cWe have non-disclosure agreements or secrecy agreements that we\u2019re supposed to take to the grave.\u201d Can Congress provide protections for those individuals? And how much has been done with the previous whistleblower protections from the last National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: Well, that\u2019s left up to interpretation. They\u2019re gonna have to have a degree of bravery to come forward with anything because of the lack of trust. Frankly, I don\u2019t trust our Justice Department or a lot of the higher-ups in our intelligence agencies because they have been the problem. And now, they\u2019re coming forward saying that we need to find out what\u2019s going on, when in fact, they know what\u2019s going on. They have all the files. Just release the underacted files and quit with all the nonsense \u2014 because that\u2019s all they\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re smelling billions of dollars in research, and you\u2019ll have every branch of the military and every agency wanting some of those dollars. That\u2019s where we\u2019re headed, I think. They\u2019re smelling dollars, they know they\u2019ve \u2014 they\u2019ve covered this thing up, and the public just wants answers, and that\u2019ll be their next move.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m not going to vote for any more dollars for them. The Pentagon loses over a billion dollars; the Department of Defense is bigger than our Navy. You\u2019ve got more people pushing pencils than are pushing bullets, and that needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: Do you support Senator Kirsten Gillibrand\u2019s amendment that would require that no money be spent on Special Access Programs (SAPs) without being reported to Congress?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: I haven\u2019t read that, but that seems like something I could support. I\u2019d have to read the details of it though.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), as it stands right now, doesn\u2019t seem to have, from what I\u2019ve read, the ability to actually investigate things like the allegations made by Grusch and others like him because they don\u2019t have the necessary clearance to access certain projects. So, will clearances like Title 50 clearance be discussed at all in this hearing?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re gonna get that much into the weeds. I want to talk to people who have seen something and can provide some proof of what\u2019s going on. In fact, if we can disclose some things, some new facts \u2014 but just get the people before us that have seen it, who have great credentials, and just stop with all the nonsense. Nobody cares about these reports, these numbers of reports and all that; they just want to get to the proof. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m after. I\u2019m just after the facts.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: Speaking of proof, I was talking to a colleague of mine and they were lamenting that the only way the ball is gonna be able to move on anything like this is if Congress \u201ckicks down the doors of military bases\u201d where they\u2019re saying these alleged things are \u2014 without notice \u2014 so they can actually get the proof.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: Yeah \u2014 and that\u2019s correct, because as soon as we have a hearing and 12 years later, Congress acts, it\u2019ll already be moved, there won\u2019t be anything there. So we have to \u2014 I\u2019m not going to disclose everything, but we will be in contact with some folks on the proper procedure for handling that legally.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: That was my next question because I was wondering if Congress has the sort of authority and the mechanisms to be able to follow up with the information that\u2019s being provided.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: They do, but they\u2019re so much on the take for all this stuff. They don\u2019t want to rock the big military industrial complex, the people writing the big checks. I mean, we tell Ukraine we\u2019re gonna give them some of our missiles out of our missile defense system, and then we deplete our system, which we know we have to keep at a certain level of readiness. And low and behold, we\u2019ve got to buy billions more dollars in missiles, and it just so happens congresspeople from both parties are heavily invested in these companies. It\u2019s just corruption, and nobody will call it out.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: In the piece from The Debrief, it was said that Grusch \u201cprovided Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs.\u201d Does Congress have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-releases-statement-about-declassifying-intelligence-on-origins-of-covid-19-pandemic\/\" title=\"Biden Releases Statement About Declassifying Intelligence On Origins Of COVID-19 Pandemic\">classified information relating<\/a> to alleged covert programs? And if so, will Congress push to make that public?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: I don\u2019t know. I think that the Intelligence Committee is basically spoon-fed; they don\u2019t really care about this issue. They\u2019ve made statements to me, you know, \u201cBurchett, we\u2019ve got much more important things to worry about.\u201d And you know, we\u2019ve documented 11 or 12 near misses with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-heading-up-ufo-hearing-after-shocking-whistleblower-allegations-were-serious-about-this-issue\/\" title=\"Congressman leading UFO hearing following whistleblower claims: 'We're taking this matter seriously'\">multi-million dollar aircraft<\/a> and our fighting men and women that could lose their lives. To me, something flying in our military air zones that we do not control is something very important. But then again, they\u2019re told not to worry about it by some unelected bureaucrat, and so they don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: Former Senator Harry Reid talked about attempting to get classified approval from the Pentagon to look at certain things and that they wouldn\u2019t allow him to do so. What can Congress effectively change when a small group of powerful people overseeing these alleged black budget projects don\u2019t want their work to be outed?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: We\u2019ve got to change the system \u2014 and you know, talk\u2019s cheap. Everybody puffs themselves up and talks real tough, but the end result is going to have to be: Congress is the government\u2019s checkbook, and we need to stop writing the checks to these departments because they are rouge, they\u2019re unelected bureaucrats, and they are the tail that\u2019s wagging the dog.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: There are allegations that black budget programs outsource some of their work on alleged technology to one or more private aerospace firms. What are your thoughts on that? And will that be something that you\u2019re discussing?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: I believe that\u2019s accurate, and I would hope we would get to the bottom of that \u2014 but that stuff\u2019s so deep, it\u2019s hard to get ahold of. Again, that\u2019s under the corruption within government and it\u2019s so compartmentalized. And, you know, you have these chairmen in both parties that are chairmen just because they can raise money, and to raise the amount of money they\u2019ve raised, they have to be there for a long period of time. And sometimes, their cognitive skills have dwindled and they\u2019re spoon-fed by their staff, who, in fact, might as well just work for the other side. So they just \u2014 it\u2019s just an endless cycle, and we\u2019ve gotta start calling it out.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: I saw you speaking on News Nation about how the previous UFO hearings weren\u2019t all that they could be.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: They were a hoax, man. They were a hoax. You saw a committee spoon-fed. You saw people who were running this so-called investigative agency that couldn\u2019t spell UFO, that had no idea about any of the basic history of the situation in this country. They read Project Blue Book probably, or saw the TV show from the \u201970s, and they quote that as fact \u2014 and preplanned questions.<\/p>\n<p>I was told I was going to be able to ask a question; I was not allowed to. And you had some, in my opinion, very weak-ass video. And Schiff was the only one to ask a question that made any \u2014 he said, \u201cWhat exactly am I looking at?\u201d And he asked, \u201cCan you stop the tape?\u201d And there you had a 20-second tape or something, the guys couldn\u2019t even stop the tape. The most technologically advanced country in the world \u2014 my daughter could\u2019ve stopped that tape if they\u2019d allowed her access to that computer.<\/p>\n<p>They were just checking a box, so they could say, \u201cOh, look what we\u2019re doing, but we\u2019re gonna go back in secret and do our thing.\u201d And people like me don\u2019t get on those committees because I don\u2019t kiss their ass and I don\u2019t raise the money.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Q: What\u2019s your hope for how this hearing will play out?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burchett: I hope we show the American public that we\u2019re serious about this issue \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ioc-president-will-not-add-fuel-to-summer-olympics-cancellation-rumors\/\" title=\"IOC president will \u2018not add fuel\u2019 to Summer Olympics cancellation rumors\">recent poll showed<\/a> that over half the people believe in this \u2014 and that we\u2019ll get a little closer to getting to the bottom of it. And we\u2019ll expose to the American public that this is a cover-up, that we are not being forthcoming, and that there is a group of us that want to make that happen \u2014 and hopefully, we don\u2019t get corrupted.<\/p>\n<p>And our opposition always uses this against us, and they downplay us and put stuff out against us, you know. \u201cOh, they\u2019re worried about little green men and people are starving.\u201d It\u2019s the committee of jurisdiction where this is supposed to happen. We don\u2019t necessarily deal with some of those other issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5, Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, the journalists behind the 2017 New York Times report on the Pentagon&#8217;s undisclosed UFO investigation program, revealed a new story on whistleblower David Grusch. 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