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Episode in the RAW: Many forget (like me, initially), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), is an ex officio member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.* On July 19, I asked Chair Reed if he had looked into UFO whistleblower David Grusch. “No, I have not,” Reed replies. We then briefly — but tellingly — discuss Chinese spy balloons and UAPs, as Reed invites me o...

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) knows more about UFO whistleblower David Grusch than he’ll discuss publicly. Ask a Pol caught up with Lankford — a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee — on Tuesday, July 11 as he was leaving a rare all-Senators classified briefing held underground in the Senate SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility). In fact, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says...

Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to answer when Asked about UFO whistleblower David Grusch, the veteran and former US intelligence official who testified before the House Oversight Committee just last Wednesday , the 26th.  Just a few hours after Grusch testified I bump into Leader Schumer and his usual entourage of security and people in unrema...

Since Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans booted Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) off the Intelligence Committee at the start of this Congress, it’s become harder for Schiff to investigate UFOs, including when it comes to whistleblower David Grusch .  Still, Schiff tells Ask a Pol he’s got lingering questions .  “The ones that are most interesting to me are the ones where the instruments have meas...

By Camila Aponte and Noah Kolenda* Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s interview on July 18, 2023 with Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) — United States Secretary of the Interior (2017-2019) — slightly edited for clarity. *hire them; The LCB’s (Laslo Congressional Bureau) summer interns extraordinaire. Matt Laslo: “Have you gotten satisfactory answers from the Pentagon, and all them, on the Chinese...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s lead Republican co-author on the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 , Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), tells Ask a Pol, the phrasing “non-human intelligence” — which their amendment uses 20 times — was on purpose, even as it’s confused some folks. “It was not by accident. Let's put it that way,” Rounds told Matt Laslo on Thursday, July 20....

Last Thursday, July 27, the day after UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified before the House Oversight Committee, Ask a Pol brought it up to Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chair Marco Rubio (R-FL) who hadn’t caught the testimony but was quick to say he wasn’t dismissing it.  “We’re not ignoring it,” Rubio says, adding the Senate Intelligence Committee is trying to deal with it “in a very di...

It’s not just the House Freedom Caucus looking into UFOs. Senators are investigating UFO whistleblower David Grusch too.  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) exclusively tells Ask a Pol that she’s requested a private meeting with Grusch, the former US intelligence official who testified before the US House Oversight Committee last week . And she wants Grusch to sit down with All-domain Anomaly Resoluti...

Originally published June 27, 2023 (on Laslo’s old Patreon). Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner says the federal government has previously kept Special Access Programs (SAPs) hidden from Congress, albeit accidentally. In our exclusive interview, when asked if he thinks there’s any credence to UAP whistleblower David Grusch’s claim that the federal government is hiding a covert UAP pro...

originally published June 23, 2023 (on Laslo’s old Patreon) There’s one massive difference between the latest Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP; formerly UFO) whistleblower and similar ones who’ve come before, according to Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-Chair Marco Rubio: The inspector general vetted former US intelligence officer David Grusch , found him credible and then referred him to...

Ask a Pol caught up with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), chair of the newly empowered House Freedom Caucus, during UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee this week.  As you’ll hear, Perry was traversing a skinny, old school escalator system tucked inside the Rayburn House Office Building, which is where the UFO hearing took place earlier this week. The escalator’s are...

The congressional investigation into UFOs may be the most bipartisan thing in Washington these days, which was on display during whistleblower David Grusch’s testimony earlier this week.   Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)  isn’t on the Oversight Committee, but he stopped by the hearing on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, to NASA). While Cohen’s buddies with his fellow Tennessean, Reps. Tim Burchett...

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) is new to Congress, but he’s fitting right in. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee but was eagerly welcomed by Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) for this week’s Oversight Committee investigation into UFOs.  As the freshman left the committee room Wednesday, Ogles told Ask a Pol’ s Matt Laslo that testimony from UFO whistleblower David Gru...

This week’s House UFO hearing was accompanied by plenty of eye rolls and un-funny alien puns, but Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) walked away from it energized and eager to continue investigating whistleblower David Grusch’s claims. “He said he’d give me a hostile witness list,” Mace exclusively told Ask a Pol as she was exiting the hearing. “That’s the biggest thing out of that hearing.”  Mace is related...

As the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is constantly searching for answers. And for the first time in his storied and studious life, he’s applying his tenacious investigative skills to UFOs, which was on display in yesterday’s public hearing. “There [were] a lot of people getting in touch with me, telling me I had to come and check it out. I did what I could to re...

In an exclusive interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tells Ask a Pol , while UFOs aren’t the talk of the town in her Bronx district, she attended the House Oversight Committee’s UFO hearing because it overlaps with her efforts to reign in the military industrial complex. “Probably less so in my district, but I do believe that there are intersections here that are very relevant to work t...

UFO sleuths across the globe were upset, confused and even distraught when on the eve of the House UAP hearing, Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) were told they weren’t chairing the hearing. The wildcard chair now seems to be an ally. The relatively unknown, quiet-mannered Wisconsinite, Rep. Glenn Grothman, hasn’t been active in all the competing UFO inquiries swirling about o...

On the eve of the UFO hearing, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer angered #UFOTwitter and frustrated Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) when he alerted the pair they wouldn’t be chairing the hearing—even after he charged them with leading his committee’s investigation into UFO whistleblower David Grusch.  That was old news by Wednesday morning.  “I don’t care about all...

Rep. Tim Burchett—known as one of the nicest guys in Congress—is p*****. While he tells Ask a Pol he’s not calling Oversight Committee Chair James Comer a liar, Burchett feels lied to. “ He told you —he told everybody—I was gonna chair it, and now they're saying, ‘Oh, well, you know, he's gonna get to do it—he just doesn't, he just doesn't get the gavel,” Burchett tells Ask a Pol . “I mean, what d...

The House Oversight Committee may be holding a public hearing on UFOs later this week, but that doesn’t mean its chair, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), is well-versed on the claims of the whistleblower at the center of it all.  “Have you looked into the claims of the whistleblower, David Grusch ?” we asked Comer at the Capitol Thursday.  “No,” Comer replied. “I’m coming to learn. I know nothing about thi...

Before then-President Barack Obama tapped Max Baucus to be America’s 11th ambassador to China, he represented Montana in the US Senate for 36 years—all but three of which overlapped with former Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 30 year stint representing Nevada.  While Reid was majority leader, Baucus chaired the powerful Finance Committee, which meant the two spent more time than most together behind...

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin—Democrat’s second in command in the Senate—says he’s never discussed UFOs (or UAPs ) with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Though Durbin says Schumer’s predecessor, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, discussed them “all the time.”  “There's this fellow named Bigelow in New Mexico who Harry used to always talk about,” Durbin recounts, as him and his security detail are...

Rough transcripts of exclusive interviews with 5 of the 6 original sponsors of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s new UAP amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act are attached. A senior aide of Sen. Schumer tells Ask a Pol : “It’s not related to Grusch.” They then sent along this quote (which we believe is the same one they released in the initial announcement, but we have to run an...

The witness list for next week’s highly anticipated UFO hearing in the House of Representatives remains a closely guarded secret, but a senior congressional source—one who’s been active and at the table throughout all stages of the investigation—confirmed to Ask a Pol that UAP whistleblower David Grusch is scheduled to be on the dais.  While Grusch is lined up, the hearings co-chairs, Reps. Anna P...

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) is an original cosponsor of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s new UFO amendment .  Last Thursday, July 13, when Ask a Pol spoke with Rounds on the eve of the new amendment being released publicly, the South Dakota Republican — a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee — struggled to remember UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s name and said he wasn’t too familiar with...