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We asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) about California’s long history of UFO sightings, along with contemporary whistleblower David Grusch. “I don’t know what you’re talking about," Feinstein, the recent former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee , replied. For those who complain we’re bothering a Level 3 convalescent — we’re in 1,000,000% agreement. It’s been appalling watching Feinstein w...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) joins Ask a Pol ’s growing list of federal lawmakers who refuse to even comment on UFO whistleblower David Grusch, even as they’re aware of — and potentially a part of — the investigation into his claims. “I'm on the Intelligence Committee. I'm aware of the matter. I don't have a comment for you at this time,” Ossoff told us some two weeks before Grusch testified in the Hous...

Less than a week before David Grusch testified before the House Oversight Committee, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told Ask a Pol : “We’ve had a lot of whistleblowers, but I wasn’t aware that we had a UFO whistleblower.” Cornyn’s a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I can’t talk about classified information, but I’m not aware of any recovery of aircraft or something like that,” Cornyn said. W...

While skeptical of UFOs, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has many unanswered questions about “unexplained phenomenon going on out there.” The Armed Services Committee member even wonders whether the Pentagon, US military contractors or American adversaries are behind the uptick in UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, to NASA) sightings in recent years. “There are clearly unexplained phenomenon going on...

Besides Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), most all members of the Senate Armed Services Committee aren’t interested — publicly at least — in UFO whistleblower David Grusch , even as the inspector general of the intelligence community deemed his allegations “an urgent and credible threat,” according to Intelligence Committee Vice-Chair Marco Rubio . Ask a Pol has interviewed all 25 members of the Arm...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is infuriated by the leak of UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s medical records. “That’s just disgusting,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “Someone needs to lose their job.” While Burchett says it’s too early to know where the leak came from, he’s vowing to “dig into it” personally. And he’s also planning to enlist the help of House Oversight Committee...

In the RAW: Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is the ranking member, or top Republican, on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which gives him a seat on the Senate Intelligence Committee (ex officio, technically). Please do let us know what you think of Wicker’s exchange with Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo. We’ve left this post raw on purpose; intrigued with your takeaways from it, especially when compared with o...

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...