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What? Confirmed.
UAP Caucus briefing from AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office)
Where? Confirmed.
SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility)
When? Confirmed.
Wednesday — April 17, 2024
1pm EST — 3pm EST
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Unknown (at the moment):
Who from AARO is conducting the briefing?
The question UAP Caucus members are asking…
Specific focus area of briefing?
Fluid.
Which members of Congress plan to attend?
Last minute after a two-week congressional recess, so we’ll see...
Guaranteed:
Ask a Pol will be staking out the briefing (while neglecting other duties…).
ICYMI — Ask a Pol at last SCIF briefing
THIS EPISODE:
Who?
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Congressional UAP Caucus & Oversight
LISTEN: Laslo & Burlison
Ask a Pol asks:
Got any updates on anything?
Key Burlison:
“I don't. [US House Speaker Mike] Johnson has said nothing. He’s had no response,” Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I'm just trying to plow forward with what tools I have, which is why I’m organizing this briefing from AARO in a SCIF. I'm doubtful that we're going to hear the truth from them, but at least, I think, that we just need to keep the ball rolling. We need to keep moving the ball forward.”
Caught our ear:
“In his mind, it's not a priority,” Burlison says of Speaker Johnson’s non-response to the Congressional UAP Caucus request for a UAP Subcommittee.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Eric Burlison
Matt Laslo: “How you doin’ boss?”
Eric Burlison: “Hey. How are you?”
ML: “Have a good recess?”
EB: “Yes. You?”
ML: “I like it when you guys are outta town.”
EB: “I do too!”
ML: “Right?”
They laugh.
ML: “Got any updates on anything?”
EB: “I don't. I don't. I can — Johnson has said nothing.”
ML: “Yeah?”
EB: “He’s had no response.”
ML: “But, I mean, he’s gotta bring FISA, he’s got Ukraine, he's got a motion to vacate hanging over his head...”
EB: “Yeah. I think it's probably — in his mind, it's not a priority.”
ML: “Yeah? How do you guys make it a priority? Or is this the case to give you all the [UAP] subcommittee, so you don't have to go through Dad and Dad?”
*Student? Lost a gig? Hard times? Been there. Got you. No questions asked. Ping us.
EB: “I don't know. I think that for me, I'm just trying to plow forward with what tools I have, which is why I’m, like, organizing this briefing from AARO in a SCIF. I'm doubtful that we're going to hear the truth from them.”
ML: “Yeah?”
EB: “But at least, I think, that we just need to keep the ball rolling.”
ML: “Yeah?”
EB: “We need to keep moving the ball forward.”
ML: “When is that? That briefing?”
EB: “My staff have it.”
ML: “I can ping them.”
EB: “If you want to, ask my staff. It’s next week.”
ML: “Next week?”
EB: “Yeah.”
ML: “Who’s your staffer I should ping on this?”
EB: “Who’s my what?”
ML: “Who’s your staffer I should ping on this?”
EB: “Here. Follow me upstairs, I’ll show you.”
ML: “Oh, I was just gonna email em.”
EB: “Okay. It’s…”
Quick off the record moment so he can pass us his staffer’s name and info.
ML: “Cool, cool. I know the [House email] naming convention. Yeah, I'll ping him. And I'll see you outside the stakeout, if not sooner.”
EB: “Alright.”
ML: “Have a good one.”
EB: “See ya.”
Discussion about this episode
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I wonder if Tim Phillips (acting DirAARO) would be willing to provide David Grusch with written authorization to provide a protected disclosure of the non-UAP SAP data which is inextricably mixed with the UAP SAP data, that Kirkpatrick refused to do. If he is willing (and even has the authority?) then it seems like that would break down the barrier preventing Grusch from providing testimony to AARO.
Oh, and they have to at least try to press whoever AARO sends to provide more information on the object shot down over Deadhorse, AK last February.
New Moskowitz coming after my physical therapy appointment. He tells me they plan to press AARO on Grusch’s clearance (and lack there of).
Crazy thing is Phillips wasn’t even confirmed last I heard.
PSA: You’re the US Congress: AARO is nothing without your power of the purse…
Matt how about you suggest some questions to the staffer like, " is AARO playing word games with Congress?" They have been told by witnesses about UFOs near nuclear sites - did they check it out? Danny Sheehan told them of government photos he saw - again did they check it out? ..... Have them look at this 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/live/M74uFKkdStg?si=iuRE9S87aloCoYVM&t=1450
Ask them to have AARO look at it before they come over and be ready to answer the question. Time to stop playing at being stupid.
Think that’s the question on all the UAP Caucus member’s minds.
Reminds me: NEW Moskowitz coming, hopefully tonight (what day is it? Had to pull another all- nighter last eve…). Physical therapy for bulging discs in back first .
Funny thing is, my PT tells me my back would throb less if I slept more and walked on marble less, but here we are, Congress…
AARO likely going to take a stab at obfuscating to carry the Executive Branch water to sweep this under the rug. Sounds like from Admiral Tim G. And others that this is going to be tough to do this with though.
*he’s not even confirmed yet!!!