Who?
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Oversight Committee; Congressional UAP Caucus
LISTEN: Laslo & Burlison
Ask a Pol asks:
What happened with your plan to hire UFO whistleblower David Grusch?
Key Burlison:
“What we determined is that he really wouldn’t have as much authority as a staffer, an individual staffer, for me per se, like, if I hired him directly. The other important thing is it would be difficult to hire him to take up one role / position in a congressional office with very few for that specific purpose. So I was trying to get him to be a shared role, but even then we’ve determined that he would be limited as to what he can do,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “We need a better committee, a committee that has dedicated staff. Otherwise we’re gonna continue to just fumble around in the dark.”
ICYMI — Burlison post-AARO briefing this spring
Caught our ear per last classified AARO briefing:
“The more I reflect on it, the more I realize that the key takeaway is that they didn’t have answers and they didn’t have data for two of the biggest UAP events in recent history,” Burlison says. “What they did was they showed us a lot of known UAP events and they debunked them. And I felt like they adequately, in my mind, I felt like they adequately did that.”
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AARO caught Burlison’s ear:
“I found it interesting that they say that there’s nothing top secret about extraterrestrial UFOs. The only thing that is top secret is any of our technology that might have been involved,” Burlison tells us. “So if we had devices that recorded it or, you know, captured the footage or there was radar or whatever, all of that is top secret…they were pretty adamant about that and that their attitude is, ‘Look, if we find something we’re gonna make it public, but so long as it doesn’t compromise our technology.’”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Eric Burlison
SCENE: After casting his last vote of the week on the House floor, Burlison’s walking back to his office from the US Capitol (all the metallic bangs in the background are security barriers lifting up and down as members of the House rush to the airport).
Matt Laslo: “How you doing?”
Eric Burlison: “Hey.”
ML: “Been too long.”
EB: “It has. You caught both of us — me and [Rep. Tim] Burchett.”
We interviewed Burchett on the way in, and after we start talking to Burlison he disappeared.
ICYMI — “Get ready”
ML: “Do you — whatever happened to potentially hiring [David] Grusch?”
EB: “Well, I could only do it under a subcommittee — under a committee.”
ML: “Oh yeah?”
EB: “And we — at the end of the day we can’t get [House Speaker Mike] Johnson to give us a committee.”
ML: “Yeah? Do you think some of that might change post-election or…?”
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