Who?
Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) — Defense Subcommittee of Appropriations Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Boozman
Ask a Pol asks:
You guys on the Appropriations Committee are in charge of funding AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office ?
Key Boozman:
“I don't know, to be honest, I don't know,” Sen. Boozman exclusively tells Ask a Pol.
Caught our ear:
“I really haven't [followed the House UAPs investigation],” Sen. Boozman tells us.
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ICYMI — Ask a Pol broke AARO news this week
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. John Boozman
SCENE: Sen. Boozman and a young reporter rocking a UNC Chapel Hill lanyard for his press pass are chatting NCAA sports for a couple minutes as Laslo waits to talk UAP funding with the senior defense appropriator.
Man: “Thank you for letting me bother you with basketball.”
Matt Laslo: “You're on Defense Appropriations, right?”
John Boozman: “Yeah.”
ML: “You guys in charge of funding AARO?”
Boozman doesn’t readily know the name ‘AARO.’
ML: “It's the All-domain Anomaly Office or whatever. The UFO stuff.”
JB: “I don't know. To be honest, I don't know.”
ML: “It doesn't come up as a line item? It probably just falls within the broader Pentagon budget?”
JB: “I'm not — to be honest, I don't know.”
ML: “Interesting. Have you followed at all the investigation on that over in the House?”
JB: “If you'll — no, I haven’t. I really haven't. If you'll — you know, if you want background...”
ML: “Ping the office?”
JB: “…ping the office and just — one of my guys will know.”
ML: “Cool. Tell em you sent me.”
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Oh shit. That’s my home state senator. Guess who I’m going to be bothering when I go back home
Depending on DoD side, if the money at all flows from a above top secret compartmentalizated budget, then he may not actually know. Given many DoD UAP/UFO projects are black budget, and depending how much they actually cost could account for the money that goes 'missing' in the Pentagon's accountaing department (which has failed all 6 financial audits its had). It may really be the reality this many US Congress members, US Senators, and other US Elected Representatives, are not only in the dark about these programs, their history, their success, their progress, their failures, who authorized them, who approved it, but they especially do not have even a thread of an idea exactly how many US tax dollars have been constantly sucked into this black hole over the past 60+ years? Just how big is this black hole? Billions? Trillions? Is this a hidden supermassive black hole? We know of the Senators and Congress members and their donors who likely are responsible in gutting the 2024 NDAA UAP Disclosure bill submitted by Majority Leader Schumer. Yet even those responsible for gutting the bill in the 2024 NDAA aren't fully read in on absolutely everything. This Congress and Senate to go down as some of the most unproductive and most dysfunctional in US history. 'Ding! Ding! Ding!' Free historical brownie points?! And not just any, double historical!? This would be mega huge addition for campaign trail bragging rights and boost in votes! So why isn't their more noise about it? Delay in connecting the dots? Threats? Bribes/"unusually" large campaign trail donations (especially from US defense contractors, like the ones directly involved in the ongoing 60+ year coverup or adjacent black budget programs & projects)? I understand there are a lot of issues in the world domestic and abroad, yet on most of those topics are partisan, some I agree need addressing now, and well some of it frankly, I find to seemingly exist for the purpose of division or driving us in circles. I recall a chair member stating that the impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden was priority focus, which I think is just smoke for a few reasons, 1.) their impeachment efforts didn't hold enough water for a conviction to stand, 2.) every elected politician should be put under a microscope so we should have financially honest officials to begin with. So how to move forward? Flounder a bunch of wasted time and energy on something that really might not change much about the upcoming election? Or raise the priority level UAP/UFO, make use of the current pool of whistleblowers coming forward and those who spoke once already such as Mr.Grusch, hold hearings, strengthen current investigations, and achieve disclosure, legislative change, make human history, better the US government restoring a little transparency, something that would greatly impact the election? Sometimes I wonder what ripple effects on society will come from disclosure, and I ask our politcians and US public to ponder this too. I'm making this issue an election issue and I believe everyone else should too, just as David Grusch suggested in the News Nation exclusive. It's a way to bring this issue to the forefront of our politicians minds and have them do something. To make this topic an election issue is a big carrot on a stick. But hey, enough of my mental rambling. Keep up the killer journalism Matt!