Who?
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Member, Oversight Committee, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets & Congressional UAP Caucus
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Ask a Pol asks:
After last week’s public UAP hearing, what’s next for the Secrets Task Force and the ongoing House UFO investigation?
Is Burlison the new AARO? He’s on whistleblower duty…
“I think that we have a list of names that I'm going to try to, like, reach out to first,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “And then if they if they become, like, resistant then they might go on the subpoena list.”
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NEWS — UAP Caucus demands answers:
Any update on your plan to use interrogatories to dislodge potential secrets hiding in federal agencies?
Key Burlison:
“The letters were dropped,” Burlison tells us.* “We sent it to, like, four different — two agencies and two private companies.”
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*Definition of interrogatory:
Congress and interrogatories:
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Caught our ear:
“The [Oversight] Committee staff ended up dropping a lot of the specific requests that we had put in there, that David Grusch specifically wrote,” Burlison says. “They dropped a lot of it and just made it a generic request, and so their view was that it positions them better legally for getting the information than if they have to subpoena by making it more generic in the first attempt.”
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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 (9-17-2025)
SCENE: UAP Caucus veteran Reps. Eric Burlison and Andy Ogles are chatting while walking up to the US Capitol together during Wednesday’s only vote series in the US House of Representatives.
Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo greets them before pulling Burlison aside for this exclusive interview…
Matt Laslo: "Look at this motley crew."
Burlison and Ogles smile.
Eric Burlison: “Hey Matt. How are you?”
ML: “One of you got a quick second?”
Burlison approaches Laslo, Ogles heads up Capitol steps.
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ML: “I was sick as a dog last week, so I missed you. How are…?”
EB: ”You missed the big hearing!”
ML: “I know. I listened to it, but I was sick the whole week. How do you think it went? What's your big takeaway from it?”
EB: “I thought it was amazing.”
ML: “Yeah?”
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EB: “It's a ton of work to put those together, and I don't know that people understand how much work it is. Like navigating, getting the witnesses, getting them prepared, getting them the logistics, the timing of it. Like getting them all at the same schedule.”
ML: “Yeah.”
EB: ”it was a lot of work to get put that thing together.”
ML: “Herding cats with jobs.”
Laslo laughs.
EB: “That's right. It was herding cats. And then when you add on top of it government bureaucracy and paperwork…”
ML: “Yeah? Do you, like, where do you guys go next? To military contractors?”
EB: ”So, um, I think that we have a list of names that I'm going to try to, like, reach out to first.”
ML: “Nice.”
A congressman wraps up an on-camera interview at base of Capitol steps.
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EB: “And then if they if they become, like, resistant then they will they might go on the subpoena list.”
ML: “Is that for a SCIF briefing or is this another public one?”
EB: “Probably for SCIF briefings.”
ML: “Yeah?”
EB: “Because I think the list of people — these are people that haven't come forward. Right. So, like, they're not going to feel comfortable.”
ML: “Oh yeah? Interesting.”
EB: “Alright.”
ML: “Do you…”
EB: “Thanks, Matt.”
ML: “Wait — one last question on what you were telling me, the interrogatories?”
EB: ”Yeah.”
ML: “What's up with that? Are they coming?”
EB: “They, the letters were dropped — um, there's a whole story there.”
Burlison almost rolls his eyes (which means we’ll be circling back to get details on this “story”…).
ML: “And at a whole bunch of different agencies?”
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EB: ”Um, we sent it to, like, four different — two agencies and two private companies.”
ML: “Interesting.”
EB: “And so they end up, the committee staff ended up dropping a lot of the specific requests that we had put in there that David Grusch specifically wrote...”
ML: “Interesting.”
EB: ”….they dropped a lot of it and just made it a generic request, and so…”
ML: “That was Oversight [Committee] staff?”
Burlison nods.
EB: “But, you know, their view was that, um, it positions them for this — it positions them better legally for getting the information than if they have to subpoena…”
ML: “Interesting.”
EB: ”…by making it more generic in the first attempt.”
ML: “Did you put a dateline like when you want a response by?”
EB: “I think so, but I don't remember.”
ML: “Are you expecting it in the coming weeks or…?”
EB: ”We’ll see. I don't know.”
ML: “I'll be watchin.”
EB: “Thank you.”
Burlison starts heading up Capitol steps.
ML: “As always, ‘preciate ya!”
