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What are your questions, ideas or tips for Rep. Eric Burlison? The congressman is explicitly asking for your input, Ask a Pol fam. Let's not disappoint!!!

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May 6·edited May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Short: does AARO have the proper clearances to review data from potential classified programs or images of classified projects in the wild?

Recently David Grusch indicated the former Director of AARO did not have appropriate clearances required for him to share his findings. How is AARO working to overcome these types of barriers, after all the poison is in the tail

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May 6·edited May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Mr. Burlison. It's. The. Department. Of. Energy!!!

Seriously, why do you think references to this Department were stripped from the Schumer/Rounds amendment? The DOE has been named in these circles for decades. Please investigate around these parts. Any informed testimony received from witnesses or whistleblowers that mentions the DOE should absolutely be followed up on.

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May 6·edited May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Exacly. First draft of UAP Disclosure ACT states:

"(4) Legislation is necessary because credible evidence and testimony indicates that Federal Government unidentified anomalous phenomena records exist that have not been declassified or subject to mandatory declassification review as set forth in Executive Order 13526 (50 U.S.C. 3161 note; relating to classified national security information) due in part to exemptions under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), as well as an overbroad interpretation of ‘‘transclassified foreign nuclear information’’, which is also exempt from mandatory declassification, thereby preventing public disclosure under existing provisions of law."

Why this statement was stripped out?

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May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Does Rep. Burlison believe that the dark programs could be the reason why AARO isn’t getting the proper information? What avenues does Congress have to make sure that AARO is getting full access to real information and not tainted information from a dark program designed to manipulate?

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Mr Burlison: Is there consensus within the UAP caucus on what the goals of their investigations are? Validating (or disproving) specific whistleblower claims? Ascertaining the ability of AARO to execute on its mandate? Ensuring security of sensitive USG facilities? Correcting the possible lack of oversight into government ‘black’ programs? All of it?

And is the UAP caucus willing to accept, request, or demand assistance from other committees in Congress that share oversight responsibility for investigating these same questions? Have they (UAP caucus) done so already?

How might the fact that this is an election year impact the UAP caucus’s ability to conduct their investigations? Are there considerations about the possible change in administration that might result from the Presidential election?

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Rep Burlison: your next step should be working with whistleblowers to get them comfortable and feeling safe, and then get them in a public hearing. Get some fire under this issue. Pressure. I saw someone else suggest investigating the DOE. That is a great idea. And do not trust the DoD or AARO!

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Next step: Deputize a staff member (should already have the clearances they need) of the Gang of 8 to secure a copy of the Eglin video and the 18 minutes or so of the tic tac video that was never released. Redact the sensor data and release those videos to the public. That would be a goodwill gesture towards transparency that the US public would applaud.

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May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

That'd be a baller move!

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May 5Liked by Matt Laslo

I'm glad to hear Eric Burlinson is still in this.

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May 6·edited May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Mr. Burlison, could you appoint meeting (optimally in SCIF) with col. Karl Nell? Is strong assumption that he personally worked in reverse - engineering programs.

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May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

Astronaut from Roswell Edgar Michell concluded that Navy have informations about Roswell 1947 - "It was one of black budget programs". Could you aggressively pursuit it? Source: https://youtu.be/unEzDmiHKic?si=qYDN6uDKwemN1Uew

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May 6Liked by Matt Laslo

I’d like to hear what he thinks about this:

Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights

Jacques Vallee

“Hummingbird. Friday 24 September 2004.

Jim Westwood, in Virginia, has come up with new data, looking up archives and “inspecting government documents. He’s close to Fred Durant (of the old Robertson panel) and his contemporaries. He’s uncovered a third official trail into the secret UFO project through Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States under President Reagan from 1981 to 1996. He may be one of the four “iron posts” beyond Sheehan and Wilson. Bowsher found a crashed UFO program during a massive audit of classified projects: “Less than a handful of officials knew about it.”

In the period 1984-85, Bowsher uncovered a bizarre special access program coverup which surely violated every classification, executive order, regulation, and Congressional rule.

They contemplated turning it over to Justice for prosecution, but “a powerful person in DoD quenched it.” The program, according to the reviewers, had to do with an exotic, non-Earthly vehicle.”

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So Congress (GAO) has found this before. It didn’t turn it over the DOJ 40 years ago. Greenwald’s FOIA post of the Signal conversation between Mellon and Kirkpatrick revealed there is now an active DOJ criminal investigation. Are these connected?

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Good work with this exclusive. You are shaming the mass media.

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May 7Liked by Matt Laslo

Rep Burlison, I think an audit of IRAD spending from the largest defense contractors would likely help you figure out what money is going where. I would tie the spend to the actual end results. If we are not getting good, tangible results we should not be funding it. Without transparency, company employees could be operating subsidiaries which they own substantial interest in and are paying exorbitant fees to and wasting taxpayer dollars.

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May 7Liked by Matt Laslo

Companies such as auto manufacturers will actually audit their vendors’ operations, find efficiencies to be implemented and then expect to share in said efficiencies. I suspect there are likely substantial opportunities in this area. Excessive classification being one area likely costing millions to maintain

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May 7Liked by Matt Laslo

Rep Burlison, with the object Rep Gaetz saw, there is clearly data that was not included in at least the declassified report which does not address Rep Gaetz’s claims and their conclusion has been basically proven to be preposterous. Do you feel like they are acting in good faith now that this has come to light? I would recommend a come to jesus meeting with Acting Director Phillips because that was embarrassing

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May 7Liked by Matt Laslo

If they do not have all of the data or were excluded from accessing/citing certain data sets they know or suspect exists, this needs to be highlighted in any conclusions so that this issue can be worked through. Not doing so makes them look less than competent or untrustworthy.

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Your contributions to the UAP topic have been instrumental in the investigation. I suggest contacting the UAP caucus to see if any members are available and willing to participate in a 'Listing with Lawmakers' session. We've gained considerable insight from Burlison, but engaging with other members such as Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna, Jared Moskovitz, or any additional UAP caucus members for more questions and updates about their actions related to UAPs such as updates for the next hearing, David Grusch's employment as an aide, ETC. This would give us a larger pool of information and more perspectives.

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May 8Liked by Matt Laslo

The most important question is getting Grusch on staff; I would like that to be one of the questions for them. This way the UAP caucus can hear what he has to say and have him guide the investigation. This also shouldn't be as difficult for the UAP caucus to achieve, If possible, could you ask them, Matt?

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