(NewsNation) — A group of House lawmakers are demanding information about a UAP crash retrieval program that a whistleblower claims is being covered up by the Pentagon.
The six lawmakers, led by Rep. Tim Burchett, asked the intelligence community inspector general in a letter to provide any and all information about the alleged crash retrieval program by mid-September.
The whistleblower, David Grusch, said in an open congressional hearing last month that he’s provided information about the crash retrieval program to the inspector general. Grusch told members of a House Oversight subcommittee during that hearing he could not provide names of people with first-hand knowledge of the crash retrieval in a public setting.
Lawmakers investigating the alleged crash retrieval program have said they have been denied access to a secure facility that would allow them to review classified information.
Burchett and others are pushing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to establish a select committee on UAPs, which would them subpoena power and access to secure facility to view classified information, Burchett told The Hill at an event last week.
“We’re running into a lot of roadblocks there, and that’s the problem with this whole thing. It just creates more and more conspiracy theories because our federal government is so arrogant and so bloated, and they’ll just run out the clock,” Burchett said at the event. “I’m guilty...
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