I appreciate Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (TN-2) because he's a funny, plain-speaking guy who seems to truly believe he has an obligation to serve the people when so many lawmakers seem not to care about that duty.
So what he had to say about what he had been told about alien life was troubling when he appeared on Newsmax with Rob Finerty. Finnerty asked him about a claim from former representative Matt Gaetz that he'd been told about "alien-human hybrid breeding programs."
Rep. Tim Burchett went on TV
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and said what he’s seen about aliens
would cause chaos if revealed. Many aren’t ready for the truth but it must be told. pic.twitter.com/5aZfC0iBIx
“I’m still a member of Congress, so I can’t really comment too much on what Matt said,” Burchett told Finnerty.
“Wait, seriously?” Finnerty slightly pushed back.
“I’m being 100 percent serious,” Burchett replied.
Alrighty now. That wasn't all.
“I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is. And, I’ll just say this, if they were to release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff,” Burchett told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on Wednesday.
Burchett — a member of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — recalled that he was briefed two weeks ago “on an issue” about extraterrestrial life that “would have set the Earth” on fire and “unglued” the country if released.
He spoke about them having the "addresses" of "items." What the heck are those?
Obviously, Burchett is limited as to what he can say, so it's hard to judge how he's assessing information or if he's overreacting to it. But if it is of such import, then we should know. And that's what he said, that he was advocating for full disclosure. “The public has a right to know, dadgummit, it’s your tax dollars. Let’s get it out there,” he said.
But from a process point of view, what he said about how they were handling the information was very disturbing.
“When I’m in a meeting, in a closed-door meeting, and I ask about the president’s points on these. And then I’m told by some arrogant, unelected bureaucrat that the president is on a need-to-know basis. I think that says everything it needs to be said about what’s going on,” he told Finnerty.
That's crazy. The president has purview over all the intelligence, or at least is supposed to. He's the one who gets to decide who needs to know. Unelected bureaucrats don't get to deny him intel or say he doesn't need to know. If that is in fact happening, that's a big problem.
“When I sit in a meeting, and some little punk with a man bun is sort of running the show, and you have decorated officer military officers in the meeting there that are basically unallowed to say anything, and you can read their faces,” he shared.
Burchett even weighed in on the question of the disappearances of people, including retired Air Force Gen. William McCasland and rocket scientist Monica Reza.
“There are no coincidences in this town. These folks have disappeared or died mysteriously,” he said. “I think overall, I think there is a connection there. People just do not disappear … not in this day and age.”
“For the record, I’m not suicidal, and I don’t take risks,” he added.
Well, that's going to feed conspiracies. I'm going to disagree with him there and say yes, sometimes, people do disappear, but I do not know all the facts of those cases.
But the bottom line is that all the information needs to be put out there, and let us decide how to evaluate it. And for sure, all the information should be going to President Donald Trump so he can make a judgment in the best interests of the United States — that should not be up to unelected bureaucrats who think they are in power.
Trump said in February that he was directing all agencies to release anything they had on the subject.
“I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”
According to People, since the president's comment, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has registered the domains aliens.gov and alien.gov. So that does sound like they are planning to drop a bunch of stuff for us to see.
