Lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to release more information about downed objectssay they have received very little so far.
“I think there needs to be more transparency – and I believe it can be delivered in a way that protects national security as well as sources and methods,” Senator Ron Wydena Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Monday.
Senator Gary PetersThe chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said he spoke three times with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the weekend along with Pentagon officials. He said he learned nothing more than what was reported by the press.
“We still have outstanding questions about what we know,” he said. “Tomorrow we will be asking probing questions as they come in in a classified environment,” added Peters, noting that his calls over the weekend were unclassified.
democracy Senator Jon Testerwho chairs the Defense Allocation Subcommittee, said he does not believe there is a protocol for how the United States handles these objects and that he plans to use the allocation process to find out “what do they know, when they know and what the plan is.”
Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Marco Rubioa Republican, said he thought “the disclosure of communications is poor” and called on President Joe Biden to address unidentified subjects.
“I think they [the American people] need to hear from the president, which can be as simple as saying ‘you know, we don’t know what they are, we’re doing everything we can to identify them, and this is why we shot them down’ , ” said Rubio .
Republic Senator Mitt Romney warns against getting “too excited” about balloons and unidentified objects when there are still so many questions about what they are.
“I think we get a little excited about objects that don’t quite understand what they are – balloons, weather balloons – and let’s find out what they are before we get too excited,” he said. .
Another Republican, Senator Todd Young, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said “a lot remains to be learned” before assessing whether shooting down objects was handled properly.
