There is a small civil war going on between government officials over how much of their intel should be turned over to Congress and the public.
Government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said that there are people within the Pentagon who are protecting very interesting information.
The House Intelligence Committee will hold hearings tomorrow on unidentified aerial phenomenon, which is the military's rebranded of what were. They have no accountability for taking it seriously. Zero. There is a group of people that know a lot about this subject, but have not reported it to Congress because of security issues.
A Defense Department official said that it would take a "forcing mechanism" to get these people to reveal some of their secrets.
There is a more mundane concern among some officials who spoke toPolitico.
According to one intelligence official, legit UAPs are so rare that they accounted for five things out of 5,000.
The Defense Department established a public-facing office to study unexplained phenomena in November of last year, after the strategic leaking of information about these strange occurrences in late 2017, which led to increasing calls during the Trump and Biden administrations to reveal more about UAPs.
We don't know if we will get a full picture of what the Pentagon knows, but we will be reading the liveblogs eagerly.
Spy agencies wrestle with how much to share at a hearing.
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