The Republican party is spicing up their hearings in the House lately by parading a line of fake whistleblowers before committees seeking partisan confirmation of their lies and misinformation about the president and his son.
Up until now I've rated the craziest so-called whistleblowers from 1-10. The 10 was an IRS agent who turned out to be a foreign agent for China and an international arms dealer.
I suspect there's a central MAGA clearing house for wannabee whistleblowers that the Crazy Caucus in the House goes to for recruits. Most of the candidates are disgruntled ex-government employees who have an ax to grind.
The sheer production value of having "blockbuster" whistleblowers is hot stuff for the MAGA universe.
Speaking of out of this world, the GOP majority used the House Oversight subcommittee on national security to invite a prominent UFO conspiracist David Grusch to testify about the Pentagon's efforts to conceal their discovery of wrecked spacecrafts and alien bodies.
Along with Grusch there were two former Navy pilots who claimed to have seen UFOs on their job (in 2004) - David Fravor and Ryan Graves who answered questions from the representatives.
To be clear, Grusch is the same guy that pushed a conspiracy theory about the Vatican covering up a UFO that the Mussolini government supposedly kept in storage until the end of WWII. Then they shipped it to the United States where it's currently hidden.
Mr. Grusch is a very intelligent person - he received a college scholarship from the Air Force to study physics - and was an intelligence officer at the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the DOJs UFO research wing.
So, the guy has cred chops. Give him that. The problem is he's never been able to produce proof of his many claims and allegations over the years. But the House decided to give him a huge platform to share his conspiracies because they knew it would be good theatre for the MAGA base.
Meanwhile UFO hopefuls worldwide were rooting for Grusch to shock the world with evidence, but as the sham hearing came to an end, he had none. Instead, he offered up a lot of second-hand conversations with people he couldn't name for security purposes.
His allegations made for some fun moments for the MAGA members. His accusations that there were secret government programs funded by private companies titillated the GOP members.
Despite all that Grusch claims he has evidence to back his story but - alas! - he couldn't share that information with the committee because it's classified. He said that he could debrief the members in a SCIF (sound-proofed room) if they wanted to. At this time there's no plans to do that.
In his opening statement Republican Representative Tim Burchett promised the whistleblowers testimony would "uncover the cover up" by the intelligence community.
As it stands, Where's the beef Mr. Burchett?
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