Ask a Pol UAP is a specialized congressional reporting project founded by Matt Laslo. Drawing on his years as a Washington correspondent, Laslo records short, direct exchanges with senators and representatives in the corridors around votes, hearings, and briefings. The outlet publishes audio, transcripts, scene-setting notes, and follow-up questions, often preserving a lawmaker’s complete answer rather than only the sentence used in a conventional news story.

Its method is access journalism at close range. Laslo repeatedly asks the same officials about pending amendments, classified briefings, whistleblower allegations, committee jurisdiction, and whether promised records or hearings have materialized. Because interviews occur in public hallways and under time pressure, answers can be candid but abbreviated. The raw recording lets an audience hear hesitation, qualification, and context, while the reporter’s framing still determines which official is approached and which issue is pursued.

Ask a Pol has become a primary record of congressional UAP oversight since 2023. Its exclusives have tracked efforts to create select committees, preserve provisions of the UAP Disclosure Act, obtain military videos, interview alleged whistleblowers, and assess AARO. A member’s statement establishes that the member held or voiced a position; it does not prove classified claims mentioned in the exchange, and an off-the-cuff answer may not reflect a committee’s formal action.

The outlet’s influence comes from persistence and documentary transparency. National political reporting often ignores a niche issue between major hearings, whereas repeated corridor interviews show how support shifts, which offices are engaged, and where an initiative stalls. By pairing recordings with dates and named speakers, Ask a Pol creates an unusually granular political history of UAP legislation. Its strongest work makes the limits of each answer as visible as the headline it produces.