House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
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OrgGovernment AgencyHPSCI is the U.S. House committee overseeing intelligence agencies, programs, budgets, authorities, and national-security activities.
HPSCI is the U.S. House committee overseeing intelligence agencies, programs, budgets, authorities, and national-security activities.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is the chamber’s principal committee for oversight of the United States Intelligence Community. Established as a permanent select committee in 1977, HPSCI reviews intelligence programs, authorization legislation, budgets, covert actions, and agency compliance. Members and cleared staff can receive classified information unavailable to most representatives.
Its authority is substantial but shared. Armed-services, appropriations, judiciary, homeland-security, and oversight committees hold related jurisdiction, while the Senate has its own intelligence committee. HPSCI hearings and reports may be public or classified, and the public record often reveals requirements or conclusions without the underlying sources and methods. HPSCI’s professional staff conducts much of the detailed continuity work between public hearings. Staff members review notifications, classified annexes, agency responses, and budget material while members balance intelligence jurisdiction with other committee assignments. The committee can authorize funding limits and reporting duties, but appropriations and executive implementation involve separate actors in the U.S. government.
The committee has received briefings and testimony concerning UAP, alleged programs, and whistleblower complaints. Intelligence oversight is essential when claims involve compartmented access, contractors, or collection systems. A member’s public statement does not necessarily disclose the committee’s classified record or constitute an adopted finding.
HPSCI’s significance to congressional UAP oversight is its capacity to test access and funding inside intelligence channels. Durable accountability requires bipartisan staff investigation, document review, protected interviews, and precise reporting to the U.S. House. Public uncertainty about what the committee has examined should not be filled with assumptions about what it concluded.
Here’s to my @_SolFoundation colleague and friend Kirk McConnell pursuing the truth! https://t.co/GuMR56Z0YJ [Quoted] Kirk McConnell: "I served for 37 years on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the House Intelligence Committee. I was among the staff, who collaboratively investigated the UAP issue on behalf of the senators from both parties and on both committee safter the seminal articles from the New York Times in 2017." "As extraordinar...
Kirk McConnell: "I served for 37 years on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the House Intelligence Committee. I was among the staff, who collaboratively investigated the UAP issue on behalf of the senators from both parties and on both committee safter the seminal articles from the New York Times in 2017." "As extraordinary as the claims sound about a crash retrieval and the recovery of non-human beings, behind the scenes, similar reports...
I'm a big fan of McConnell because he gives it to us straight, with no bs or hype. See my next retweet about firsthand sources. https://t.co/E1xKqDsg6b [Quoted] Mr. Kirk McConnell was on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and both Intelligence Committees in the House and Senate for 37 years. He was present with Senators from both parties in a SCIF during meetings w/highly credentialed 1st hand witnesses claiming both craft and bodies (we have in our possession) of nonhuman orig...
RT @jamescfox: Mr. Kirk McConnell was on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and both Intelligence Committees in the House an…
Probed ingest of: David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone
RT @AskaPol_UAPs: SCOOP: HPSCI leaders weren't part of UAPDA negotiations; Ranking Dem hasn’t seen UFO files Ask a Pol asks: Have you loo…
RT @AskaPol_UAPs: SCOOP: HPSCI leaders weren't part of UAPDA negotiations; Ranking Dem hasn’t seen UFO files Ask a Pol asks: Have you loo…
RT @AskaPol_UAPs: SCOOP: HPSCI leaders weren't part of UAPDA negotiations; Ranking Dem hasn’t seen UFO files Ask a Pol asks: Have you loo…
Have you heard about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s UAP Disclosure Act getting included in the House-passed version of the NDAA? “Yeah, no, I can’t remember,” Rep. Jim Himes, Ranking Member on House Intel Committtee, tells Ask a Pol UAP. “I’ll take your word for it.” But the UAPDA didn’t come up in NDAA talks in HPSCI? “Didn’t come up in Intelligence, no,” Himes says. “We were really focused on the IAA [Intelligence Authorization Act]. Full transcript at Ask a Pol UAP on Substack or A...
Ask a Pol asks: Have you looked at any of these UFO files the Pentagon’s been dropping? Key Himes: “I think I’ve looked at what I understand to be almost all of the compartments that, you know, are relevant, but I’m not current on what the [Defense] Department has been doing lately,” Rep. Jim Himes — the top Democrat on HPSCI — exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. They’ve released four batches of recently declassified UFO videos and documentation that are new to the rest of us. But that hasn’t re...
