U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)
OrgGovernment AgencyU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI)
OrgGovernment AgencyThe Senate Select Committee on Intelligence oversees U.S. intelligence activities, budgets, authorities, nominees, and compliance with law.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence oversees U.S. intelligence activities, budgets, authorities, nominees, and compliance with law.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marco Rubio
Christopher Mellon
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was created in 1976 to conduct continuing oversight of United States intelligence activities and programs. It reviews agencies, collection and analysis, covert action, budgets, legislation, and significant failures while seeking to ensure intelligence work complies with the Constitution and federal law. Its membership is structured to encourage bipartisan oversight.
SSCI holds frequent classified hearings, employs cleared professional staff, writes the annual intelligence authorization bill, investigates programs and events, and considers nominees for senior intelligence positions. The executive branch is generally required to keep it fully and currently informed. Public reports may state requirements or conclusions while protecting sources, methods, program details, and classified annexes. SSCI’s jurisdiction covers the ODNI, CIA, defense intelligence agencies, and intelligence activities elsewhere in government. Members also serve on related committees, helping coordinate national-security legislation. Classified annexes can direct spending or impose conditions invisible in public bill text, while unclassified reports provide the clearest public account of collectively adopted committee positions.
The committee has shaped recent congressional UAP oversight through authorization language, reporting requirements, whistleblower provisions, and proposals associated with the UAP Disclosure Act. Individual senators may discuss allegations or briefings publicly, but a member’s statement is not automatically a committee finding. Closed access also means silence cannot safely be interpreted as confirmation.
SSCI matters because claims involving intelligence compartments, contractors, and withheld records ultimately require competent legislative access. Its strongest tools are staff investigation, document demands, protected testimony, appropriations leverage, and statutory reporting. A rigorous record should distinguish adopted committee action from a proposal, member interview, or anonymous account and link claims to the actual legislative or oversight record.
[Retweeted] For years, the House and Senate intelligence committees backed UAP legislation, while public hearings brought the subject to a wider audience. As those committees and some of their leading supporters became less vocal, other House lawmakers carried the public push for disclosure forward. With UAP now a White House priority, that effort has reached the highest level of the U.S. government.
For years, the House and Senate intelligence committees backed UAP legislation, while public hearings brought the subject to a wider audience. As those committ [Quoted] NEW: Trump Still Holds the Cards on UFO Disclosure After Midterm Defeat https://t.co/4lAq55xF69
[Retweeted] In The Age of Disclosure, Democratic Senator @SenGillibrand, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, shares her view on the 80-year coverup of UAP: https://t.co/LZUi6qZ4z4
[Retweeted] In The Age of Disclosure, Democratic Senator @SenGillibrand, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee, shares her view on the 80-year coverup of UAP: https://t.co/LZUi6qZ4z4
No doom, no hype, just the concrete action that matters right now. The UAPDA is in the House version of the FY2027 defense bill and is being reconciled with the Senate behind closed doors over the next few weeks. That conference decides whether real disclosure survives or gets gutted like it did in 2023. Thirteen offices hold the pen: the Chairs and Ranking or Vice Members of the House and Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, plus House and Senate leadership. The New Paradigm In...
Yes, @SenSchumer is still involved with the UAPDA. Do I wish he was as vocal and involved as someone like @RepEricBurlison or even @SenatorRounds? Yes, but that [Quoted] Schumer and Rounds Will Submit the UAPDA AGAIN (Where have I heard this before? 🤗 Senator Rounds video complete, but I only transcribed a portion of it, as my time is better spent on the next panel.) ~ @SenatorRounds: "This week, Leader @SenSchumer and I will again offer this vital legislation (the UAPDA) as an amendment to...
[Retweeted] 🚨 China invaded US airspace, shuttering Langley Air Force Base for 17 days (2023)!?! 🚨 That’s what the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee tells me. https://t.co/UgRITzZopM https://t.co/taTBclzBIl https://t.co/X3KixnlIH5
How did these swarms "turn out" to be Chinese drones? We know that Chinese nationals (Fengyun Shi, Yinpiao Zhou) have been arrested for flying small quadcopt [Quoted] Chinese drones, not "UFOs", confirmed swarming over US soil. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) told a reporter that the UFOs that swarmed Langley Air Force base in Dec. 2023 "ended up being Chinese drones". https://t.co/wZa80f2Pan The US military was mostly helpless and clu...
[Retweeted] 🚨 China invaded US airspace, shuttering Langley Air Force Base for 17 days (2023)!?! 🚨 That’s what the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee tells me. https://t.co/UgRITzZopM https://t.co/taTBclzBIl https://t.co/X3KixnlIH5
