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.
Christopher Mellon
Marco Rubio
Kirsten Gillibrand
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] 🚨 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
Probed ingest of: Did Trump Authorize The Shootdown Of UFOs?
[Retweeted] "They wanted to kill [Grusch]." (I'm slowly going through the entire interview and will spend all day on it.) Early 2022... David Grusch: "I get chills talking about this because it's kind of upsetting. I was in D.C. for a conference on UAP, actually, for my agency - NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) at the time - and I got summoned to an off-books Senate Intel Committee - we'll call it a meeting - in their, you know, their SCIF, right? They're their vault where you ca...
"They wanted to kill [Grusch]." (I'm slowly going through the entire interview and will spend all day on it.) Early 2022... David Grusch: "I get chills talking about this because it's kind of upsetting. I was in D.C. for a conference on UAP, actually, for my agency - NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) at the time - and I got summoned to an off-books Senate Intel Committee - we'll call it a meeting - in their, you know, their SCIF, right? They're their vault where you can talk class...
Probed ingest of: Joe Rogan Experience #2560 - David Grusch
Probed ingest of: Immaculate Constellation and the Cost of Blowing the Whistle | Matthew Brown | Ep. 474
"Whistling Mike" unmasked; PHOTO of alleged stealth craft material held by Senate intel committee
I’m Ben Schreckinger, a former POLITICO reporter who recently launched Paradigm.News to investigate UFOs I know “Whistling Mike” has been discussed here before. I've published his true identity along with some new details about his saga and his plans. Mike is Michael Spicer, a Wichita-area businessman. He says that more than 20 years ago he encountered a quiet, roughly triangular, fighter-jet-sized craft hovering low over public land in Kansas. He says he subsequently spent years trying to re...