David Grusch
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first heard Jan 2026
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that I was aware of was unfortunately now deceased Vice President Dick Cheney, Darth Vader himself, not shocking that he was involved in this.
And essentially when he left in 2009, that was the last time that these activities really had central leadership.
That's totally true.
You've actually accurately described how it is.
Early on the global war on terror, a lot of the money that was initially given to these companies was essentially reallocated for overseas contingency operations.
And these contractors essentially started to do their own thing, if you will, something called IRAD, internal research and development, and privately
they continued certain things that actually the government was trying to cancel as it relates to the subject.
And they went off, um, and retrieved and exploited things essentially on their own, uh, and only loosely accountable back, uh, to their government handlers.
And it's, it's funny you mentioned the CIA, um,
Naturally, there's a lot of good men and women that work there.
My wife actually was a CIA officer and she also served in the Air Force with me.
But Chairwoman Luna and the task force and the committee staff, certainly I assisted in my other professional capacity, helping Representative Burleson's office, did send legal interrogatives
to several agencies and private companies.
CIA was one of them.
And curiously enough, CIA provided what I considered an extremely disrespectful response.
They declined to answer our interrogatives on this matter, which is their participation in crash retrieval operations, and just referred us to the Pentagon's
Arrow office, which has a nebulous and concerning history in itself.
And I just find it very interesting that CIA did that.
Now, I'm not saying John Ratcliffe or Michael Ellis, who's the acting general counsel and deputy director, had a hand in that response, but they certainly are the leaders of their organization.
John Ratcliffe has spoke positively on this issue previously, and I would hope
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