Congress wants to declassify UFO, COVID, Epstein files

• The House Oversight Committee will look at declassifying materials related to several national mysteries, from UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein’s client list to 9/11. The CIA, NSA, and the Departments of Justice, Defense, State and Energy will also be asked to provide briefings on any information they have about these incidents.
• The creation of a task force comes shortly after President Trump signed an executive order declassifying documents about the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK.
• Most classified documents are supposed to be automatically declassified between 10 to 25 years after they are created, though some remain under wraps due to their content.

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The House Oversight Committee is creating a task force to examine the declassification of materials regarding national mysteries, including UAPs (UFOs), Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, the origins of COVID-19, and the 9/11 files. The task force wants to build on President Donald Trump’s executive order instructing intelligence heads to prepare for the release of documents regarding the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

“For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified, and the American people are demanding greater transparency,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement. “This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions.”

To kick off their efforts, Comer and task force chair Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., sent letters to the heads of the CIA, NSA, and Departments of Justice, Defense, State and Energy, asking for briefings on information they may have. The committee will then review the materials and make recommendations for declassification and release. 

“The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades,” Luna said. “It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve.”

Classified documents are supposed to be automatically declassified between 10 to 25 years after they are created, depending on their sensitivity level. Some records are exempted from automatic declassification if they reveal intelligence sources or methods, secrets about U.S. weapons systems, or information that could harm America’s relationship with a foreign nation, among other reasons.

However, the president has the authority to declassify documents in the public interest through executive order. 

The FBI announced Tuesday, Feb. 11, that it found 2,400 new records related to the JFK assassination. The documents will be handed over to the National Archives and Records Administration so they can be released according to the president’s order. 

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray said the bureau assessed that the COVID pandemic began with a lab leak in Wuhan, China. But he never revealed how they reached that conclusion and what information they had to support it. 

All these questions and more could be answered if the government declassifies the tens of thousands of documents related to the cases.