The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday got a classified briefing

🤥The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday got a classified briefing from federal officials about the spate of drone sightings on the East Coast.

The lawmakers said they were largely satisfied with the answers from the Defense, Homeland and Justice departments but called for more transparency to ease growing public concerns.

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the panel, said they were told that any drones sighted were not operated by the federal government and no laws were being broken by drones that were being flown in the area.

There are more than 800,000 registered drones throughout the country, he said, and possibly “millions and millions” more that aren’t — so identifying who is operating the craft would be extremely difficult.

“We have no idea who owns these drones, assuming these drones are, in fact, drones,” Mr. Himes told reporters. “Again, everybody who studied this has arrived at the conclusion that most of these sightings are commercial aircraft.”

As they exited the closed-door briefing, lawmakers said they believed the explanations but wanted the Biden administration to do a better job explaining it to Americans.
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