People ITT apparently have very little grasp on what the allegations even are, so let me highlight for the people who aren't informed on this topic
DAVID GRUSCH HAS NEVER STATED HE HAS SEEN ALIENS, OR WORKED ON ALIEN TECH.. The entire allegation is that up to 40 members of the intelligence community have come to him during his role with the UAPTF with information, and he did his own investigation WHICH HE THEN SUBMITTED TO THE ICIG WHO ALSO MADE HIS OWN INVESTIGATION. The allegations were supported enough BY NUMEROUS MEMBERS IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (NOT JUST GRUSCH) that a bipartisan bill was put forth on UFO Disclosure just a month ago.
This supposed "smear" campaign (that's exactly what this is) is basically only further supporting his biggest claim, which was that he was retaliated against by some in the Intelligence Community. Obviously certain people came willingly to a journalist and told him where to look for information to make Grusch look bad (and honestly it isn't anything more than what me and my family have dealt with, so to me it doesn't discredit him) while also being able to keep his TS clearance after the incident
This journalist who reported this story, basically admitted that he agrees with Grusch that we have a crash retrieval program that is being kept secret.. He just didn't talk to anyone who backed up Grusch's sources claim about them being "non human"
This is a good interview, and this journalist was rightly being put to the fire for why would you even report this? What's the point of this other than to be used by those in the Intelligence Community, but even then he never even brought names or sources to his story besides I think like 1 person