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Patel then said, “If there’s any connections that lead to nefarious conduct or conspiracy, this FBI will make the appropriate arrest.”
The Oversight Committee’s inquiry has focused in part on connections to NASA and nuclear research programs, but its focus is on the broader commercial space and defense sector in which many of the individuals worked. Experts note that fields such as planetary defense and nuclear research are relatively small, with a limited number of specialists focused on areas like asteroid tracking, deflection modeling, and space-based detection systems.
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