Published December 23, 2023
Earlier this year one of the big stories came about when a Chinese spy balloon floated across the entire United States for several days, occasionally taking the time to hover high above sensitive U.S. military sites before heading out over the Atlantic Ocean where it was shot down.
The Defense Department said at the time that the White House waited until the balloon had traveled over the entire country before shooting it down over water so nobody on the ground would be at risk:
President Joe Biden ordered the action on Wednesday, but it was delayed until the balloon was over water off the coast of South Carolina to ensure no Americans on the ground were harmed.
“The balloon, which was being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above U.S. territorial waters,” Austin said.
The action was taken in coordination and support of the Canadian government. “We thank Canada for its contribution to tracking and analysis of the balloon through [North American Aerospace Defense Command] as it transited North America,” Austin said.
However, that didn’t happen before a trove of data was collected and transmitted to China. It was yet another embarrassment for Biden and his administration, but shortly after the balloon was shot down, Biden tried to make everybody believe it was an embarrassment for the Chinese leadership.
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SOURCE: www.twitchy.com
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Published December 23, 2023
last January the Biden administration knew about the Chinese spy balloon traversing across the continental United States, from Alaska to the Carolinas, but sought to conceal this from the American public.
A newspaper photographer first spotted the balloon over Montana.
The China spy balloon first entered US airspace over Alaska in late January.
Joe Biden and Mark Milley knew the surveillance balloon was over the US, yet Biden chose to stand down.
The balloon soared over nuclear silos and military installations across the US with Joe Biden’s full approval.
The balloon was shot down over the Atlantic just off the coast of the Carolinas.
According to the Pentagon, the spy balloon carried explosives to self-detonate, was 200 feet tall, and weighed thousands of pounds.
The Administration knew about the spy balloon but sought to conceal it from the American public.
The Biden regime did not even notify the Gang of Eight Congressional leaders about the security breach by the Communist Chinese.
Retired General Mark Milley knew about the Chinese balloon but followed the lead of the Biden regime and kept it from the public.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A U.S. Air Force pilot looks down at the Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovers over the central continental United States on Feb. 3.
Published December 23, 2023
WASHINGTON — On a Friday evening last January, Gen. Glen VanHerck, the Air Force commander in charge of defending American airspace from intrusion, called President Joe Biden’s top military adviser, Gen. Mark Milley.
U.S. intelligence officials had just notified the general that for roughly 10 days they had been tracking a mysterious — and enormous — object flying over the Asia-Pacific, VanHerck told Milley. The object had crossed into U.S. airspace over Alaska and VanHerck said he planned to dispatch military jets to fly alongside it and attempt to assess what it was.
The previously unreported Jan. 27 phone call between Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and VanHerck, the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, set off an eight-day scramble inside the Biden administration to respond to a Chinese spy balloon the size of three school buses floating over the U.S.
The spy balloon exposed an increasingly brazen China’s competitive advances miles above the Earth and brought the most critical relationship in the world to one of its lowest points in recent history.
Nearly a year later, U.S. relations with China have not fully recovered and officials from the two nations have apparently not discussed it in detail. An American effort to create global norms in the largely unregulated spaces above the Earth has stalled. And VanHerck warns that the Chinese balloon program remains active and the U.S. has failed to develop the systems needed to detect spy balloons before they become a threat.
Privately, Biden administration officials complain that the political and public outcry over the balloon was wildly disproportionate to any threat it posed to U.S. national security. In their view, because China was so angered and humiliated, the damage done to the relationship between Washington and Beijing was a far graver threat to the U.S. than the balloon itself.
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SOURCE: www.nbcnews.com
