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Biden admin offers to brief Trump officials on past Chinese spy balloon incursions
Politico ^ | By ALEXANDER WARD and LARA SELIGMAN 02/05/2023 05:35 PM EST Updated: 02/05/2023 09:28 PM EST

Posted on 02/06/2023 6:31:47 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

How political is the Pentagon becoming. They have been warned for centuries to stay out of politics. They are losing credibility.


61 posted on 02/06/2023 7:37:08 AM PST by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Harpotoo
...until 2 days ago the incursions were “undetected”.

'Unreported' is more likely.....................

62 posted on 02/06/2023 7:39:04 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

“And why weren’t the Canadians informed or aware?”

Maybe because Trudeau is on record with gushing praise for the Chinese government’s efficiency and ability to get things done.


63 posted on 02/06/2023 7:44:09 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: Red Badger

Congressman Waltz (FL) just told Stu Varney, that he was briefed and told balloons briefly flew over TX & FL during Trump Admin.
He said that there is speculation that the Pentagon didn’t tell Trump because they were afraid his reaction would be too provocative. He wants to hear what Gen. Mattis has to say.


64 posted on 02/06/2023 7:48:11 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

This whole episode demonstrates the absolute ineptitude of the White Basement Jihad Junta.


65 posted on 02/06/2023 7:49:39 AM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nationThat of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: nuconvert

That is no excuse!......................


66 posted on 02/06/2023 7:50:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Of Course Not !!! That’s the point


67 posted on 02/06/2023 7:53:54 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: McGruff

If newly discovered somebody needs to be fired.

Or, Court Martialed.


68 posted on 02/06/2023 7:54:06 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: Red Badger
It would be good to accept the offer of briefing! Discover where this information is coming from. If it is not recorded in previous documents charge the SOB who is fabricating the info. Try him and summarily hang him in the public square. If it is recorded in previous documents and was not presented to the existing president discover who withheld the info from the existing POTUS. Charge the SOB who withheld the info. Try him and summarily hang him in the public square.

Bottom line - when 51 of these a$$holes can lie through their teeth affecting an election outcome and nothing happens to them nothing will change. Hang one of them for treason and the other 50 will certainly talk...

69 posted on 02/06/2023 7:54:36 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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...discover who withheld the info from the existing POTUS.

The only person I could think of that would do this dastardly deed is MILEY!..................

70 posted on 02/06/2023 8:00:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

on newly discovered intelligence that China sent spy balloons into U.S. airspace during their time in charge.


So...it was unknown until recently, but now is known.


71 posted on 02/06/2023 8:00:48 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Red Badger

The Trump security officials should accept the offer for a “briefing” immediately. Demand dates and duration of occurence, size of the balloons, locations detected, dates the balloons were “detected” and how.
Step 2: Compare that with what the Gang of Eight’s Marco Rubio was told and when.


72 posted on 02/06/2023 8:01:06 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Red Badger

Newly discovered intelligence
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The Biden propaganda department got some bonus pay on that one.


73 posted on 02/06/2023 8:01:41 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: nuconvert

Now the question is:

IF THEY WITHELD THIS INFORMATION FROM POTUS TRUMP, WHAT ELSE DID THEY ALSO WITHOLD FROM HIM?>...........................🤔


74 posted on 02/06/2023 8:02:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I doubt we’ll ever know


75 posted on 02/06/2023 8:04:30 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Vaduz

Someone’s gonna get an ‘extra chocolate ration’ for that one!.......................


76 posted on 02/06/2023 8:06:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: nuconvert

They have painted themselves into a corner.

If they claim they withheld intelligence information, that is treasonous or at least seditious.

If they claim it was ‘overlooked’ or ‘insignificant’, then that is incompetence.

Either way, someone should be fired and/or prosecuted.................


77 posted on 02/06/2023 8:09:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The earliest military application of a balloon is often credited to Zhuge Liang, a well-known war strategist in dynastic China. That was in the 3rd century, when he used kerosene-doused cloth to propel a sky lantern that alerted allies in neighboring cities of a looming attack.

In the almost two thousand years since, balloon technology advanced and was used increasingly for reconnaissance missions during wars in the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly during the Cold War.

Many countries throughout the world use them to include the US. There is a constant surveillance going all the time from things in the sky over all those same countries.

Spy balloons have some advantages over satellites. They are cheap to deploy, fly relatively close to their targets, and can continuously monitor a location for longer stints. And they are expendable. Biden finally shot the latest one down over the ocean and you can be sure there won’t be anything to sweep up that means anything.

The US has been watched for a number of generations. While you didn’t hear of balloons being used for this, and called weather balloons, the public went on their merry way fat and sassy while the government played a game of hide and seek and never really told the public they were ants under the spyglass.

Well the government has been telling a lot over the last 25 to 30 years about US failure and how the big bad wolf is at the door. There is a point of calling Trump’s mother names by saying he had balloon fly overs. Little secret? So did every president back to FDR and before. And Uncle Sugar kept it quiet to keep the customer fat and sassy so they would be the proud sons and daughters to get re-elected. And all of them do it. This is why the word secret was invented.

wy69


78 posted on 02/06/2023 8:09:58 AM PST by whitney69
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To: lepton

It was an ‘Unknown known’, but now is a ‘Known unknown’...............🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤔


79 posted on 02/06/2023 8:11:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Definitely take them up on the offer.

They really have to.

The Biden Admin did some jackassin’. Now they need to back it up.


80 posted on 02/06/2023 8:12:47 AM PST by Fury
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