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VIDEO: Pentagon Says US Collected Valuable Intel Waiting To Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon
The Free Press-Tampa ^ | 02/04/2023 | Mike Jenkins

Posted on 02/04/2023 6:55:49 PM PST by Conservativetpa

The U.S. was able to collect valuable information on China’s surveillance capabilities while observing the spy balloon as it traversed the continental U.S. for several days, a senior military official and senior defense official said Saturday.

President Joe Biden asked for possible military options for removing the threat of the suspected Chinese spy balloon Tuesday, but the Department of Defense (DOD) opted against doing so Wednesday over concerns falling debris could endanger civilians, officials said at a briefing Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampafp.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: balloon; china; spy; us
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1 posted on 02/04/2023 6:55:49 PM PST by Conservativetpa
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To: Conservativetpa

100% cowflop


2 posted on 02/04/2023 6:57:42 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Conservativetpa

Our government has run out of political capital. I don’t believe anything that is blatantly nonsensical is done out of ignorance anymore. These people are dangerous, they are gaslighting us, and I fear we’re dangerously close to an historical inflection point.


3 posted on 02/04/2023 6:58:04 PM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: Conservativetpa

Joe sure snookered those silly Chinks. They’ll think twice before they mess with him, again.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 6:58:10 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Conservativetpa
We're going to hear lie after lie about Biden's woundrous decision to shoot this down AFTER it had crossed country instead of shooting it down before it reached the mainland. Just Brilliant Joe...just brilliant. Another George Washington.

I don't really need s/ do I??

It may be the balloon dropped anthrax all across the USA...the bugger is hard to kill...cold or heat doesn't do it.

5 posted on 02/04/2023 6:59:22 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Conservativetpa

and there were no side effects from the vaccine mandate in the military either.


6 posted on 02/04/2023 7:00:00 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: Conservativetpa

Thank God, it was a good thing it flew over our sensitive military installations. Reports are coming in from the Pentagon and they’re hoping for more Chinese spycraft to fly over the U.S. so we can get ever a better understanding of their balloon spycraft.

Blap!


7 posted on 02/04/2023 7:01:14 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

No, good intel! Hot air made the balloon rise, and when they shot it down with an arrow, it floated sown like a corkscrew.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 7:02:26 PM PST by silent majority rising
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To: Conservativetpa

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/right.wav


9 posted on 02/04/2023 7:02:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Conservativetpa
The U.S. was able to collect valuable information on China’s surveillance capabilities while observing the spy balloon as it traversed the continental U.S. for several days, a senior military official and senior defense official said Saturday.


Not nearly as good intel as the Chinese got, though.
10 posted on 02/04/2023 7:03:30 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: Conservativetpa

The media stenographers agree. As does Jen Griffin at Fox.


11 posted on 02/04/2023 7:03:30 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: silent majority rising

Biden should have asked the Chinese to maneuver it over the Pentagon so they could have gotten a real good look.


12 posted on 02/04/2023 7:03:47 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Conservativetpa

They think everyone are idiots.


13 posted on 02/04/2023 7:04:58 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Conservativetpa

The DoD, having received a whole shipment of Sour Lemons, wants us to sample their latest lemonade recipe.

Just say “NO”!


14 posted on 02/04/2023 7:05:12 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Conservativetpa

It’s the Afghanistan fiasco all over again.

Lie after lie after lie... etc.


15 posted on 02/04/2023 7:05:28 PM PST by adorno
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To: Conservativetpa

incompetent boobs

took them long enough

to make that up


16 posted on 02/04/2023 7:05:29 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Biden administration tried to hide Chinese spy balloon from American public
By Jon Levine
February 4, 2023

“President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.”

https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/biden-administration-tried-to-hide-chinese-spy-balloon-from-american-public/


17 posted on 02/04/2023 7:06:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: gundog
Joe sure snookered those silly Chinks. They’ll think twice before they mess with him, again.

Yep, Joe sure roped those dopes!

18 posted on 02/04/2023 7:06:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Conservativetpa

Valuable information collected by Top Men?

Like the ~51 IC Top Men who insisted that the Hunter laptop was Rooskie disinformation?


19 posted on 02/04/2023 7:07:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Conservativetpa

The valuable intel collected is that Xiden continues to be a cuck


20 posted on 02/04/2023 7:09:08 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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