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BUSTED: Biden Administration Misled About the Chinese Spy Balloon Not Transmitting Data
Red State ^ | 12/29/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 12/29/2023 6:19:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Stop me if you've heard this one before: The Biden administration misled the American people about a major foreign policy issue. 

According to a new report, the claim that the infamous Chinese spy balloon was blocked from transmitting data as it flew across the mainland United States was false. Astonishingly, the balloon was allowed to connect to a domestic telecommunications service. That connection was then used to send "burst transmissions" back to China, and it's unlikely it was transmitting take-out orders.

The balloon connected to a U.S.-based company, according to the assessment, to send and receive communications from China, primarily related to its navigation. Officials familiar with the assessment said it found that the connection allowed the balloon to send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.

Gen. Mark Milley, who himself has a long history of defending China, was serving as Biden's Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. He claimed that all communications from the satellite were blocked, making whatever intelligence was gathered over the United States irrelevant. That was not true. 

On 9/17, Gen. Milley insisted the spy balloon didn’t collect any intel.

Biden admin officials have said the same.

Now, nearly a year after the incident, NBC learns that the balloon used a U.S. telecom network to “send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.”

This sentence is devastating: “The previously unreported U.S. effort to monitor the balloon's communications could be one reason Biden administration officials have insisted that they got more intelligence out of the device than it got as it flew over the U.S.”— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) December 29, 2023

Milley's claim, which was repeated by other White House officials, came after an attempt to hide the existence of the spy balloon from the public failed. The original plan apparently was to never tell anyone about it, but that was ruined when people on the ground noticed it, leading to the story being reported in the press. 

At that point, the strategy shifted to saying that the balloon was harmless and that all outgoing transmissions from it had been blocked. It would seem improbable that Milley simply wasn't aware that all transmissions weren't being blocked, which would mean he and the administration lied about the matter to save face. 

Defense and intelligence officials have said the U.S. assessment is that the balloon was not able to transmit intelligence back to China while it was over the U.S. 

Of course, none of this would have been an issue had Biden had the guts to shoot the spy balloon down when it was still over the Pacific Ocean. As RedState previously reported, it was detected long before it reached the U.S. mainland. Biden let it transit across anyway, not making the call to blow it out of the sky until it got off the South Carolina coast. The public finding out about it is what ruined his plan to let the thing pass over unmolested. 

How can anybody trust anything that the Biden administration says at this point? They've been caught in numerous falsehoods just surrounding this incident, and if they'll mislead about something like this, there's nothing they won't mislead about. 



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: balloon; burst; chicoms; china; chinesespyballoons; intelligence; liars; nondonor; spyballoon; spying; tightwad
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1 posted on 12/29/2023 6:19:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Telecommunications company received arrests for treason and espionage?

Don’t hold your breath.


2 posted on 12/29/2023 6:23:36 PM PST by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

So they lied….again


3 posted on 12/29/2023 6:26:17 PM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Bayard

RE: Telecommunications company received arrests for treason and espionage?

Heck they won’t even allow the NAME of this Telco to be published.


4 posted on 12/29/2023 6:26:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine Xi allowing one of our spy balloons to traverse China without doing anything to stop it…….


5 posted on 12/29/2023 6:27:10 PM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it came from the White House, of course it was a lie.

If it came from the moronic spoxidiot, it was a laughable lie.

No matter what happens in the next election, there will be trouble. No way out of it.


6 posted on 12/29/2023 6:27:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind
"Gen. Mark Milley, who himself has a long history of defending China, was serving as Biden's Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. He claimed that all communications from the satellite were blocked, making whatever intelligence was gathered over the United States irrelevant. That was not true. "


7 posted on 12/29/2023 6:29:48 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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8 posted on 12/29/2023 6:35:34 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: SeekAndFind
Heck they won’t even allow the NAME of this Telco to be published.

DoD

9 posted on 12/29/2023 6:36:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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RE: DoD

Well, well, well, I didn’t know that the Defense Department is now considered a “U.S-based telecommunications company”.


10 posted on 12/29/2023 6:38:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Algore didn’t invent the internet.


11 posted on 12/29/2023 6:40:15 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Da Coyote
If it came from the White House, of course it was a lie.

No doubt.

12 posted on 12/29/2023 6:41:07 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...it was detected long before it reached the U.S. mainland. Biden let it transit across anyway...”

Well duh, that’s why many refer to him as Xiden. Would love for Trump to bring this topic up in debate but there won’t be one.


13 posted on 12/29/2023 6:42:28 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Big Guy’s puppet masters in Beijing got everything they wanted. And he knows it.


14 posted on 12/29/2023 6:44:51 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s lying to the American people.

Us.

His bosses.

While executing the duties of the office.

That’s treason.


15 posted on 12/29/2023 6:46:13 PM PST by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind; Liz
Gen. Mark Milley, who himself has a long history of defending China, was serving as Biden's Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. He claimed that all communications from the satellite were blocked, making whatever intelligence was gathered over the United States irrelevant. That was not true.

At best Gen Milley is stupid and a liar. At worst, he' a traitor.

16 posted on 12/29/2023 6:46:20 PM PST by GOPJ (Surgery/makeup doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing gorilla costumes turns a man into ape)
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To: Gay State Conservative
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17 posted on 12/29/2023 6:46:43 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: SeekAndFind
Looks like it totary WAS for spying. IMG-7264
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18 posted on 12/29/2023 6:48:30 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, tell me again that Biden hasn’t sold out to the Chinese.


19 posted on 12/29/2023 6:57:40 PM PST by econjack
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To: SeekAndFind

How much of this treason are Americans and the GOP going to tolerate?


20 posted on 12/29/2023 7:16:31 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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