Posted on 02/06/2023 4:34:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
WASHINGTON – A top military commander said Monday the US had not detected previous incursions by Chinese spy balloons as they took place during the Trump administration – raising troubling questions about the security of US airspace.
“Every day as NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America,” Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck of the North American Aerospace Defense Command told reporters. “I will tell you that we did not detect those [previous] threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out.”
VanHerck spoke after a massive Chinese surveillance craft was allowed to cruise across the country for days — taking in sensitive military sites along the way — before it was shot down by an Air Force F-22 jet off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.
Soon after the shootdown, an anonymous senior defense official told reporters that similar Chinese balloons “transited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration.”
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Super lies. They missed nothing because China would not have pulled the balloon thing with Trump.
NORAD says these balloons know kung fu and employ ninja stealth technologies.
Libtards believe them
1st it was the balloons also came during Trump’s four years but the military did not tell the President. Today it’s the balloons came but the military could not spot them........ 🧐 WTF! Everything is lying and spinning from this government...
Thank you for posting that!
This time it was discovered by a bunch of cowboys in Montana. It was they who started asking questions.
BUT I BETCHA THEY DIDN’T MISS PRIDE MONTH or black history month or juneteenth or any of the woke nonsense.
Had to take a break from studying.
They keep tweaking the narrative until they find something that they think people will believe. It doesn’t matter if it contradicts earlier statements or fails basic logic.
My Money on Susan Rice.
I think the General is testing the media to see how stupid they are.
They didn’t happen. That is what he is saying. He didn’t see them because they weren’t there.
Me neither. BS on steroids.
They would have kept this from us if the guy in Montana didn’t spill the beans.
Courts Martial.
Lots of them.
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its because the general is lying.
Heh heh.
These people will say anything to make trump look bad. FOAD
If they didn’t detect them, how do they know they did them? Complete BS in an attempt to normalize this intrusion and lack of response.
They’re still not touching the truth.
Because they know it will inflame the public.
They didn’t look for balloons in the atmosphere above controlled airspace because they didn’t consider it part of their mission.
Weaponized balloons were not taken seriously.
The military would have to devote significant resources to track balloons continuously, for a threat they don’t take seriously, so I see their point.
And tracking balloons is not sexy, not like intercepting fighters and bombers.
These democrat communists never cease to amaze with their baffling bull$hit! When are the American people going to wake up????
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