Posted on 12/24/2023 10:48:29 AM PST by Signalman
The Biden administration hoped to keep the Chinese spy balloon incident a secret and let the device move along without alerting anyone, NBC News revealed Friday.
The outlet cited the NBC News report that said the administration initially wanted to hide the device from Congress and the public.
“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” a former official explained to NBC News.
A senior Biden administration denied that there was an attempt to keep the balloon secret. “To the extent any of this was kept quiet at all, that was in large part to protect intel equities related to finding and tracking” the official said, referring to intelligence gathering on the balloon. “There was no intention to keep this from Congress at any point.”
Soon after VanHerck’s phone call with Milley, U.S. military jets dispatched from Alaska used their targeting pods to determine what was on board the object. They confirmed that it was a Chinese spy balloon that was not carrying offensive weapons but was outfitted with a large payload of surveillance equipment.
President Joe Biden (D) eventually had the balloon, which traveled across the continental United States, shot down after it reportedly collected intelligence from sensitive military sites, Breitbart News reported.
“The balloon was not shot down until February 4 — after it had made a several day journey across the states and potentially over other sensitive military sites and exited over South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean,” the outlet stated in April.
In June, Biden reportedly revealed “sensitive” U.S. intelligence...
"At the fundraiser in California, Biden revealed to attendees what the U.S. intelligence agencies had learned about the Chinese spy balloon incident earlier this year, reportedly surprising U.S. officials,”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
simple treason which has been long-protected
by the FB”I” and DO”J” as they attacked the innocent.
If that’s was Trump he’d be impeached already
No no it was the Obama Crime Gang at the White House
According to retired vet and military aircraft tracker Derek Johnson, these “Chinese spy balloons” have had US-based ATC call signs.
Gawd...lies, lies, and more lies heaped upon a steaming pile of lies. They know they are lying. We know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. But they keep lying anyway.
But it’s the government, so what do you expect?
We knew this.
This is reflective of the Marxist Dems and using the military to support their cause. There will be no election in 2024 at the rate of the Dems trying to destroy democracy as we know it. Milley’s communications with the CCP behind Trump’s back and now his knowledge of the CCP space surveillance before hand demonstrates the collusion of the Marxist Dems and the military in todays politics to give an upperhand to foreign nations.
Of course they had classify and hide it. If not the CCP could have found out.
This was China’s version of an Uber. Delivering humper’s latest fentanyl order.
“there was the intention to study it and let it pass over”
Riiiight.
We believe that, don’t we?
“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” a former official explained to NBC News.
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This is the same cr@p leftists pull when there’s a Republican in the White House. Either cite valid sources or shut up.
For this, he should have been impeached.
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