Posted on 02/04/2023 10:02:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act.
“Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.
“It’s an outrage that the Biden Administration spotted this balloon days ago as it was flying over the Aleutian Islands and did nothing about it,” she said. “The president has not even made a comment about this unacceptable act of aggression by the CCP.”
The politics of the looming 2024 presidential election also played a role in Biden’s actions, sources told Bloomberg, with the fraught US-China relationship expected to be a central foreign policy issue.
Team Biden became aware of the balloon on Jan. 28, Bloomberg reported, when it was spotted over Alaska.
The US military tracked it as it flew into Canadian airspace, then re-entered American skies on Tuesday. The next day, Biden received a detailed briefing on the balloon and its course, attended by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
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This Administration tries to hide everything from the American public.
Soon, we will see pictures of Biden in the “situation room” looking all concerned over the China spy balloon while he is surrounded by all of his advisors, and in constant contact with the Pentagon. The media will ignore the fact that he was actually not in D.C. at the time, and such actions by Biden could not have happened, but instead exclaim in awe over his leadership skills during this crisis.
They looked at the balloon, saw no white nationalist or homophobic symbols or markings, and then knew they could safely ignore it.
;-)
From the Battle of Britain movie
Air Vice Marshal Keith Park: [on being told that the radar stations are out of action due to German bombing] So we’re blind, so now we’ve only got the Observer Corps!
I’m surprise CNN didn’t say the NYPost s daje news, like they tried on dirty Hunter last year.
It COULD have been a Dry Run: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dry-run-balloons-called-top-delivery-platform-for-nuclear-emp-attack/ar-AA174OkJ?fbclid=IwAR3ckKyxkx2eC8zURWyqujnXrqf6qX4mSq5ukqXX7sNpl43NLfTX0fBOWG8
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