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Spy balloon likely sent extensive intelligence to China, experts say
Fox News ^ | February 5, 2023 | Patrick Hauf

Posted on 02/05/2023 8:30:53 PM PST by McGruff

The Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the U.S. likely was able to send sensitive data to the Chinese Communist Party before it was shot down by the U.S. military Saturday, foreign policy experts told Fox News Digital.

Military officials decided to take out the balloon exactly one week after they first discovered it in Alaska. However, President Biden was not made aware of the balloon until Tuesday, when it was over Montana. Local news broke the story of its existence on Thursday.

The Pentagon said Thursday it "acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information" from the balloon. But geopolitical experts said there is little reason to believe those efforts were successful, as the balloon almost certainly transferred surveillance data over to China as it flew over several military bases.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; balloon; bideneffect; canada; montana
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To: Rastus

He’s more like the second coming of LBJ, complete with his own proxy war.


21 posted on 02/05/2023 8:55:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I understand that they were tracking it as soon as it departed China.


22 posted on 02/05/2023 8:58:17 PM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: frank ballenger
No Signs of Intelligent Life.

It must have scanned the White House.

23 posted on 02/05/2023 8:59:49 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: McGruff

Alaska? I thought it went to Canada first then into the lower 48.


24 posted on 02/05/2023 9:02:44 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: McGruff

President Retard with his head up his butt as usual


25 posted on 02/05/2023 9:03:42 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: reg45

Ha.

That “brain trust” plus Biden equals zero.

Different in the 1960s.
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” —”Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere.” April 29, 1962.


26 posted on 02/05/2023 9:08:16 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: McGruff
Spy balloon likely sent extensive intelligence to China, experts say

*sigh*

"Do you think so?"

27 posted on 02/05/2023 9:13:26 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: McGruff

And now they are saying 3 went over under Trump but were not detected until after Trump left office.

Also a fourth one last year or so. Also undetected.

China got lots of info for years and we didn’t even know?


28 posted on 02/05/2023 9:15:51 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: All

Hey look there’s a Jack in the Box in Sandpoint and an Outback Steak House in Missoula.

Ret’s go, I so hungry.


29 posted on 02/05/2023 9:29:14 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (If Arizona held the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt would lose to Joe Biden)
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To: lightman

10% for the big guy.


30 posted on 02/05/2023 9:30:32 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yes we do.
Traitorous geniuses seeking to destroy America.


31 posted on 02/05/2023 9:31:35 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: McGruff

Sad truth.
We are occupied now.


32 posted on 02/05/2023 9:33:02 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: MarMema
And now they are saying 3 went over under Trump but were not detected until after Trump left office. Also a fourth one last year or so. Also undetected

A complete lie. If they were undetected how do they know they were there?

33 posted on 02/05/2023 9:34:41 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Did you see the thread?


34 posted on 02/05/2023 9:44:22 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: McGruff

Our leaders with ignorance and amnesia don’t remember the Japanese citizen that photographed Pearl Harbor and documented the goings of our ships the Summer of 1941. History repeats itself over and over.


35 posted on 02/05/2023 9:50:33 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: McGruff; All

This is how Russia’s close ally Belarus treats American balloonists....

‘Shoot It Down!’: The Tragic Tale Of Two American Balloonists Over Belarus

https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-american-balloonists-tragedy-25-years-shot-down/30975038.html


36 posted on 02/05/2023 9:59:42 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: McGruff

The military chieftains are just as bad as Biden.

And that includes the loser Air Farce general who was
giving the American people a load of bullcrap on Friday.
What a dullard.


37 posted on 02/05/2023 10:23:05 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: MarMema

Everyone in the former Trump Administration, including John Radcliffe, Director of National Intelligence under Trump, said those stories of balloons over Texas and Florida during the Trump Administration are BS.

Just some lefties trying to prop up Biden and lying about Trump yet again.


38 posted on 02/05/2023 10:31:47 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: McGruff

What is even more incompetent is they let the balloon get off the coast of South Carolina. If they want to know what the balloon was using for its surveillance, they will have to use a salvage vessel to get it up in 65 feet of water. I doubt they will find it and we will never know if they did.


39 posted on 02/05/2023 10:35:12 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: piasa

It went through Alaska and traveled over the Rockies in British Columbia and down into the western U.S.


40 posted on 02/05/2023 10:44:24 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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