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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: McGruff

YA THINK??????


41 posted on 02/05/2023 10:48:41 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: piasa

If winds pushed it on a northerly track (they did), of course it transited Alaska.


42 posted on 02/05/2023 10:50:38 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: McGruff

“Experts” that almost always are wrong.


43 posted on 02/06/2023 12:02:53 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: McGruff

Biden did what he was Suppose To DO! He waited until China had what they needed.


44 posted on 02/06/2023 12:05:39 AM PST by Revel
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To: McGruff

Joe’s on China’s payroll. Nothing to see here folks.


45 posted on 02/06/2023 12:13:33 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: McGruff

Why not? China paid Obozo/Biden and the Dems for the intelligence.


46 posted on 02/06/2023 1:04:20 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: chopperk; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

Biden was in on this. Biden is a Communist too, so he welcomed the Chinese spying on us and facilitated it by letting it fly at whim over our Country before it was spotted by civilians, at which point the gig was up, and they had to acknowledge the balloon’s existence. But even then they did nothing to stop it’s lingering flight over our military installations as it transversed the whole of our Country. Until he finally shot it down for PR value.

Biden did nothing because he is compromised and owned by the Chinese gov’t through blackmail. He let them get what they wanted. Plus Biden and his minions don’t like our Country as we are racially evil, don’t you know, and deserve to be brought down a peg, including by other foreign entities.

Just about any other country is morally superior to our own according to the most corrupt regime our Country has ever known. This is all a nightmare that we can’t awaken from for the next two years. By that time, our Country may be a goner if we don’t fight back tooth and nail; I hope it’s not too late.


47 posted on 02/06/2023 3:21:11 AM PST by flaglady47 (Trump knows where all the bodies lie - just sayin......)
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To: McGruff

Bkmk


48 posted on 02/06/2023 3:22:51 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: McGruff

...on Sunday, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital...
Another unsourced report from FOX. If you can’t name your source, I label it bullroar.


49 posted on 02/06/2023 4:01:32 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: McGruff
Spy balloon likely sent extensive intelligence to China, experts say

I doubt it found much intelligence in this country.

50 posted on 02/06/2023 4:12:16 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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Cell phone info (not necessarily data) of everyone in the missile silo facilities. Movement, numbers, clustering, reactions, etc.


51 posted on 02/06/2023 4:14:12 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: McGruff

Milley has a lot to answer for as he was calling the Chinese Military Command Officials telling them what the US had in military plans but the Chinese told him nothing about the lousy balloons crossing sensitive US military areas. Throw the bums out now so they can study CRT and Proper Pronouns.


52 posted on 02/06/2023 4:14:28 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: McGruff

DUH!!! This was a PAYOFF from BIDEN for all the money sent to THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY!


53 posted on 02/06/2023 4:18:04 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: McGruff

THAT is PERFECT!! And you should put that on every thread!!


54 posted on 02/06/2023 4:19:36 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: piasa

Yes, it went from China to Alaska, and NEVER went over Russia.....then it went down into Canada to Montana. Have you NOT seen the map??


55 posted on 02/06/2023 4:22:45 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lightman

I don’t know if it’s weakness or bending over after getting paid.


56 posted on 02/06/2023 4:29:47 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: McGruff

China was pimping Biden.

The balloon was 10 miles above the earth when shot down. They have powerful satellites that can harvest data much better.....


57 posted on 02/06/2023 5:05:37 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: blackberry1

The only difference with the intel the balloon could collect is higher resolution data. This was an actual “trial balloon”!


58 posted on 02/06/2023 5:13:56 AM PST by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: 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.”

I’m assuming our counterintelligence office knew about this and what was going on and was able to monitor what the CCP was actually doing.


59 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:13 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: McGruff

They got their money’s worth.


60 posted on 02/06/2023 5:42:34 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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