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The Ever Changing Narrative: Now the Biden Admin Claims Chinese Spy Balloons Were Discovered AFTER Trump Left Office
PJ Media ^ | 02/06/2023 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/06/2023 8:34:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Do you know how investigators can tell if someone is lying? The perp keeps changing his story.

On Saturday, a Biden administration official told several news outlets that Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration. There was only one problem with that statement: it left out some essential information.

As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis carefully documents, just about every major defense and intelligence official from the former Trump administration denied that there were any such incursions by Chinese spy balloons.

So, once again, the Biden administration was forced to change its story. They are now claiming that U.S. intelligence knew of the spy balloons, but sort of forgot to tell anyone — including Donald Trump.

Fox News:

A defense official on Saturday said Chinese spy balloons briefly traveled over the United States at least three times during the Trump administration.

Trump and a number of his top national security and defense officials refuted the claim, telling Fox News Digital that it “never happened.”

But on Sunday, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital that “U.S. intelligence, not the Biden administration” assesses that “PRC (People’s Republic of China) government surveillance balloons transited the continental U.S. briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time.”

The official told Fox News that “this information was discovered after the [Trump] administration left.”

“They went undetected,” the official told Fox News Digital.

To put it mildly, this story strains credulity. One might ask why the administration was putting out the information that it happened during the Trump administration when the former president was never made aware of the spy balloon’s existence.

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“Two things can be true at once: this happened, and it wasn’t detected,” the Unnamed official told Fox News Digital.

So we failed to detect a Chinese spy balloon the size of three school buses when we have the satellite capability to see the lint on a gnat’s navel? And how did the intelligence agencies “discover” the information that the balloons flew over our territory years after the fact?

The important thing to remember is that Joe Biden didn’t do anything wrong and, in fact, is the hero of this story because he vanquished the Chinese dragon and rode off with the pretty girl.

1 posted on 02/06/2023 8:34:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden asked the Chinese if they ever sent over balloons before. And, they said “Yes”.

So, there!


2 posted on 02/06/2023 8:35:43 AM PST by MMusson
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To: SeekAndFind
So, once again, the Biden administration was forced to change its story. They are now claiming that U.S. intelligence knew of the spy balloons, but sort of forgot to tell anyone — including Donald Trump.

Who owns “US Intelligence”, the American people or the CCP?

3 posted on 02/06/2023 8:38:07 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Balloons everywhere just like classified documents.


4 posted on 02/06/2023 8:38:33 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: SeekAndFind

The lie will be on page 1. Everyone will see and repeat it.
The retraction will be on page 18, below the bowling scores.


5 posted on 02/06/2023 8:39:44 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

B-lie-den’s lips are moving.


6 posted on 02/06/2023 8:40:41 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: MMusson
To put it mildly, this story strains credulity. One might ask why the administration was putting out the information that it happened during the Trump administration when the former president was never made aware of the spy balloon’s existence.

Why? Because democrats are the scum of the earth.

7 posted on 02/06/2023 8:40:59 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Leaning Right
The lie will be on page 1. Everyone will see and repeat it. The retraction will be on page 18, below the bowling scores.

Ding,ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

8 posted on 02/06/2023 8:42:36 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only thing the Biden administration hasn’t accused the Trump administration of ALSO doing, is the sniffing of little girls hair and pinching their nipples under their dresses. But, give them time.


9 posted on 02/06/2023 8:44:15 AM PST by adorno
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RE: The only thing the Biden administration hasn’t accused the Trump administration of ALSO doing, is the sniffing of little girls hair and pinchi

Shhhh.... don’t give them ideas...


10 posted on 02/06/2023 8:45:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

yeah thats the ticket


11 posted on 02/06/2023 8:45:49 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps high ranking American military leaders had a private agreement with Mainland China officials not to keep the U.S. President in the loop on Red Chinese spying.


12 posted on 02/06/2023 8:47:01 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Leaning Right
The lie will be on page 1. Everyone will see and repeat it. The retraction will be on page 18, below the bowling scores.

Exactly what I was thinking. They got what they wanted. Every leftist will claim that the Chinese flew balloons previously and Trump did nothing. Like the media (see Tagline), leftists have no interest in the truth.

13 posted on 02/06/2023 8:47:01 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Well, all “seventeen intelligence communities” were pretty upset and out of control that night Clintoon had to cancel her fireworks extravaganza. They decided that, although they would still accept a government paycheck, they weren’t going to work for Trump.


14 posted on 02/06/2023 8:48:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: SeekAndFind
They got hoisted on their own petard. Once Ratcliffe, Pompeo, and Esper came out saying they were never briefed on these incursions, Deep State had to come up with a reason why. The new story is that Deep State didn't discover the three incursions until after Trump left office, hence they could not have briefed his team.

This raises new questions. When did Deep State know about these incursions and did they brief Congress and Biden? The more lies they tell, the more questions need to be answered.

15 posted on 02/06/2023 8:56:24 AM PST by kabar
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To: SeekAndFind
...how did the intelligence agencies “discover” the information that the balloons flew over our territory years after the fact?

Simple. The records of all those earlier Chinese incursions into the USA were on classified documents that Biden stole and had locked away at the Biden Library at the University of Delaware. Rogue intel agency spooks secretly penetrated the library under cover of darkness last week and "discovered" the long-hidden documents. They weren't supposed to be released until decades after The Demented One's death, but now we have the evidence.

16 posted on 02/06/2023 8:57:09 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump created the Space Force.
They are still in existence.
The signal coming from the balloon could have been intercepted or jammed. If they were ordered to do so.

My 2c: Biden was told to stand down and allow the CCP to fly over a bunch of military installations.


17 posted on 02/06/2023 8:57:17 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Leaning Right

The lie will be on page 1. Everyone will see and repeat it.
The retraction will be on page 18


“Well, it worked didn’t it?” - Harry Reid


18 posted on 02/06/2023 8:59:55 AM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Yeah, that’s the ticket!”

And Biden learned it from his wife, Morgan Fairchild!


19 posted on 02/06/2023 9:00:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Seventeen intelligence agencies, comprising the intelligence community, all suckling on the government teat.
20 posted on 02/06/2023 9:01:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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