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White House: Improved surveillance caught Chinese balloon
The Associated Press ^ | February 6, 2023 | By ZEKE MILLER, LOLITA C. BALDOR and AAMER MADHANI

Posted on 02/06/2023 1:31:47 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that after Biden took office, the U.S. “enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect.”

Speaking at the event hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Sullivan added that as part of those efforts “we were able to go back and look at the historical patterns” and uncover “multiple instances” during the Trump administration in which Chinese surveillance balloons traversed American airspace and territory.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: balloon; balloongate; bidenvoters; bs; fake; giantradarreflector; news
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To: 1Old Pro

Another armchair “general” who couldn’t fight pack of girl scouts.


101 posted on 02/06/2023 4:05:11 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WHAT A CROCK OF SH!T!


102 posted on 02/06/2023 4:13:06 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lie du jour.


103 posted on 02/06/2023 4:13:34 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: TomServo

Improved surveillance: Somebody done lookeded up, duh.


104 posted on 02/06/2023 4:14:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Howie66

Exactly. Hell, NORAD can track a small sleigh over the entire planet.


105 posted on 02/06/2023 4:21:20 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Surveillance balloons see and track everything except themselves.


106 posted on 02/06/2023 4:22:18 PM PST by aspasia
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To: JBW1949

Like Kamala didn’t know you could see craters in the moon with your bare eyes.


107 posted on 02/06/2023 4:24:48 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you read this kind of verbal diarrhea from Jake the Snake, aided and abetted by AP, you have to appreciate just how stupid they think the Average American must be. And the sad part is, so many Americans will swallow it down and think it’s ice cream.


108 posted on 02/06/2023 4:26:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In a brief exchange with reporters, Biden expressed his continued displeasure with Beijing. Asked why China launched the balloon over the U.S., he replied simply, “Because they’re the Chinese.”

I thought they weren't any threat from previous statements by Brandon.

109 posted on 02/06/2023 4:35:27 PM PST by xp38
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To: R0CK3T
Lying to us with such contempt that Goebbels himself would be a an eternally jealous Fan.

He might not be much of a fan, because the propaganda being constantly fed to us to keep the "Biden Administration" afloat is usually juvenile, criminally stupid, and easily fact-checked.

110 posted on 02/06/2023 4:48:49 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Improved bribery of Brandon caught his son in the cookie jar but nothing will come of it, as usual.


111 posted on 02/06/2023 5:00:25 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of traitors)
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To: Howie66

What a crock!


112 posted on 02/06/2023 7:45:22 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconceptions.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sullivan is a pathological liar and fool. Our continental and islands radar systems, plus those on ships as seas (both ours and those of our allies) and space satellites, provide worldwide coverage of enemy aerial launches.

Why use an explosive warhead on a missile which can destroy the balloons equipment which we would want to look at, when a couple bullets can create enough holes to let it more slowly descend in one piece, over land or water, for a softer landing and less damage to its electronic?

Our military is led by a bunch of lying fools and cowards at the PC/Woke top.


113 posted on 02/06/2023 8:11:50 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration."

...and none of the other affected fly-over countries detected it?
114 posted on 02/06/2023 9:22:18 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OOOOOOHHHHH,NOW I GET WHAT THIS WHOLE “BALOONS WERE INVADING US EN MASSE” WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS IN OFFICE.....

NOW, THE BIDEN SUPERHEROES HAVE CORRECTED ALL THAT AND ARE AWARE OF INVADING BALOONS.

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!


115 posted on 02/06/2023 9:34:10 PM PST by Maris Crane
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