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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But it does avoid uncomfortable questions about the military and intel agencies not followin the chain of command.
The only thing to make it better would be if they had Biden flying the F-22 himself and shooting the balloon down.
I thought some guy with bino's in Montana identified it for Norad?
Yea, people could see the thing with cell phones. The media eats up their crap
Bahahahahaha…so they can see back into the past with their new tech…bahahahahaha…do they think ANYTHING they say is credible except to cnn, msnbc etc?
Willard & Mabel staring at the Montana sky is “improved surveillance?”
Sighting first reported by a news organization in Montana. Billings Gazette took the first pictures.
Yeah. It’s called “Looking up.”
The Ministry of Propaganda has spoken.
Yeah, that’s the ticket...
Theories:
1. Bi-sh*t and gang are bought off chinese agents. They knew the balloon was coming, where it would go, and they followed their orders not to shoot it down until it was over the ocean and far more difficult to recover anything useful / allow chinese divers to get there first.
2. Bi-sh*t and gang believe themselves so smart they knew the balloon was coming, where it would go, and allowed it to complete its mission to press up tensions for the coming attack on China via Taiwan [which they intend to spend 10x as WW2 and still lose as the Chinese now have sufficient intel to neuter US military capabilities], as a distraction to the Ukes being overrun by the russkies and the utter and complete failure of the western response [sanctions, weapons, $$$$$, etc].
Problem is that Bi-Sh*t and gang’s decisions and behavior satisfy both theories.
And the Dem faithful believe this crap.
yeah
thats the ticket
The balloon could be seen with the naked eye...ROFL...
Biden’s “enhanced” security order...”Open your eyes”...
“Yes he is but he doesn’t know that he is lying.”
Then he hasn’t known it since the day he first learned to speak. He’s been a liar and a grifter his entire life.
There is no both 1 and 2 answer or All of the above….
I thought an Inuit mother of four spotted it snowmobiling to Grocery Hut.
And the story changes again. This is now V 5.0
Exactly! How did they use this enhanced b.s to go back in time and see what was happening in the sky while they were stealing elections?
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