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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: Oldeconomybuyer
Laughable.

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.

21 posted on 02/06/2023 1:39:56 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
helped identify last week’s spy balloon

I thought some guy with bino's in Montana identified it for Norad?

22 posted on 02/06/2023 1:40:51 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Yea, people could see the thing with cell phones. The media eats up their crap


23 posted on 02/06/2023 1:41:48 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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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?


24 posted on 02/06/2023 1:42:11 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Willard & Mabel staring at the Montana sky is “improved surveillance?”


25 posted on 02/06/2023 1:42:23 PM PST by daler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sighting first reported by a news organization in Montana. Billings Gazette took the first pictures.


26 posted on 02/06/2023 1:42:26 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah. It’s called “Looking up.”


27 posted on 02/06/2023 1:42:35 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Ministry of Propaganda has spoken.


28 posted on 02/06/2023 1:44:08 PM PST by SubVet72
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, that’s the ticket...


29 posted on 02/06/2023 1:44:35 PM PST by OKSooner (War is a racket. COVID-19 is a racket.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


30 posted on 02/06/2023 1:44:41 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the Dem faithful believe this crap.


31 posted on 02/06/2023 1:45:47 PM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

yeah

thats the ticket


32 posted on 02/06/2023 1:46:16 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The balloon could be seen with the naked eye...ROFL...

Biden’s “enhanced” security order...”Open your eyes”...


33 posted on 02/06/2023 1:46:17 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Texas resident

“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.


34 posted on 02/06/2023 1:46:35 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: TonyinLA

There is no both 1 and 2 answer or All of the above….


35 posted on 02/06/2023 1:46:57 PM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought an Inuit mother of four spotted it snowmobiling to Grocery Hut.


36 posted on 02/06/2023 1:47:06 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

And the story changes again. This is now V 5.0

37 posted on 02/06/2023 1:48:00 PM PST by pfflier
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To: TnTnTn

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?


38 posted on 02/06/2023 1:48:15 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2196041-hawkward-expert-birdwatchers-misidentify-common-birds-as-rarities/


39 posted on 02/06/2023 1:49:04 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: Oldeconomybuyer
Hey! Bucko, this is no longer TRUMP’s administration. The
powers are (supposedly) SloJo’s. Continuing to compare
this to that (TRUMP’s administration) only confirms our
suspensions as to how inept your actions actually are.
You are not now nor ever will be a TRUMP replacement.
40 posted on 02/06/2023 1:49:23 PM PST by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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