Posted on 02/06/2023 2:52:47 PM PST by conservative98
After the Biden administration reportedly said they would like to brief former Trump officials of three alleged prior Chinese spycraft flyovers of North America, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed he had never heard of such operations while he was in office and demanded answers.
On "The Story," anchor Martha MacCallum reported Biden officials have disclosed three prior flyovers of Chinese surveillance balloons, with the caveat that they were not discovered until after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.
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"I can speak for myself: I certainly never became aware that there was a three-bus-sized floating device coming across our country for five days, either CIA director or secretary of state [and] I've talked to others who are on my teams – They don't know anything about it either," he said.
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"This accusation is deeply dangerous that somehow the military hid from its political command and its political authority information that was vital to American security."
MacCallum later noted that while former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper also said he was never aware of the three reported flyovers, two relevant officials who have not spoken out are Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis, Ret., one of Trump's Pentagon chiefs.
Pompeo said neither Milley – who he noted is still in his top military adviser role – nor former Secretary Mattis have spoken out as to whether they knew of the Trump-era Chinese spycraft flyovers.
"I would be shocked if General Mattis knew about it and hadn't shared that with either the CIA director or the secretary of state," he said.
Earlier Monday, House Armed Services Committee member Michael Waltz, R-Fla., echoed calls for Mattis to speak publicly as to whether he had knowledge of the reported flyovers.
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Navy divers have discovered that it not a weather balloon, but is instead one of XI’s discarded condoms after effing the Biden Administration. Everyone knows there is no such thing as too much protection when engaging a Biden.
Yeah, recall that Milley admitted he told the Chinese that he’d give them a heads up if Trump started anything. The guy absolutely should have been court martialed on the spot and probably hung. That was a gross violation of the US Constitution.
I believe one could make case that Milley, Pelosi, and Schumer had removed Trump from the actual chain of military command on and after 6/01/2020. An outright coup?
If you’re not familiar with the man, do some research.
Its a two-fer for the dems.
The dems will claim that not only did Chinese balloon incursions happen on Trump’s watch but that our military didn’t dare tell Trump about it because everyone knows Trump is nuts.
There needs to be a serious housecleaning. Given the number of intelligence agencies there is a huge duplication of effort and cost. Our national security depends on efficiency and effectiveness. A major component to that is effective communications. It is not possible to have effective communications with so many intelligence agencies. That was supposedly a lesson learned from 9/11. I completely suspect our intelligence operations are magnitudes worse today than they were prior to 9/11.
Redundant intelligence operations need to be eliminated and then combined into one agency. The deep state needs to be eliminated. There should be zero spying on American citizens. All of the NSA should be abolished.
At this point, our government is a greater threat to freedom than any foreign power.
Jim W N appears clueless as to Pompeo’s background and fierce loyalty to Trump.
Video interview has more. He was asked any possibility the military kept this from you or the President? He said it was UNIMAGIBLE it would be kept from leadership in the Whitehouse (Trump) or from the State Department or the CIA. Because Pompeo was CIA director most of the time Mattis was Secretary of Defense.
I find no problem believing that fully Modern Milley was colluding with the Chinese. Call me when he is convicted of treason and sentenced to the guillotine. I will pay to pull the cord. Of course, I’ll probably be outbid by millions of fellow citizens who were actually faithful to the country and would love to give that fat ass justice.
The typical goons kept it from Trump because they didnt want Trump to hurt their beloved Xi’s lil balloon and besides, if Trump had had the balloon shot down, they didnt want him to get credit for it
The entire narrative is a bold face lie in order to deflect blame from Biden. This is how these people operate. Nothing honest about any of them.
Earlier....REPORTER: “How is it possible that this administration discovered at least three previous balloons that flew over the US under the previous administration, but Trump officials didn’t know it was happening?”
KJP: “Yeah, so, look, I think that uh, and we have talked about this...”
Pompeo is essentially calling this claim from the Biden admin BS on Fox.
If the supposed information which Biden’s goons are publicly pointing at was too classified to make public then why did they point at it? ......unless it’s all just a heaping pile of excrement.
I have never understood why the national security establishment allowed Trump to become president. The only theory I can think of is that they thought they had enough dirt on Trump to be able to control him. They were wrong - Trump turned out to be the Honey Badger.
Clearly they have enough on Biden to control him.
The latest story now is that nobody knew about the other three balloons until puddinghead personally increased our nation’s ability to detect chinese balloons. No joke, this is their latest version.
MSM throwing everything at the fan
to bury this. These’s alot more to this
balloon bulls*ht.
Remember Milley bragghed about calling his China counterpart and told them that if Trump ordered a strike on China that Milliey would notify them in advance, and that they should not take Trump’s bellicose statements seriously. Traitor, Insubordinate, bastard.
They kept the old balloons in Bi-Sh*t’s garage. That’s why it took so long to remember where they were, if it ever actually happened....
Complete and utter rubbish! Any of you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you!
Agree!!!
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