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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Exactly. And Milley is not in the chain of command. They should do away with the “Chiefs of staff”.
But again this is a dork that Trump insisted in choosing over the objections of many other advisors.
Well so far what we know is, three flyovers, three locations, and there is no report or record of it happening.So, Do they just make things up and hope it sticks?
Or they kept nothing from Trump because no Chinese balloons flew over the USA when Trump was president. It’s fake news to deflect from Biden’s failures and weakness.
Milley, a lip stick wearing sycophant who apparently never spent a minute in actual combat, did the dem’s bidding by hamstringing PDJT at every turn [like not pulling troops out of Syria despite direct orders, planning to warn chinese generals in the event of a US military action, piling on the ginned up ‘russkie’ interference in elections, and on and on].
Now that he followed their [and CCP’s] orders to allow the spycraft to fully complete its mission before downing it in the oceans to impede and prevent recovery, his lefty priests want to hang this debacle around his neck. So this is what they mean by democrap loyalty.
It was incompetence on their part. They underestimated American voters and did not plan enough election fraud. I guess they were too pussy to murder him.
Exactly. And Milley is not in the chain of command. They should do away with the “Chiefs of staff”.
But again this is a dork that Trump insisted in choosing over the objections of many other advisors.
The generals I knew were all about the next mission, the next battle. All we have today are Courtney Massengales, instead of Sam Damons.
“So who at the Department of Defense leaked this?”
No leak. Fiction was created.
You are right. It is all just a pack of lies.
So what’s going on with Nissan and his hiding classified documents as a senator and farce president??
They all wanted plausible deniability.
The Deep Deep Deep State, hard at work again
“I have never understood why the national security establishment allowed Trump to become president.”
They could not even wrap their heads around the idea that DJT could/would beat PIAPS. If there was even an inkling that that could happen, they would have interceded.
It is surprising that they didn’t assassinate him between the election and his inauguration, though.
Excellent point. More than a few people kept Trump out of the loop. They all need to be exposed and held accountable.
In journalism what?
The creep factor is big with Pompeo.
He is angling for a veep nomination.
“I suspect the reason nobody of significance was informed is because unlike this incident, those balloons were of no significance. Probably small, disposable balloons with a radiosonde or some other lightweight instrument package...”
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That may well be, but we still need to know the history behind theses balloons. And what we’re going to do about the next one before it traverses the country.
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