Posted on 02/07/2023 6:36:35 PM PST by conservative98
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who serves on House Foreign Affairs Committee, was, to say the least, unimpressed by the Biden administration’s classified briefing on the China spy balloon and blasted the briefing as “unspecific, insufficient, and backward-looking.”
Senior administration officials conducted the briefing in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF). Not only did the briefing fail to provide adequate information on the spy balloon that was shot down, but no evidence of Chinese spy balloons taking place during the Trump administration was presented.
“What I took away from this briefing confirmed that this administration and not the previous one had plenty of advance warning of an escalating Chinese espionage program, failed to act, and has now humiliated this country on the world stage,” Issa told Fox News Digital.
The Biden administration claimed on Saturday after the balloon was shot down that similar incidents had happened under “the previous administration,” though after several Trump officials disputed this claim, the story evolved to say that the incidents were only discovered after Trump left office. It’s a dubious story, and a classified briefing would have been an appropriate time to reveal the evidence that this actually happened — if this evidence even exists. That it didn’t cast even more doubt on the Biden administration’s story.
So, while the briefing failed to provide any evidence that spy balloons entered U.S. airspace under Trump, it did confirm that the Biden administration had not taken the opportunity to shoot it down over the water.
“U.S. officials have acknowledged they were monitoring this balloon since it flew over the Aleutian Islands – where it could have easily been shot down over water,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said in a statement. “This balloon should have never been allowed to enter
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Biden and his media, liars https://t.co/96hbY9lU5o— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) February 7, 2023
But they’ve chosen Truth over facts, so it doesn’t really matter.
Geez what a surprise. Unnamed sources fail again.
I’m old enough to remember when the fake news always said of Trump’s claims “he provided no evidence”.
But they stopped doing that with Biden. I wonder why?
I’m old enough to remember when the fake news always said of Trump’s claims “he provided no evidence”.
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Even when the newspaper in question had previously reported on it, and occasionally when there was specific documentation (Like a FISA Warrant).
It didnt happen under Trump. Trump would have spoken about it and not hid it.
If he would have tried to hide it, which he would not have, Deep state would have leaked it to damage/weaken him. Media would have gone ape poopy for months about it. A third attempt at impeachment would have been tried.
What a dumb thing to even lie about.
Deny, delay, and make counter-accusations. The old Clinton formula isn’t working.
Hillary can manufacture it for them.....
We're in heap big trouble with the RATS' new "woke", sexual deviant military.
Schiff is in there still making up stuff.
Hah. Yep, the De⋔s have got the Truth© registered, trademarked, and copyrighted; no one else can possibly arrive at their version of the "truth" with actual facts, it's theirs alone.
If it had happened people would have seen it. If they had seen it they would have commented.
So, show me the Twitter posts from 2017 to 2021 where people are talking about seeing a big ol balloon floating across the USA.
It doesn't have to be Twitter, I'll take fakebook, instagram, Youtube, Reddit, Quora, I will even accept ChiCom...eh sorry I mean TikTok.
Just show me the posts.
Bkmk
LOL!
There aren't any.
Biden is lying.
Again.
As usual.
Sharks bite, skunks stink, democRATs lie.
It's their nature, it's what they do.
Because it’s all BS.
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