Posted on 02/09/2023 11:37:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Thursday defended President Biden’s reaction to the flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the United States and said he agreed with the president’s decision to shoot it down off the coast of South Carolina.
Romney said he was satisfied with answers he received from senior administration officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, at an all-senators classified briefing on the incident.
“My questions were satisfactorily answered and I believe the administration, the president, our military and our intelligence agencies acted skillfully and with care. At the same time, their capabilities are extraordinarily impressive,” Romney told reporters after the briefing.
Romney said the administration could have done some things differently but noted it’s always easy to second-guess decisions in hindsight.
“Was everything done 100 percent correctly? I can’t imagine that would be the case of almost anything we do,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
China owns much of TESLA. They have more of our space and other technology then these lying politicians will ever admit.
A multimillionaire who owns the company Tesla used to go into space has gov contracts for being a minority. These darn 8a minority owned companies are mostly trash without Gov hand out’s. For those of us who have fought for it freedom does not have that special flavor we once knew. Sadly, punks like Biden and Obama have trashed OUR USA. How did these lying pukes ever get TS security clearances? How about LIE Detectors? I HAD TO PASS A LIE DETECTOR FOR A TS.
At the risk of being flamed here is a possible reason for handling the balloon in the manner it was. Maybe we wanted the actual apparatii in the baloon. Shooting it down over land might cause damage making recovery unuseful. Shooting it down over the Pacific might make recovery impossible as the west coast has no continental shelf and depths reach a mile very wuickly. Shooting it down off the Carolinas made recovery of little damaged tech much more likely. Now was thiz worth exposing the US military bases and comms to Chinese tech? I don’t know but it that exposure was limited by countermeasures then this might explain the Admin’s actions.
Utah, please, get rid of this clown.
That settles it. Romney is an idjit!
The butt monkey speaks his usual wisdom...
Defending the indefensible. There is no rationale for letting a foreign countries spy equipment fly over our entire nation. Biden and Mitt 2 treasonous pricks.
I think he does it for free. So long as he bucks his own party, he gets his pitcher in the papers.
Just become a Democrat already, Pierre. We all know you’re A rat scum.
I’m really surprised he would do this. /s
Swampy-Rommy can go sink.
Romney’s nose gets darker by the day.
Mitt, you don’t belong here.
He’s a REAL,RINO or real democrat.
Very true as I would have downed any commie balloon as we killed any Chink we ran into across the border. From Obama to Biden look up the corporations we have lost to these rotten punks. Both of these POS have become rich by selling you, me, and all Americans out. How did Obozzo get the money to live near the Kennedy family? He sold us out. Hang him and Biden.
Agree.
Romney is a Moron (sic), right?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.