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Thanks to Schumer We Know Why They Didn't Take Out Balloon Instantly - It's What We All Feared
Western Journal ^

Posted on 02/13/2023 11:50:14 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

China’s intelligence capability may be even greater than we’ve feared.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed that the spy balloon that crossed the continental United States this month was redundant from an intelligence perspective, speaking on ABC News’ This Week Sunday.

(snip)

If Schumer is incorrect, or being deliberately deceitful

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: balloon; balloongate; bidengate; china; richardmoorhead; schumer; spyballoon
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With Schumer, the default assumption is bolded.
1 posted on 02/13/2023 11:50:14 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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China has one of the most advanced intelligence capabilities in the world, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And we believe them, why?...................

2 posted on 02/13/2023 11:54:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tench_Coxe

So, if one believes Schumer, they’ve been doing the overflights for shits and giggles. The American government would never blow smoke, would they?


3 posted on 02/13/2023 11:58:55 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Red Badger

“China has one of the most advanced intelligence capabilities in the world, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And we believe them, why?...................”

Because ever since the Clinton Administration, we helped them get EVERYTHING WE HAVE.


4 posted on 02/13/2023 11:59:42 AM PST by Dogbert41
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To: Tench_Coxe

The balloon is the prelude for an EMT attack.


5 posted on 02/13/2023 12:02:24 PM PST by exPBRrat
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To: Tench_Coxe

While it probably isn’t a secret to many, it truly is amazing how stupid these people are. Sneak, deceitful, greedy? Absolutely.

Smart and competent? Except for a small handful, they’re as dumb as dirt.


6 posted on 02/13/2023 12:02:45 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Tench_Coxe

You can believe anything a leftist says, or anyone who works in government. They have zero credibility.


7 posted on 02/13/2023 12:03:03 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Chuck Schumer blasted Trump when he cut their money train in trade deals Schumer is just another two faced lying democrat the democrats have helped China in many deals.


8 posted on 02/13/2023 12:03:09 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: exPBRrat

The balloon is the prelude for an EMT attack.

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Did they ever recover that one that they shot down off teh coast of S.Carolina?

You just made me wonder if they found something that has them worried, and why they are so aggressively shooting down new unidentified craft now..


9 posted on 02/13/2023 12:08:27 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: exPBRrat

Emergency Medical Technicians are going to attack us?


10 posted on 02/13/2023 12:10:48 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Lol!


11 posted on 02/13/2023 12:11:36 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Red Badger

China has one of the most advanced intelligence capabilities in the world because they have been accumulating some of the best scientists. China has been headhunting on a global scale for decades.


12 posted on 02/13/2023 12:17:14 PM PST by robel
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To: Dogbert41

Because they were sold the plans of OUR intelligence system by Gore, Clinton, Obama, Bidens, etc


13 posted on 02/13/2023 12:17:24 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: exPBRrat

I saw a YouTube video which made an interesting point. You can estimate the power requirement of the balloon’s payload by looking at the sixteen solar panels dangling beneath it. Those panels would produce far more power than would be needed for imaging or signals intelligence. So, what the balloon may have been carrying is a rather deep mystery.


14 posted on 02/13/2023 12:17:30 PM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: Red Badger

It’s well known their HUMINT is, at least, top tier.

Because dumb people trust Chinese Nationals that are well educated.

A weakness that is an essential threat to the country.


15 posted on 02/13/2023 12:19:35 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: qaz123
Smart and competent? Except for a small handful, they’re as dumb as dirt.

Other countries appear to have much smarter villains than we do. :)

16 posted on 02/13/2023 12:22:09 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Tench_Coxe

Schumer is not exactly the brightest bulb.


17 posted on 02/13/2023 12:23:13 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: V_TWIN

Electrical Metallic Tubing. ie, conduit.


18 posted on 02/13/2023 12:24:33 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: Tench_Coxe

Schumer probably has no idea what he is talking about. The first rule of electronic intelligence is: Never show your cards. Thank God, no one told Schumer what’s going on, or he did not understand. If I was director of the NSA, and heard that the Chinese were sending surveillance balloons over the U.S. to snope on our communications, I would think it was a godsend. I would feed them all the chickfeed they wanted along with a few healthy lumps of disinformation. Who’s the biggest threat to the U.S. in the Chinese military or government structure? I’d let it leak that he was actually a U.S. asset. That kind of hijinks. Where do we want them to misdirect their resources? Say, for instance that we have no intention of developing hi-power anti-missile lasers. I would make sure that they were convinced we are. And let it be known that we have agents in the Chinese military advancing this story. Let slip out that we will be fielding mach 6 hypersonic anti-ship missiles. Oh, the fun I would have!


19 posted on 02/13/2023 12:26:44 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Schumer may be a member of the Dem crowd who were paid off by China,,,,,follow the money.


20 posted on 02/13/2023 12:28:09 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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