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Biden Admin Planned to Keep Chinese Spy Balloon News Secret From the Public — and Even Congress: Report
New York Post ^ | Dec. 23, 2023 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 12/23/2023 6:41:11 PM PST by nickcarraway

The Biden administration planned to keep the Chinese spy balloon that traveled across North America this year a secret from the public and even from Congress — and only came clean after civilians saw the massive white orb over Montana, according to a damning new report.

“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” a former senior US official told NBC News Friday, nearly 11 months after the balloon penetrated American airspace and began a meandering week-long tour of sensitive military sites.

When the North American Aerospace Defense Command saw the huge spycraft enter US airspace over Alaska Jan. 27, commander Gen. Glen VanHerck called Gen. Mark Milley, President Biden’s top military adviser, to flag the administration on the alarming intrusion.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: balloon; bidenadm; censorship; china; donate; freerepublic; secret; spyballoon
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1 posted on 12/23/2023 6:41:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
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That balloon must of had something to do with Hunter Biden.


2 posted on 12/23/2023 6:45:39 PM PST by Fai Mao ( IOStarve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: nickcarraway
Stupid, slacking, FBI. If they were at all worthwhile, they would have eliminated all those pesky citizens poking their noses where they don't belong (in the sky above them).

Poor Ol' Double-Scoop, surrounded by incompetents.

3 posted on 12/23/2023 6:56:58 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: nickcarraway

Those chicom bribes are payin’ off.


4 posted on 12/23/2023 7:00:29 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway

Doesn’t anyone remember the flaming ball of wreckage coming down in Montana? I saw it on Twitstorm. That one is down the memory hole. Only the one downed on the East Coast is thus far “official”. Damn this administration has been sold out.


5 posted on 12/23/2023 7:01:44 PM PST by The Free Engineer
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shooting that balloon down with a missile was military malpractice.

They could have taken it down with guns for a slow deflation which would have given us a the entire system relatively intact

Could have done a lot “studying” that way.

6 posted on 12/23/2023 7:02:03 PM PST by rdcbn1
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But Biden himself was not informed until Jan. 31, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was too “focused” on a diplomatic trip to Asia to pay heed, according to multiple officials in the administration and Congress.


That makes me feel so protected. Not!


7 posted on 12/23/2023 7:07:16 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: Fai Mao

Did the big guy get 10% too?


8 posted on 12/23/2023 7:19:16 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: nickcarraway

pretty hard to do when it was seen wi binos...


9 posted on 12/23/2023 7:22:04 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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pretty hard to do when it was seen wi binos...

I don't think they were counting on people taking pictures of the thing.

10 posted on 12/23/2023 7:30:38 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

Yep, that treasonous prick let that it go across the entire country sending IQ the whole way.


11 posted on 12/23/2023 7:34:28 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Steely Tom

nope...


12 posted on 12/23/2023 7:39:23 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: gibsonguy

Treasonous bastard handled by Barrack & Company.


13 posted on 12/23/2023 7:39:25 PM PST by gathersnomoss (End This Attack On Justice.)
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To: Libloather
Those chicom bribes are payin’ off.

Sure looks that way. Biden is such a lowlife.

14 posted on 12/23/2023 7:39:26 PM PST by GOPJ (Surgery doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing a Gorilla costume turns a man into an ape.)
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To: nickcarraway

RE: let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,

So do that with bribes to Bidens from foreign officials, widespread vote count fraud and facts showing climate change is not man made? Just keep the little secrets?


15 posted on 12/23/2023 9:48:50 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Gee, I wonder why?
16 posted on 12/23/2023 9:58:35 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: nickcarraway

Joe was working hard to keep the 10% from China thing going.


17 posted on 12/23/2023 11:35:03 PM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Fai Mao

No, Covid.


18 posted on 12/24/2023 12:32:40 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: nickcarraway

Biden accepted $ millions in secret payments from the CCP.

Biden covered up the CCP spy balloon and allowed the spy balloon to complete its mission.

This is espionage, and Biden is a Chinese agent.


19 posted on 12/24/2023 1:51:58 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: nickcarraway

Obammy is responsible for making the whole federal gub mint horse shit.
Fbi and justice dept the worst.


20 posted on 12/24/2023 5:36:17 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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