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White House: We Don’t Know Enough to Take Down Drone over Ocean
Breitbart ^ | 14 Dec 2024 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 12/14/2024 9:20:23 AM PST by conservative98

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that shooting down one of the mysterious drones over the ocean can’t be done because “we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we’re dealing with here and we just don’t know enough” to do something like that.

Host Martha MacCallum asked, “Why not just take one down and figure out what’s going on?”

Kirby responded, “Well, okay, the idea of taking something down, again, you’ve got — you want to worry about public safety. First of all, we don’t have enough conclusions to take that kind of a policy action. But let’s just assume for a minute, Martha, that we did. You’re not going to want to shoot something down where it could hit somebody’s house or hurt somebody.”

MacCallum then cut in to ask, “Well, the Coast Guard says that there are 30 of them following one of their ships in the ocean. So, would that work?”

Kirby answered, “Again, we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we’re dealing with here and we just don’t know enough to make those kinds of — to take those kinds of actions.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: South Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: biden; bidensamerica; coastguard; drones; gaslighting; gaslightingp; johnkirby; knownunknowns; nationalsecurity; newjersey; newsfromgroversmill; ocean; shootthemdown; surrender; trump; unknownunknowns; weneedtrump; whereshunter
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1 posted on 12/14/2024 9:20:23 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Kirby is a pathological liar.


2 posted on 12/14/2024 9:20:39 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

I doubt if they’ve even tried to take one down.


3 posted on 12/14/2024 9:22:16 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: conservative98

He knows that he does’t know. We are making progress.


4 posted on 12/14/2024 9:22:52 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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“we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we’re dealing with here and we just don’t know enough”“we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we’re dealing with here and we just don’t know enough”

This reminds me of the excuses the NYC Department of Public Works gave for why they couldn't fix the Wollman Skating Rink.

5 posted on 12/14/2024 9:23:07 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: conservative98

The whole works are liars.

So what else is new.

Question is..why? What are they doing?


6 posted on 12/14/2024 9:23:38 AM PST by crz
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Interwebz rumor is they’re U.S. gov’t drones sniffing for a nuke which was smuggled into the country.

Dangerous month ahead and just hope Trump can get into office.


7 posted on 12/14/2024 9:23:49 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Shoot one down over land so you can maybe find out where it came from and what it is....


8 posted on 12/14/2024 9:24:24 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Maybe a few rocket launches and blown up buildings will convince him.


9 posted on 12/14/2024 9:24:58 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore. And resources, )
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To: conservative98

I’m guessing this is a classified SAP (Special Access Program) which is being run by one of the intel agencies and which cannot be publicly acknowledged.


10 posted on 12/14/2024 9:25:18 AM PST by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel)
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“we have to develop the policy options”

The first policy option to pick is to fire anyone who says “we have to develop the policy options”.

Lol.


11 posted on 12/14/2024 9:25:38 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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That is probably part of it—but remember some of these sightings are in England and other non US areas.


12 posted on 12/14/2024 9:26:37 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: JBW1949

Since most of these reported “mystery drones” are actually planes it would be a bad idea to shoot at them especially if they were low during take off and landing.


13 posted on 12/14/2024 9:27:16 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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The electric motors that power these things are made of feris metal, therefore, they have a “signature” on radar. They can be shot down at sea, in fact, it should have already happened.


14 posted on 12/14/2024 9:27:35 AM PST by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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Then shoot it down and find out.

They’re lying anyways.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 9:27:41 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Hard to believe he was a rear admiral, but then of course the last few administrations, sans DJT, either promoted idiots, butt kissers, weirdos, woketards, etc. to the highest levels. So....that explains his and many others of his ilk, of their rise to infamy.


16 posted on 12/14/2024 9:27:54 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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Anything flying without following FAA protocols should be shot down—basic national security.


17 posted on 12/14/2024 9:28:49 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: conservative98

Too bad nobody wants to shoot one down and find out..

Trump calls for mystery drones to be shot down
The Hill ^ | 13 December 2024 | Juliann Ventura
Posted on 12/13/2024, 2:40:59 PM by Alas Babylon!

President-elect Trump:

Donald Trump Drone sightings: What we know amid more observations in Northeast, calls for answers Cuban says he ignored notes from Harris campaign Warren on RFK Jr. pick: ‘Say goodbye to your smile and say hello to polio’

More(Donald Trump) on Friday evening called for authorities to shoot down the mysterious drones that have been seen in the skies of New Jersey and around the country.

He also suggested the government must know more about the mysterious sightings.

“Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shot them down!!!

DJT” the incoming president wrote on Truth Social.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


18 posted on 12/14/2024 9:29:13 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches anything. (outofsalt))
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We shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the ocean because of not wanting to shoot down over land.

How is this a different situation? I can see not wanting to shoot it over land. But it should be an easy decision to shoot down over the ocean. Why the reluctance?


19 posted on 12/14/2024 9:32:05 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Kirby is a pathological liar.

That's what the Navy gave him an admiralty for. He was in the PR department and rewarded for his ability to lie.

-PJ

20 posted on 12/14/2024 9:32:51 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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