Posted on 02/06/2023 1:31:47 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Monday that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that after Biden took office, the U.S. “enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect.”
Speaking at the event hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Sullivan added that as part of those efforts “we were able to go back and look at the historical patterns” and uncover “multiple instances” during the Trump administration in which Chinese surveillance balloons traversed American airspace and territory.
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Plesidernt Bilen my helo.
***that improvements ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses ***
Reminds me of a Russian history of the Russian army pushing back the nazis... in WW II. Every paragraph began with...”On the initiative of Stalin...”
And now....
“On the initiative of BIDEN...”
The hagiography of Biden by the Press continues.
That’s my understanding.
“Improved surveillance” was some random guy with a cellphone taking pictures and video of the balloon in the sky.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Caca del toro.
Bs
China and/or Ukraine will pay the legal fees
The payload was as large as an airliner, weighed many tons, and was fitted with self-destruct explosives [so much for the lefties ‘it’s a weather balloon’ nonsense]. How many surveillance systems could be fitted on something that size??
IF YOU ARE TO BELIEVE the gov., this is at least the 4th spy balloon. They said, and continue to claim, it was a ‘weather balloon’, didn’t know what it was for, would be too dangerous to down over a frozen, uninhabited tundra in Alaska, was too high to shoot at, and anyway PDJT did it first.
WHAT WE KNOW: Bi-Sh*t and gang had prior knowledge of chinese spy balloons, did literally ‘zero’ about it for a week, allowed it to fully complete its surveillance mission, and waited until it was over the ocean before downing it, ensuring the remnants would be dispersed widely and far more difficult to recover, and allow chinese divers a first crack.
If they weren’t following CCP orders, how exactly would Bi-Sh*t’s and the dems reaction be any different because NO-ONE is this brain dead?
Administration is full shi* and MORONS.
4 AP propagandists to write this BS.
Every day, he spews out more lies than the last.
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT
From the ass. press
These 5@#6ing POS!
Children running OUR country.
ARRRR!!!!!
Ap...you can shove it, real hard, a-holes!
They are trying to cover for the faggot chief.
Next version of the story: China was scouting locations for building a solar powered balloon factory in Montana.
Yeah, that as well. LOL
Agreed. LOL I was just keeping it clean as possible.
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