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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Opps!
1984.
Such lies
Yeah because the guy in Montana who filmed it (a civilian no less) is always my first line of defense
And our economy
Leave it to AP to try and put lipstick on the pig.
Improved surveillance like the one he has at his home.
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
People on the ground saw it.
A guy named “Daryl” smoking weed and salmon in Alaska.
Biden now claims he wanted to shoot it down when it was first noticed, but his military advisers told him to wait until it was over water.
Wasn’t it over water after it cross over the Aleutian islands?
Sorry, Joe, but your version of events are suspect.
Is Biden saying that a 200 foot tall balloon with a payload of 2,000 pounds with a “jetliner type of size” could not be picked-out by NORAD during Trump’s tenure? First, that is BS.
Second, if it were admitted by NORAD that they had fingered the balloon and never reported it, the head of the operation at that time should be brought up on charges.
Garbage!!!
Navy divers have discovered that it not a weather balloon, but is instead one of XI’s discarded condoms after effing the Biden Administration. Everyone knows there is no such thing as too much protection when engaging a Biden.
So they shot it down after it had flown through Alaska, BC, then Idaho and into Montana? 4500 miles and you engage it. New and improved.
If they had enhanced their capability to detect it, why didn’t they stop it before it got in the country?
AGREED
Biden cannot ‘spot a full diaper’.
So goes modern (corrupt) journalism.
Remember, these clowns are also pushing electric cars and human induced climate change. They are journalists primarily because they were incapable of passing the most elementary science courses in university.
.....After a guy with a cell phone in Billings noticed the balloon.
That’s some high-tech gadgetry there. I wonder why nobody noticed the other supposed balloons
Then it should have been shot down over Alaska.
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