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Trump Created A DOJ Task Force Protecting U.S. From Chinese Spy Balloons, Joe Biden Shut It Down Over Racism
dcenquirer.com ^ | 2/6/2023 | Reed Cooper

Posted on 02/06/2023 5:40:07 PM PST by bitt

As the American people pay attention to a suspected Chinese spy balloon being shot down by a U.S. military fighter aircraft on Saturday after floating across the whole United States, it has been revealed that this has all been made possible by President Joe Biden.

In 2018, 45th President Donald Trump put in place a program that identified and prosecuted Chinese threats to national security just like the Chinese spy balloon.

In February 2022, The Biden administration ended Trump’s program, named the “China Initiative,” because it was called racist by Asian-American groups.

“We helped give rise to a harmful perception that the department applies a lower standard to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct related to that country or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic, or family ties to China differently,” Biden’s Assistant Attorney General in charge of the National Security Division, Matt Olsen, said.

In a post shared by Justin Cap, the “@MagaIncWarRoom” account on Twitter wrote, “President Trump created a task force within the DOJ to combat Chinese Espionage in our country. Joe Biden shut down that task force. Let that sink in.”

When asked if the U.S. government will ever shoot down the surveillance aircraft, after letting the balloon float across the entire country, Biden said, “We’re gonna take care of it.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018; 202202; balloongate; biden; bidenvoters; china; chinainitiative; chineseballoons; joebiden; pdjt; spies; spooks; spyballoon; spying; trump
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1 posted on 02/06/2023 5:40:07 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 02/06/2023 5:40:19 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt
More proof that:
The only good communists are dead communists...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as they can be...
3 posted on 02/06/2023 6:00:53 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: bitt

How can it be racist? China is a country. It would be racist if it targeted the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, ect also.


4 posted on 02/06/2023 6:10:00 PM PST by jimpick
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To: bitt

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/doj-abandons-trump-era-program-aimed-chinese-spying-rcna17406


5 posted on 02/06/2023 6:12:30 PM PST by HollyB
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To: jimpick

“How can it be racist?....”

I think under the new rules now you are the racist one for even questioning it.

Sorry...


6 posted on 02/06/2023 6:17:28 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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I’m astonished this isn’t the Bee


7 posted on 02/06/2023 6:20:39 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bitt

The China initiative

https://www.justice.gov/archives/nsd/information-about-department-justice-s-china-initiative-and-compilation-china-related


8 posted on 02/06/2023 6:26:50 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Thank you, HollyB.

DOJ abandons Trump-era program aimed at Chinese spying

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Feb. 23, 2022, 12:03 PM PST
By Pete Williams and Ken Dilanian
The Justice Department is ending its China Initiative, a program that Asian-American groups said contributed to bias against Chinese immigrants and Americans of Chinese descent and that resulted in some high-profile prosecutorial failures.

Launched under the Trump administration and intended to identify and prosecute Chinese threats to national security, it also led to criminal charges against researchers and academics that collapsed.

“Make no mistake. We will be relentless in defending our country from China,” said Matt Olsen, the assistant attorney general in charge of the national security division. But he said “a new approach is needed to tackle the most severe threats from a range of hostile nation-states.”

Olsen said a three-month review, including discussions with the FBI and other intelligence agencies, research agencies and universities, convinced him that the initiative was too narrowly focused. He said representatives of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities said the program contributed to a rise in bias against them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/doj-abandons-trump-era-program-aimed-chinese-spying-rcna17406


9 posted on 02/06/2023 6:28:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Oh sorry. I thought I was racist already since I am white. I must be double secret racist now.


10 posted on 02/06/2023 6:33:14 PM PST by jimpick
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To: bitt; Fred Nerks
US Navy and Marines

US Army

US Air Force

US Space Force ( President Donald Trump)

US BALLOON FORCE

( Pseudo President Joe Biden)


11 posted on 02/06/2023 6:35:59 PM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: HollyB

It appears they changed the name and focus

strategy for countering nation-state threats

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-matthew-olsen-delivers-remarks-countering-nation-state-threats

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen Delivers Remarks on Countering Nation-State Threats
Washington, DC ~ Wednesday, February 23, 2022


12 posted on 02/06/2023 6:42:12 PM PST by HollyB
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To: bitt

Once it reached the Atlantic Coast there wasn’t much benefit to the Chinese for it to continue. It had already served its purpose. Thanks Joe.

Next thing we’ll hear from Joe is how he single handed flew in close and drilled that balloon full of holes, then hit the afterburners and took it home.

Our Joe. Swoon, swoon.


13 posted on 02/06/2023 6:48:43 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Candor7

Don't worry Joe-Joe is bringing in the reserves...




14 posted on 02/06/2023 6:57:09 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: bitt

Our government is under enemy occupation. Once you understand that then there is no need to question or be shocked or be surprised by anything they do.

Don’t forget when the Covid terror attack hit, Biden called Trump “Xenophobic” for stopping travel from China. Why? Because Biden works for China —> enemy occupation.

The thing is how the hell do we get out of this nightmare being that we no longer have legit elections? To me the solution is obvious: Round them all up, try them for treason, and once convicted execute them. Those involved in the Russia Collusion coup attempt should be the first tried, but of course this is just me fantasizing, it will never ever happen because the occupation also owns the media and education.


15 posted on 02/06/2023 7:00:19 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Candor7

What is that from?

Seems to me there’s also some film out there featuring WW1-era ships as mammoth airships. I caught just a couple moments years ago & never found out what it was


16 posted on 02/06/2023 8:44:09 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: bitt

What a hoot.


17 posted on 02/06/2023 10:58:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: HollyB
Joe Biden has so manifestly sold out to the Chinese Communist Party as has every institution of importance in America been to some degree compromised by the Chinese communist party, why then did Si send a balloon across the nation with limited espionage capacity when the clear effect would only be to galvanize the people of America against the growing Chinese threat?

No need for finding out what the American response would be, Biden has clearly demonstrated his fecklessness in Afghanistan and betrayed his vulnerability in direct negotiations with the Chinese. No need for the espionage obtained, satellites daily produce nearly the same images while humint and cyber monitoring have already pirated America's secrets.

Having corrupted virtually every American institution including academia, big sports, Hollywood, big media, big social media, Wall Street and much of Congress, why not wait for Taiwan and eventually even America to fall like ripe fruit into Chinese communists' hands?

Why poke a sleeping giant?


18 posted on 02/07/2023 12:00:46 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: HKMk23

What is that from? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Google images:

“images of steampunk airships”


19 posted on 02/07/2023 5:09:16 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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To: Songcraft

GO BALLOON BRANDON!!!


20 posted on 02/07/2023 5:10:46 AM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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