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What Homeland Security? How Did Biden Admin Retroactively 'Discover' Chinese Balloons in the U.S During the Trump Years?
PJ Media ^ | 02/07/2023 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/07/2023 8:06:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration has been trying to plug a gigantic hole in their story about Chinese spy balloons flying over U.S. territory during the Trump administration with no one in the government aware of it.

Initially, the Biden administration sought to deflect attention from their failure to shoot down the balloon by noting that Chinese spy balloons transited U.S. territory three times during the Trump years. But when several Trump administration officials hotly denied that charge, Biden administration officials changed their story. They claimed that the balloons were only over U.S. territory briefly — skirting Hawaii and flying over part of Florida — unlike this latest spy balloon, which traversed the entire width of the country. They also claimed that the balloons weren’t detected.

But how do we know this if the balloons weren’t detected and national leaders weren’t informed of their presence?

The American military had a “domain awareness gap,” according to Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” VanHerck said. “And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”

What’s a “domain awareness gap”?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloonboybiden; china; spyballoon
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1 posted on 02/07/2023 8:06:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 02/07/2023 8:08:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are only three choices:

1. Incompetence.

2. Sedition.

3. Both.

Choose one...................


3 posted on 02/07/2023 8:09:35 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Their bosses in China told them.


4 posted on 02/07/2023 8:09:38 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: SeekAndFind
They had an eye witness.

Little Jamie saw a balloon 3 different times.


5 posted on 02/07/2023 8:09:46 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind

The Balloon Gap


6 posted on 02/07/2023 8:09:59 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Why are we wasting US intelligence resources in trying to detect something that happened at least two years ago? Is it something like, we know where the high tide stopped because we see the debris line, but we didn’t actually see the high tide? Sounds like a bunch of junk trying to find a happening by finding the ripples it left. And then, it’s not necessarily a valid conclusion.


7 posted on 02/07/2023 8:12:29 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: SeekAndFind

Why on earth would the government make public the fact they detected an aerial intruder and eliminated it. They have the authority to just shoot it down, say nothing and wait to see if anyone or any government has an issue with it. Publicizing it just open up another can of worms as we can see in this case.


8 posted on 02/07/2023 8:14:29 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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“..noting that Chinese spy balloons transited U.S. territory three times during the Trump years...”

If the truth be known, I believe that statement would be classified a complete fabrication - made out of whole cloth. The General should take a job with NYT or MSNBC.


9 posted on 02/07/2023 8:15:51 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: Red Badger

Mark Levin yesterday on his radio show was calling it treason. Someone covered it up when Trump was in office.


10 posted on 02/07/2023 8:20:52 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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China probably called up their fellow traveler and China enabler Joe Biden and told him to tell people that.


11 posted on 02/07/2023 8:23:53 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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RE: The Balloon Gap

Regaarding This mumbo jumbo about “Domain Awareness Gap”....

Bottom Line: With their back up against the wall - the ‘deep state’ is now suggesting that they’re simply incompetent when it comes to detecting foreign spy balloons in real time.


12 posted on 02/07/2023 8:26:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Apparently these lighter-than-air balloons can be seen from the ground with the naked eye or binoculars, although not with 21st century technology.

It is time to reorganize community sky and coast watch programs. Once again there will be Boy Scouts in towers scanning the skies for dark silhouettes of enemy aircraft and reporting positions and directions to ground units via semaphore.

This is the Biden years.

13 posted on 02/07/2023 8:28:04 AM PST by jeffersondem
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Pop go the weasels.


14 posted on 02/07/2023 8:31:53 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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This is like the classified documents. Biden was sloppy with them, so now everyone has classified docs.

The balloon flew over our country under biden’s watch, so they have to come out and say that there were overflights during Trump’s watch.

Like Clinton’s defense. Everybody does this. What is the big deal?


15 posted on 02/07/2023 8:33:49 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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51 'intelligence' thugs are publishing a letter saying the Chinese sent 400 balloons over the US when Trump was President - and Trump ignored them.

NOT that the 51 are filthy liars and traitors to every concept this country was built on... and NOT that 'intelligence' thugs think they're smarter than the people and think they should be a secret police or anything.

16 posted on 02/07/2023 8:40:55 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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IMO, this is an obvious fabrication to try and cover Biden...

What is utterly ridiculous and sad is that there are people who actually believe them....


17 posted on 02/07/2023 8:41:24 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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The American military had a “domain awareness gap,” according to Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.

An obvious attempt to try to claim "domain awareness" was not as good under Trump as it now is under Biden, which is likely complete BS.

18 posted on 02/07/2023 8:42:20 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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A DOMAIN AWARENESS GAP -

just wow


19 posted on 02/07/2023 8:44:53 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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Don't forget - the Biden family took a BILLION and a half dollars from the communist China regime while "groper Joe" was VP under Obama! You think his administration cares about America???

Proven in a video released of his top advisor (a military veteran) speaking out! Tony Bobulinski, ex-Hunter Biden associate, on Joe Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLfBRgeFFo

20 posted on 02/07/2023 8:48:45 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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