Posted on 04/03/2023 10:39:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Chinese spy balloon that was allowed to spend a week flying over the U.S. was able to transmit secret intelligence to Beijing about several military bases “in real time,” according to a Monday morning news report.
Three unnamed officials told NBC News that Communist China was able to “gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites.”
The intel China gathered “was mostly from electronic signals,” according to NBC, “which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials said.”
The balloon could be remotely controlled, allowing it to loiter over military installations like Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Malmstrom is home to more than 3,000 Air Force personnel of the 341st Missile Wing. They operate three squadrons of Minuteman III nuclear missiles — one-third of our ground-based nuclear deterrent.
The balloon also spent a little time over Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Whiteman, by the way, is where the Air Force bases its only unit of B-2 Spirit stealth heavy bombers.
You’ll love this next part, also courtesy of NBC News. The Chinese spy balloon was able to report back to Beijing “despite U.S. efforts to block it.”
You know what would have put a stop to the spying?
Not by jamming the signal, which the story made no claims ever happened anyway. Not by playing hide-and-seek, which is only good against video spying and not the signals intel the balloon was gathering. And certainly not by publicly dithering over what to do.
The correct course of action, when a rival’s spy balloon flies into our airspace, is to shoot the thing down. That’s exactly what the Biden Administration finally did, after Beijing’s aircraft had finished its cross-country tour of the continental United States.
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f-—ing idiot
Can't 'make' what already IS (and always will be).
Chinese Spy Balloon Made Fools of the Biden Administration
No, Biden continues to make fools of us, because none of what happened there was accidental or even imbecilic on his part. He only plays the fool.
It’s what he was paid to do. He is the instrument of our national destruction, bought and paid for by Chairman Xi.
He has gotten a lot more than a lousy T-shirt for his services to America’s enemies.
Certainly sounds more dramatic rather than admitting that it was just an atmospheric weather balloon.....So yea, lets go with the spy narrative....LOL!
The results of an enhanced lie detector would be very interesting if Joe, Hunter, Obama, Milley, Austin, Pelosi, and McConnel would take turns in the seat. But then again, I suppose those things don’t happen to the elites in a banana republic!
Can somebody help me out here? From this photo, I can't see any propeller large enough to function at the alleged 68,000 feet nor is there any fuel tanks large enough to keep it going for all that time........
Espionage and treason are two crimes no longer punishable in the US, but it will still bite us in the ass. If we are not concerned about Chinese spy balloons, we should worry about the Chinese spies that daily cross our border.( An increase of 9000% since last year.)
CONFIRMED: The Biden administration continues to make fools out of the American people and the American people rejoice.
I don’t know - looks like solar panels to me.
I don’t know - looks like solar panels to me.
It wasn’t incompetance. It wasn’t safety concerns. He ALLOWED it to complete it’s mission. It’s treason and he should be impeached and tried for it.
It’s solar panels. And it wouldn’t take much of propeller to move it. I would be the view of the prop(s) are blocked by the panels.
RE: So yea, lets go with the spy narrative....LOL!
So, you believe it’s just an old fashioned weather balloon with no surveillance equipment?
No, the only question is whether the $$$ was prepaid, or if the check is on its way to some Biden Crime Family intermediary as we speak.
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