Biden Balloon Gate

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White House KNEW About the Chinese Spy Balloon and Covered It up — but Then…​

How cowardly and compromised is the Biden regime? We have fresh evidence of just how bad it is, courtesy of the Chinese spy balloon. The world found out about the now-infamous balloon on Thursday, when a Montana resident named Chase Doak spotted it and posted a video. But that was not the first that Old Joe Biden’s handlers heard of the balloon. Now it has come to light that they knew about it all along but kept the knowledge secret so as to avoid a confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party and keep Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s now-canceled trip to Beijing on track. Patriots can thank Chase Doak for the small show of spine from the Biden State Department that the cancellation represented.

“Not gonna lie,” Doak tweeted with his video. “First, I thought this was a #ufo. Then, I thought it was @elonmusk in a Wizard of Oz cosplay scenario. But it was just a run-of-the mill Chinese spy balloon!” But Bloomberg revealed in a bombshell report Friday that “as it turns out, US authorities were well aware of the unidentified object that had entered American airspace on Jan. 28, that had then left and re-entered over North Idaho on Tuesday.” But Blinken was slated to huddle with the ChiComs in Beijing, and Old Joe and his henchmen didn’t want to let something as trivial as what J. Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy terms “China’s military espionage incursion into the US” get in the way of a friendly tête-à-tête in the Forbidden City.

 

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Biden Administration Tried to Hide Chinese Spy Balloon from American Public​

Bloomberg News reported that the Biden administration was “well aware” that the balloon had entered U.S. airspace on Saturday, January 28, but decided to keep quiet about it so as not to ruin a planned trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China.

The outlet reported:

As it turns out, US authorities were well aware of the unidentified object that had entered American airspace on Jan. 28, that had then left and re-entered over North Idaho on Tuesday. But with such a high-profile trip at stake, keeping it on the down-low was key.

However, on Wednesday, February 1, a Billings, Montana, resident spotted the balloon around 5:30 p.m. local time, and the next day, a local Montana paper published a report about it. Later that day, late Thursday afternoon, the Pentagon finally confirmed the existence of the balloon.

 

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Pentagon Reveals Why It Waited Days To Shoot Down Chinese Surveillance Balloon​

Waiting to down the balloon “actually provided us a number of days to analyze this balloon, and through a number of means,” the defense official said. “We don’t know exactly all the benefits that will derive, but we have learned technical things about this balloon and its surveillance capabilities.”

The U.S. was able to “study” and “scrutinize” the balloon and its spying capabilities, which the official described as “broad.”

Additional information about Chinese surveillance methods could be gathered once U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels recover debris that splashed down in the water, officials said. While recovery efforts had already begun, the officials could not provide an exact timeline.

 

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Democrat Senator Announces Hearing To Demand Answers On Chinese Spy Balloon​

Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), chairman of the Senate’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that he would hold a hearing to get answers to questions about the balloon spotted over his home state Friday. The announcement follows similar outrage from multiple Republican senators from states over the balloon’s current flight path.

“Montanans value their freedom and privacy and I’ll always fight to defend both,” Tester said Friday. “China’s actions are a clear threat to those values and to America’s national security, and I’m demanding answers from the Biden Administration. I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again.”

Biden Tries To Take Victory Lap For Shooting Down Chinese Spy Balloon, Gets Slammed By Top Officials​

Biden claimed in remarks to reporters that he “ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible,” but that the decision was made to not shoot it down over land because debris could cause damage when falling to the ground.

U.S. officials were reportedly “well aware” that the balloon had crossed into American airspace on January 28 and that it was over Idaho on Tuesday, but decided not to inform the public to not upend Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s diplomatic trip to China.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the spy ballon was sent to the U.S. “in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States.”

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the Vice Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and a member of the Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Biden should have taken out the balloon much sooner “over remote areas of Alaska or Montana.”

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Greene (R-NC) said that it was “indefensible that this threat was eliminated only after great public outcry and the damage to U.S. national security and American sovereignty was already done.”

 

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[Kyle]

Bill Kristol has turned into a complete piece of crap.

 

[BOP]

Well, thank gawd the balloon wasn't an actual EP-3E, or something, right, Xi?

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm concerned that I no longer care about this crap. Espionage facilitated by and directly by the Biden family has become commonplace. There's nothing we can do about it, no way to stop it, so there's no point in worrying about it.

You'd think there would have been a much larger uproar that a freaking Chinese spy vehicle was over our country in plain sight for several days with no response from our military. What are those ****ing people for, anyway? Yet the overwhelming response from the American public has been to make memes and jokes.



The Democrats used it to make shitty comments about Donald Trump and his supporters.



So....color me apathetic.

 

[herb749]

I'm seeing people talking about that 3 flew over during Trump's time in office. So the democrats said nothing .?

 

[Hijinx]

I might be crazy, but to me when the President says as soon as possible that mean within 15 minutes not 4 days.

I will say this to Vrai. The biggest joke we have in this country is the Biden Administration and it is a bad joke.

 

[Ken King]

I'm seeing people talking about that 3 flew over during Trump's time in office. So the democrats said nothing .?

Talking about it? How about a time and place this supposedly happened. Esper says he wasn't aware of any such occurrences.

 

[gemma_rae]

Antifa should have at least shot fireworks at it. Is Georgie running out of money?

 

[herb749]

Talking about it? How about a time and place this supposedly happened. Esper says he wasn't aware of any such occurrences.

If they really did the democrats would have tried to impeach him over them.

 

[Ken King]

If they really did the democrats would have tried to impeach him over them.

Probably have one or two in the House that will still try it.

 

[AnthonyJames]

I have a question for anybody who feels like answering. Don't we have some kind of technology that would allow us to either hook, or net this balloon and drag it to the ground so we could inspect and analyze it?

Or did Biden want it blown up so we couldn't analyze it?

 

[Ken King]

I have a question for anybody who feels like answering. Don't we have some kind of technology that would allow us to either hook, or net this balloon and drag it to the ground so we could inspect and analyze it?

Or did Biden want it blown up so we couldn't analyze it?

Don't think so, it was up around 60,000 feet and who knows what the mass of the payload is. I wouldn't want to be on the catching end of that operation.

 

[AnthonyJames]

Don't think so, it was up around 60,000 feet and who knows what the mass of the payload is. I wouldn't want to be on the catching end of that operation.

I was thinking of keeping the balloon intact to support the payload until it could be more manageable when brought to a lower altitude, but would that be impossible because of the type and speed of aircraft required at 60,000 feet?

Or...
Have I been watching too many spy movies?

 

[Sneakers]

I was thinking of keeping the balloon intact to support the payload until it could be more manageable when brought to a lower altitude, but would that be impossible because of the type and speed of aircraft required at 60,000 feet?

Or...
Have I been watching too many spy movies?

Other than another balloon moving at about the same speed, I don't think we have anything that works at that altitude with a speed slow enough to catch it. Everything is designed for high speed thin atmosphere operations. The target, or the vehicle attempting the capture, would likely suffer catastrophic damage.

 

[Gilligan]

I was thinking of keeping the balloon intact to support the payload until it could be more manageable when brought to a lower altitude, but would that be impossible because of the type and speed of aircraft required at 60,000 feet?

Or...
Have I been watching too many spy movies?

We..nor anyone else..could even begin to attempt what you suggest. We barely have the missile capability that reached it.