Here we are, left with yet another news cycle that provides us only a drip of revelations similar to the docudramas plaguing the current and past administrations. However, this time the tidbits of valuable information are coming from our Department of Defense regarding alleged past Chinese spy balloon incursions.
Unfortunately, the information we have been getting merely raises more questions than provides any answers. In some ways, it appears that delaying the takedown of the spy balloon was a sound decision, allowing our government to glean valuable intelligence on our near-peer adversary.
But can we believe what our DOD is telling us? And if what they say is true, can we trust that they are competent enough to extract all the possible intelligence they can and do anything of value with it?
Remember when the Biden regime and their media propagandists lied all weekend about the 3 Chinese spy balloons over the USA during the Trump presidency.
– that's why when these traitors talk about Russia and China propaganda, I can' t stop laughing.
They're just as bad.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 7, 2023
Talk About Biffing it
The latest incursion of our airspace by a floating Chinese eye in the sky does not seem to be the first time this has happened. We are just now learning that it happened three times during the Trump administration. The Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), General Glen VanHerck, owned up to his past failures.
“I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out,” Gen. VanHerck admitted.
That’s an understatement; what is Gen. VanHerck’s job?
According to the General, “As the NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America.”
What a bang-up job you’re doing! Not much accountability at NORAD, it would appear. Perhaps they are spending too much time on their yearly mission to track Santa as he delivers gifts to all the boys and girls. So how were the previous balloons discovered?
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“The intel community, after the fact, made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America,” said Gen. VanHerck.
Ah, yes, the same intelligence community so well known for being transparent and honest.
The US commander responsible for the North American region just admitted that although we spent $13.34 trillion on the military from 2000 through 2019, we struggle with detecting when giant balloons enter US airspace pic.twitter.com/FrW9qZYjx6
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) February 6, 2023
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Fake News?
Someday I hope to be an ‘unnamed’ source since I feel a bit left out given that there seem to be so many running around the beltway. An unnamed U.S. official claimed that once we realized the unidentified previous sightings were Chinese spy balloons, they chose to keep it a secret to keep China from knowing how we figured it out.
How clever, how is that working for us now? I would argue we look pretty unprepared and ridiculous.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, “I can’t speak to the information flow in the previous administration. I can tell you that we have reached out to key officials from the previous administration and offered them briefings on the forensics that we did. And we expressed our willingness to walk them through what we learned.”
How generous of you; how about walking the American people through it? The former President isn’t buying this narrative, and I don’t think we should be either.
Popping onto Truth Social, former President Trump posted “Now they are putting out that a balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the ‘heat’ off the slow moving Biden fools.”
He further claimed that all of these rumors of three other balloons are ‘disinformation.’ So is the Biden administration fabricating this entire bogus balloon brouhaha?
What they did over the weekend was the opposite of good faith: deceptively leaking classified information on background to point the finger at the last administration to excuse their own failures. Caught, they now ‘fess up and plead honest mistake. Give me a break. pic.twitter.com/0JZ5hLcxSD
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 7, 2023
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Five-Sided Drama
Yesterday, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, appeared on Fox News and dropped some serious truth bombs. First, Mr. Gingrich highlighted that the timeline of this recent balloon blunder seems a bit off.
“When the military learned about it, apparently there’s a three or four-day period where they don’t tell the president,” said Gingrich.
That seems odd; you’d think that would be something you’d tell the president unless the president has the mental acuity of a five-year-old. Then you might not want to upset him over a balloon.
There have been some whispers that when Uncle Joe was finally notified of the spy balloon, he had told the military to shoot it down but was dismissed, causing Mr. Gingrich to give him the moniker last night of ‘Suggester in Chief’ versus Commander in Chief.
“This is just one more example of a bloated Pentagon bureaucracy that’s more worried about being dealing with social issues than it is about defending the United States,” he said.
Now he’s speaking my language. Gingrich goes on to go through the Pentagon’s recent highlight reel, stating “From Afghanistan on, we have seen failure after failure, and the Pentagon needs a deep, thorough shake up.”
Do I dare say Newt insinuates that our beloved Department of Defense might have some deep rot within it?
If it’s true the Pentagon purposely did NOT tell President Trump of Chinese Spy Balloons during his administration then we had a serious breach in command during the Trump admin.
The POTUS is the Commander in Chief.
We must investigate and hold accountable those who broke rank.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) February 6, 2023
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Questions That will Remain Unanswered
Let’s take a spell to lay out some of these paradoxes with this balloon buffoonery:
- President Biden wasn’t notified right away
- the DOD alleges they ‘missed’ 3 prior balloons
- no one in the Trump administration was informed of previously missed balloons
- China launched this massive balloon that would obviously be seen with the naked eye
- China can spy on us in a much more covert manner
So let’s dissect this idea that, as Mr. Trump alleges and some of his former appointees, the previous three balloons narrative is disinformation or, simply, a lie. That would entail that not only is the Biden administration in on this supposed lie but the military and intelligence community.
Now if that’s not enough to make you feel like you live in a simulated democracy, let’s dissect the idea that the three balloons did happen. I think that the below questions are essential and not all-inclusive:
- Why are we just now learning about this failure?
- Why didn’t the Trump administration know of the failure?
- Why did we fail to detect the spy balloons?
- What has been done to mitigate this massive failure?
Will we ever get these answers? Doubtful.
My final thought for you – at best, our government is lying about a near peer’s espionage efforts. At worst, our government is incompetent and hiding it from the American people and the individuals we elected into office. So chew on that for a bit and attempt to sleep well tonight.
Who is in charge? I can tell you it’s pretty clear it’s not the President, either past or present, but those military and defense bureaucrats who think they know better and prefer to advance their own agendas than serving and protecting.
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As I have stated from the beginning, the balloons are as China claims, errant weather tracking devices. China has far better methods of espionage, think satellites and Fang Fangs. Biden’s ilk are up to something and using this as cover.
Biden allows a Communist Chinese Spy balloon to travel from Alaska to the Atlantic, gathering and transmitting intel to China. When questioned, suddenly it is all about Trump. My gosh, the buffoonery of a Democrat President is astonishing.
China sends an intelligence gathering balloon over Alaska, Canada and the whole of the USA, and it did not find any signs of intelligence anywhere.
However it did gather data on wind direction and speed.
It discovered that the wind blows from west to east. Deciding that this mind-blowing information in the hands of the Chinese was a threat to national security, the US shot the balloon down in international waters.
If there really were any spy balloons during President Trump’s time, a gawd almighty ruckus would have been kicked up about it.
Because it’s Jo Biden all sorts of excuses are being made.
at the time of this writing another event has happened . over Lake Huron. US shot down another one .
we basically know it’s not aliens , unless you classify China as aliens . after proper itemization we shall send China a bill for all expense , with a due date , and severe penalities should they fail to meet our deadline. Oh , and yes we will cut off all trade to China foreign or domestic
Let me tell you what I think! We gave the Chinese Government digital maps thru Google Maps. All military installations are BLURRED out on google maps with coordinates.
They don’t need to send spy balloons to find them!
While all eyes are on the US Northern border… “unknowns”… a balloon and 2 shiny things… There have been 13 million “unknowns” cross our Southern border and remain in the country! Jus Sayin…
What has to happen before the left will realize they have a moron in chief with the likes of George Soros actually running this country? Are you willing to wait until the nuclear bombs from China or Russia actually hit our soil?
Impeach this moron and all of his cronies and disband the top of the FBI and CIA…
The senior military commander in charge during the Trump Administration should be fired for not alerting the president of those incursions by Chinese spy balloons. He should be let go with no pension benefits for putting our nation in harm’s way.
Who is guarding our borders? The military is inept! The senior officer in charge should be forced to resign with no pension benefits.
So the next time, China will equip them with EMT payloads while while sleepy Joe smiles and that will be the end of discussion!
Is anyone following up on this? Has Gen.VanHerck been relieved of his duties and someone competent put in place? And what about Gen. Milley – if he was not made aware of those incursions, and did not advise the Commander-in-Chief of them, then he must be relieved of duty as well. Do we have a military or is Mickey Mouse watching over us?
The spy “balloon” had already relayed to China all the info China wanted before our cowardly government shot it down.
Biden waited until the balloon was over the Atlantic because that’s what China told him to do. Otherwise China would have leaked Hunter’s business dealings with China. And that would have implicated Slow Joe
Also Dumbo n Dumbo Jr wouldn’t have got their February paycheck from Xi,, they didn’t want that now CCP would have spilled the whole traitorous acts they are doing,,
FJB,, FJB,, FHB
Never have the American voters been cursed with a more feckless government (excepting that of the mid-nineteenth century and the great Native American holocaust). Today’s U.S. government is untrustworthy and dangerously owned by the Elite and their Corporate America minions.
My only question is: Why is Milley still Head of the Joint Chiefs and Austin still Sec. Def? They are both total disgraces to this nation!
Deep State Spying On Local Montana Miitias.
If you thought there was truth and honesty in the military, that they might have trump’s back and would be a presence straightening out 2020 – think (at least try to) hard about what is going on and about what is going to happen.
We are f’cked, ROYALLY F’CKED.
there will be no ‘save’ coming, it will be up to the people at large and those citizens within the military who have also been fooled.
…The General lies. Just like 911 was an “intelligence gap”…and WMD was an “intelligence failure”. All lies to keep the rotting US Government in power. I hope they are all convicted for treason and dangled from a rope.