Photo: Air Force Staff Sgt. Marcus M. Bullock
It took the United States military a week to bring down a balloon. Not because we didn't have the capability as some have suggested, but because we had leadership that has been crippled by inaction for quite some time.
Question 1: The spy balloon was spotted and became known to US Military on Saturday 28 January, but they did not inform the President of its existence until Tuesday 31 January. Why?
"If President Biden was not informed as he claims, then he has cause to dismiss the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Gordon Chang, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, told Fox News Digital. "This failure could have grave consequences for the United States."
Question 2: Once the President became aware of it;'s existence, why did he wait a further five days before he gave the order to bring it down?
On Thursday of last week, the Pentagon said it "acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information", but experts are saying that is simply not true.
Again, this from Fox News Digital: "Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer specializing in foreign aerospace, said there is a "high probability that the Chinese government exfiltrated sensitive US data" through its spy balloon.
"This brazen intelligence operation mounted by Beijing, targeting the US homeland, almost certainly enabled the Chinese military to glean critical insights into the Biden Administration’s policy and posture towards China, and President Biden’s ‘red lines,’ when it comes to foreign aerospace assets, breaching of US sovereign airspace. These insights are very useful for China in developing deterrence strategies for dissuading the United States from intervening in China’s future aggressive operations against Taiwan."
What do you think? Did China get the intelligence it wanted from the spy balloon?
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