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The total cost of this shoot down is ballooning by the day!
The total cost of this shoot down is ballooning by the day!
Chinese spy balloon that flew over US gathered intelligence from sensitive military sites, officials say
NEW: Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official.
far out! the aliens are back.BREAKING: The US military is currently tracking a balloon that has flown over Hawaii
BREAKING: The US military is currently tracking a balloon that has flown over Hawaii
The U.S. military is tracking another suspected Chinese spy balloon which flew over American airspace in Hawaii a few days ago and is now heading toward mainland U.S.
Ok, here’s a question....why is it still flying?
We receive a lot of stuff from each one we shoot down over here. The tech is too good to dump it.Ok, here’s a question....why is it still flying?
Very valid points.We receive a lot of stuff from each one we shoot down over here. The tech is too good to dump it.
Read the leaked files and you'll see why we let the first ones go so long.
Each one (if you were in the original discord or the other 2 going on). Has something different it's looking for and they all have different experimental tech on them.Very valid points.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Balloon Used American Tech to Spy on Americans
Preliminary U.S. findings show the craft collected photos and videos but didn’t appear to transmit them, officials say
WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese Balloon Used American Tech to Spy on Americans
I think the better question here, is why the EFF is Biden making excuses for the CCP? There was clearly an intent to gather “data” with that balloon. Biden insults the intelligence of every American with this malarkey.A quote from President Biden from the article:
“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said at a fundraiser in California. “It was blown off course up through Alaska and then down through the United States. And he didn’t know about it. When it got shot down, he was very embarrassed.”
Was Xi Jinping embarrassed that he did not know about it, or was he embarrassed that he got caught?
I think the better question here, is why the EFF is Biden making excuses for the CCP? There was clearly an intent to gather “data” with that balloon. Biden insults the intelligence of every American with this malarkey.
I think the better question here, is why the EFF is Biden making excuses for the CCP? There was clearly an intent to gather “data” with that balloon. Biden insults the intelligence of every American with this malarkey.
China is strong-arming Biden into not revealing what was actually on that balloon. That, and it’s a national security risk. There was likely something “else” on that balloon we weren’t supposed to find. Think high altitude delivery system. What for, TBD.It does seem apologetic. Perhaps the statement is meant to serve diplomatic objectives and an international (Chinese) audience.
Here's another quote that bothers me:
"Meanwhile, Chinese officials have expressed concern that should the U.S. investigators’ report on the balloon become public, Beijing will be forced into a strong reaction, potentially derailing high-level engagement."
- If it was just, as Bob Ross would say, "a happy accident", and simply an embarrassment because Xi didn't know it was there, what does Beijing have to hide? That they stole more US tech? The creative ways they used the tech against us? That the balloon was trying to probe or exploit a vulnerability in tech on the ground that they don't want us to find or remediate?
