The Chinese reconnaissance dirigible that transited the continental United States this winter did, in fact, capture significant intelligence from sensitive military installations, including one of our three nuclear missile silo fields.
Despite the Biden administration's efforts to prevent it from doing so and attempts to minimize Beijing's victory.
Instead of shooting the 200-foot-tall balloon down over the Aleutian Islands or Canada, the White House decided the risk of falling debris over sparsely populated areas outweighed the threat posed by its ability to vacuum up electronic signals intelligence (info on communications, radar and weapon systems) inaccessible to satellites.
U.S. officials maintain that any information gathered by the surveillance balloon was of “limited intelligence value.” However, a new report first published by NBC News suggests otherwise, as Fox News explains:
The assurances come following a report from NBC News this morning stating that the balloon was able to gather intel from numerous sensitive American military sites despite efforts from the Biden administration to prevent it from doing so.
The report was based on information from two current senior U.S. officials and a former senior Biden administration official, who claimed China was able to control the balloon to allow it to pass over the sites multiple times while transmitting information back to Beijing in real time.
One of the sites was Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of three U.S. bases that maintain and operates Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.
NBC News, citing the three officials, reported that the intel China gathered was taken mostly from electronic signals coming from the sites, instead of images.
It also reported that the balloon could have gathered much more had the Biden administration not acted to move around possible targets and obscure the balloon's ability to capture electronic signals from the locations.
Yet, the balloon prevailed, transmitting valuable intelligence to the Chinese government.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor eventually shot down the balloon off the South Carolina coast.
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Anyone that believes a word that idiot lying bastard says,has to be a bigger idiot that he is!
Tim, u couldn’t of said it better.Were dealing with some total incompetence,and failure,here.
biden is getting millions from the ccp. That is factual. His fealty to them is also for all the dirt they have on the addlepate. Balloon antics, as with Afghanistan surrender, were playbooked by biden’s overlords, the ccp!
Biden is a pathological liar. He has a heart of stone. People, look at what he has done to our beautiful country!! Riddled with dementia, I believe he is a tremendous risk running our country. And he’s in bed with China!!!
All he does is lie and only the really stupid buy what he’s saying.