This is so stunningly incredulous, and transparently politically orchestrated, it’s laughable.
The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) defended the actions of the Biden administration last Saturday by saying three Chinese spy balloons had previously been deployed during the Trump administration. However, President Trump and all national security heads including Mike Pompeo (CIA), Richard Grenell and John Ratcliffe (DNI) denied ever hearing about these balloons.
To reconcile the claim of historic Chinese spy balloon operations, against the denials and absence of briefings for the Trump IC officials, the current Intel Community (and Biden Administration) are now claiming they only discovered the prior balloon flights *AFTER* President Trump left office.
Oh, and due to national security issues, the IC cannot explain how they found out after the fact.
Yes Alice, that’s their story, and they’re sticking to it.
WASHINGTON DC – The Biden administration is willing to brief former Trump officials on newly discovered intelligence that China sent spy balloons into U.S. airspace during their time in charge.
The offer, described by senior Biden administration officials on Sunday night, comes as former President Donald Trump and senior members of his national security team say they were never briefed on such an incursion by a Beijing-sent aircraft.
“This information was discovered after the prior administration left. The intelligence community is prepared to offer key officials from the Trump administration briefings on [China’s] surveillance program,” one of the officials said. The official, along with several others, asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive information.
Briefers would also be willing to discuss Beijing’s similar operations in East Asia, South Asia and Europe over the last several years, the official said.
The proposal to brief the Trump officials is the latest development following the military’s shootdown of a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday, seven days after it entered U.S. airspace. Republicans and former Trump officials said this week that they would have downed the airship as soon as it appeared, and criticized President Joe Biden for waiting until the balloon was over water before bringing it down.
Yet on Saturday, a senior Defense Department official said that Chinese spy balloons entered American airspace three times during Trump’s tenure and once before during the current administration. The administration officials didn’t detail how they learned of those events long after they happened.
Still, it helps explain why five senior Trump administration officials POLITICO spoke with on Sunday said they were never told of such incidents occurring when they were in office. “This never happened. It would have never happened,” Trump told Fox News on Sunday. (read more)
Here’s a sad and ironic story about a very well-meaning but severely brainwashed moonbat of my acquaintance. He’s a good guy except that he blindly accepts authority in every form.
On the subject of the balloon and the delay, he asked me, “Well, didn’t they have to ask permission to shoot it down?”
I asked “Permission from whom?” I assumed he meant whoever actually pulled the trigger on the missile, but I thought at first he meant one level of our own gummint asking permission from another.
Then I was gobsmacked when he said, “Well, ask China? It was their balloon.”
I then spent some time attempting to explain national sovereignty and the right to defend our land and airspace. He seemed to get it on the surface, but ended by maintaining it would have been “polite” to ask them.
Finally, here’s the ironic part. He was unwittingly speaking the exact truth. The Xiden Regime and the Corruptocracy at the top of our once-vaunted military do indeed have to ask China’s permission for everything they do. China owns them down to the last cup of tapioca in the Rehoboth basement.
Silly, silly Steph … you mean you actually still “believe” in “national sovereignty”? Hahahaha … I’ll bet you also believe in archaic things like “borders” … “laws” … and “equal protection”. You’re obviously not a Progressive. Not helping to move America FORWARD with Hope and Change.
/sarc.
😉
True – I’m one of those crazy people who is hoping we can change back.
Why would the INtel Community sacrifice its own credibility for the Biden Lying Machine?
Why didn’t they just keep their mouths shut?
Are we to believe even the Intel people higher ups WANT Biden re-elected over some other Democrat possibility?
The cocktails parties are to die for – or so I hear….
What Credbility? I was gonna mention the gulf of tonkin….and then I thought
…. wait how many NAZI,s did they “rehabilitate” to continue therebdeath and destruction skills…..
How is it in Canada soy boy. Only a gender studies major believes the Gulf of Tonkin didn’t occur.
Don’t be so Soros.
I regret I can’t down vote you. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a false flag so Johnson had a rationale to escalate the stupid Vietnam War. It happened on my 13th birthday and I went to sleep thinking WWIII was about to start. Johnson should’ve been hanged as his treachery led to my brother being killed in that worthless and futile war.
It’s great for Dem politicians when the media covers for them, but imagine the giddiness of the Intel Community.
However, everyone knows that you can SEE a big balloon like that. And isn’t it true, the Chinese would always launch such things to fly over their targets during sunny weather, the better to see things? Thus, would we not have seen them.
Local news KDVR in Denver repeated this ridiculous made-up story this morning. Without mentioning anything about those former officials that dispute it.
And the Biden administration can’t even get their own story straight.
Our local news WHO (NBC) affiliate did the exact same, said 3 ChiCom balloons happened during Trump. Never a peep about Trump, Pompeo, Grenell, or NORAD denying this absurd claim- the entire mockingbird media is corrupted
Could UFO sightings over the past decade or so actually been Chinese tests of drones or balloons?
Right.
I say the same thing…? Hmmm
Like kindergarten kids with their hands in the cookie jar the blatant false reports the finger pointing and out right lies would be comical if it were from small children, but it’s not !
These people from the government, media and big tech firms are supposed to be accountable on an adult level with honor and integrity.
If God we’re to give the United States an enema Washington DC is where he would stick the hose
Please don’t use the word Intelligence to describe what this community does, as work related to Intelligence. Anyone, have any better words to describe them?
SpySwamp?
Their lies have become unbelievable by even the sheeple.
Sorry, intelligence community. I get my baloney from Oscar Meyer. They’re experts and you’re just amateurs.
Yes! But experts at what? One gross generalization merits another!
The criminality of our federal government is getting fully exposed, and it is HORRIFIC. The states should dissolve this federal government and start over.
outright POS liars. All of them.
An administration of morons treating the American people like idiots… the balloon was visable to the naked eye- you don’t think if three(!)o f these balloons had been floating above the US during Trump’s time in office MSNBC, CNN, PBS and the rabid Anti Trump NY Times (to name a few) wouldn’t have mentioned it???? Every person in Trump’s National Security group denied this story- when ANYTHING goes wrong in the Biden administration, they accuse Trump of either causing it or doing the same. It is getting old and tired. They might want to insted ask themselves Why would CHina wait til Trump was gone and slow, addled Joe was in charge BEFORE sending the ballon over the U.S.? We got the answer to that question, didin’t we? Joe was too slow to do anything about it- and CHina got all the intel they anted sent back to them befoe the balloon was shot down.
Just like the 51 IC officials who swore about the pee tapes, Russian disinformation, etc.
Our intelligence community has drunken deep of Hunter Biden’s stash.
spot on
When exactly will the Gang of Eight get their briefing? After the State of the Union? Treason is impeachable and there seems to be a whole lot of it happening daily.
The balloons the Biden clown is talking about were bought from Alibaba and released in a gender reveal.
The “story” changes as questions are asked and not answered. Reading between the lines, it appears that the latest version of this tale is that they were aware of the balloons but didn’t know they were Chinese.
Even rudimentary radar would see a 200-ft tall balloon with a payload bigger than an airliner, that’s visible with the naked eye! Our defenses did see them, but nobody traced them specifically to China. (Although no matter where they came from, they should have alerted President Trump or any of the aforementioned officials.)
This newly implied narrative “explains” how it is that the head of the Northern Command had to be informed by the “intelligence community” that, going back in time to the Trump administration, they can only just now “assess” that they were Chinese balloons (!!!!) that they’d noticed before but didn’t ID. It’s all CYA for Biden.
Sullivan and the complicit media continue to impute blame onto Trump, although any logical person would have to deduce that Trump couldn’t possibly address something he wasn’t told about. So, hearing that logical argument in Trump’s defense, Sullivan now comes up with this spin: The so-very-competent and in-charge Biden had to hurry up and improve our air defenses, especially concerning China, because, you know, Trump was just so lax about it.
All that matters to this administration is putting out disinformation that a certain percentage of the population will accept because of their own bias.
Today it’s reported that these Chinese balloons have been flying around for a decade. Do the math. That puts them back before the Trump administration. Why didn’t VP Biden and then-president Obama take care to ensure they were identified and kept out of our airspace?
Why did the “intelligence community” take their “attribution retrospective” back only to 2016? We know why.
Do they truly care about national security? Obviously not.
Do they only care about how any event affects their political power? Obviously yes, because they will lie, obfuscate, confuse, and deliberately propagate disinformation and misinformation to maintain their power.
Unfortunately, they can fool a lot of people a lot of the time.
One question: Are they going to brief President Trump about these Chinese balloon incursions? Why only select members of his administration? We can guess which ones and why.
This just in:
Forget J.W. Booth – it was Trump that killed Lincoln. (And he also shot Kennedy!). I can’t tell you how I know this as it is still classified – but PLEASE trust me on THIS!!!
/sarc.
There are several possibilities, a spy in the Chinese Balloon Corps, NSA breaking their codes and reading the telemetry, satellite imagery of the balloons themselves, etc.
But the frightening part is if the IC is the source, it means our Air Defense system didnt see them. We apparently did see the current one because it was in the part of the sky that we would expect North Korean, Chinese and Russian missiles to approach from. The alleged other were in the Southern ADIZ, Texas, Florida, etc. Perhaps more radars are needed in the South.
Even the Tooth Fairy knows that Biden and his IC are FOS Lairs. At this point I am willing to believe the TF over Joe Biden, his Admin and their Truth Ministry MSM. Lord, we need an intervention!
“Hey Boo Boo,….. is Ranger Rick Biden FOS?” “You know it, Yogi!”
What we have here, folks, is “Washington disinformation.”MSM and the Administration’s sorry attempts to deflect blame from LGB. Show me the social media/e-mail chain in the command communications system and I will consider the claim. Lacking that, horse hockey.
The story keeps changing because they cannot explain what the world saw without implicating themselves. Too late.
Saying some people knew about it and permitted it but didn’t inform higher ups? There are words we use for things like this:
They are playing a very dangerous game and I would recommend the death penalty for everyone known to comply with directives which omitted the president from knowing of such things.
Six! Undiclosed Chinese Spy Balloons Under President Trump, (2017 – 2021): DoD, And IC Are Imploding In Lies, Incompetence, And Treason!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/pentagons-latest-lie-not-detect-balloons-us-trump-years-intel-community-saw-not-notify-leaders/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/going-us-military-now-says-six-china-spy-balloons-spotted-trump-years-no-one-notified/
FJB/LGB
FDoD/FIC
(My correction: Undisclosed)
This is bull crap. They keep changing their story.
Put them under oath, get to the bottom of this, and fire some people. And if anyone aided China in spying on America (by withholding this info from authorities in intel and DOD, etc) they should be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.
I agree in your analyse that, “they [DoD/IC/ETC] should be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.”
Amid the fact that the treasonous Peter Strzok (FBI), Andrew McCabe (FBI), Lisa Page (FBI), and General Mark Milley (CJCS/DoD) haven´t been prosecuted for VIOLATING ANY LAW, and I don´t expect that anyone responsible for deceit & deception & politicizing of Chinese Spy Balloons, will be prosecuted, (as well as, IC preferred Peter Strzok (FBI), over John P. O´Neill (FBI).)
And finally; Also remember former President Obama´s woke purge of patriots of the US Armed Forces, that debilitated DoD, and US, (and likely continous 24/7/365, by President Biden, and General Milley, that further debilitate DoD, and US.)
https://rense.com/general96/listof.html
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
One of the worst things taking place is that our government and all of its agencies have zero credibility. Nothing they say or claim can be taken at face value. They are so accustomed to lying, it comes naturally to them and seems to be much easier for them than to tell the truth. They have destroyed our country when we lose faith in each other and our institutions.
Developing: Biden White House Has NOT Briefed Gang of 8 Over China Spy Balloon Scandal – THEY’RE SLOW-WALKING THE DETAILS
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/developing-biden-white-house-not-briefed-gang-8-china-spy-balloon-scandal-slow-walking-details/
Liar liar—
pants 👖 on fire🔥 —
hanging off the telephone 📞 (spy) wire.