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)
To bad Biden shot it down over the wrong ocean.
CALL THEIR BLUFF.
Exactly….evidence please.
This IS their evidence, it’s in black and white print form.
I will add however, this the only evidence in the history of impeachments, they truly did not use against him.
Amazing, is it not? They really did hate him that much after all. ; )
Evidence? Hahahahaha … give them enough time … and they “found” Obama’s birth certificate
Sure, sure they did. Why can’t they just stick to facts and not try to make everything about a prior administration look bad, whether it was or not and even whether it was true or not? Obama did it as well. How insecure ARE these people?
They can’t help themselves. Orange man bad is their SOP. It is the only thing they know to do.
I saw a report today that apparently General Mattis said he knew Chinese ballons crossed into US air space but he did not notify President Trump because he would have reacted strongly.
What’s that “T” word????
Mattis has since disputed that claim and said he has no knowledge of such during his two year tenure in the Trump administration.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/breaking-general-mattis-says-no-knowledge-ccp-balloon-flying-us-watch-secretary-defense-trump-video/
So what’s up with Republican Rep Mike Waltz of Florida claiming that he was told about the prior incursions and Mattis’ response during a briefing this past weekend? One of them is lying and we need to know “the rest of the story”! (The other possibility is that someone from DOD was lying to Rep Waltz when they told him that story, in which case, he needs to demand that person be brought up before Congress, IMMEDIATELY, and asked to clarify his statements, under oath!)
That was the problem. Waltz was told? By who? Sounds like another anonymous source!
But then Mattis could be lying! This story changes faster than changing Biden’s depends
Bahahaha!!
Then I suppose we will have to accept his word as a man who served Mr Trump loyally and never spoke counter to his CoC. Right?
Ooops…CiC…
“Tranny”?
😜
That’s the one!
He denies that.
Not true. Mattis has denied that, and I saw the video of him doing it.
And we believe his denial?
We believe Mattis only speaks Xi approved lies.
But sometimes he has to repent and regurgitate Biden lies.
VERY insecure. All that the bureaucrats are competent at is obfuscation, the more the better.
Toss as much chum as possible into the water.
Shout squirrel as loud as possible. Distractions are wonderful for the Deep State.
Never know, What will stick.
The military realizes that there were “Allegedly” three incursions during PDJT’s term. Two years into Brandon’s term? Cue the suspicious cat.
The intelligence budget appears to need trimming, Major trimming.
” IF THEIR LIPS MOVE – THEY ARE LYING ”
The Term – ” INTELLIGENCE ” BEFORE ANYTHING = The OPPOSITE imo
Isn’t the term Military Intelligence frequently used as the very definition of an oxymoron?
“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.”
So the smartest people on the planet “missed” previous chynese incursions into the United States and their first response is to blame the exiled President? Un-befreaking-believable….
That is a complete lie. They should be ashamed of themselves. If they didn’t know the Chinese are coming into our airspace they should resign immediately.
and btw….dont forget to pay your taxes this year, other countries are depending on it.
Its all staged BSht…
Pay them? I want a refund for the last 2 years, at least!
Let’s pretend that these lying liars are actually telling the truth that on 3 occasions Chinese Spy Balloons flew over the USA during the Trump presidency. That still does not mean that PDJT would have had the same milquetoast response that Biden did. Those balloons would have been removed from our airspace immediately.
If our woke military wants to admit that they have failed, once again, at keeping our nation safe and protected then that is on them. If PDJT knew about it then he would have ordered them to eliminate, remove, divert, or shoot down those balloons.
It means the apparatus is incompetent at spotting anything if true.
Or, they feel free to freely lie with the support of media and the all encompassing NatSec concerns. Which is pretty funny because they’re talking about all this openly.
Or, more likely, complicit in covering up foreign actors and assaults while targeting innocent citizens to spread fear and conformity to a deadly ideology of Democide.
Let’s see– this is how I think it would go. Balloon gets close to Alaska. We have so many early warning radars, and the balloon is 50,000 feet up. Our radars would have spotted it about 100 miles away. We would send jets to see what it is. We would contact China to see if they sent it, since it looks by reading the Winds Aloft Chart that is the only possible explanation. Jets would confirm it a balloon, with equipment to look down and possibly monitor American communications. So 4 hours before it hits the coast of Alaska we know it is a Chinese spy capable of spying. This info would immediately go to the top brass at the Air Force and Pentagon. It would get quick routing to the Joint Chiefs and to the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). Biden, with the help of his advisors (Obama et al), would say leave it alone and maybe no one will see it. It goes across Alaska, and every Air Force base and commercial airport with radar can see it. Everyone says keep it quiet– national security or some other lie. Maybe they tell everyone it is an American weather balloon– nothing to see here. But an honest American films it and the public uncovers the secret. We still do nothing. Biden is stuck between trying to say we can’t do anything– waiting on my military advisors. Finally we shoot it down, after we’ve allowed it to traverse the entire US. Lies and coverups begin: this happened 3 times under Trump but the military didn’t tell him, the balloon was trying to send data back to China but we stole their data and thwarted the attempt to send data to China. When you realize the gov’t is continually lying to you, at what point do you completely lose faith in their story?
There is no accountability for the lying that is going on.
With all the lying the swamp do, you would think they would have perfected the art by now. Can they do anything properly/
They can make any narrative up and know the enemedia will run 24/7 with cover. Plus add in the NGOs and public/private social media to feed the unwashed masses with thinking points and no need whatsoever to tell remotely believable lies required.
Nope! Inbreeding has never worked out well.
😂 So true!
It is a very sad day in America when the only thing you truly know about the members of the Federal Government is that they are liars.
Can we blame them for making this absurd argument? They could hardly say what most likely happened: “A decision was made within the agency not to notify the White House about [fill-in-the-blank]”?
The “unnamed sources” are as phony as Joe Bidens presidency is and we know it. We know they were trying to minimize the political fallout. I believe nothing our government/media complex tells me.
I doubt most of the time if there are even sources.
Usually the “Unnamed sources”/”official speaking on anonimity”/etc. are actually the so – called journalists that are creating these narratives.
Follow this story from the beginning over the past few days and you’ll notice how this illegitimate regime with Dopey Joe in charge had no intention of doing anything about this thing until engaged and informed Americans drew their attention to it and President Trump told them to shoot it down.
John Rattcliffe had the right answer.
Why didn’t all of America see these other three balloons by just looking up, like this one?
Why didn’t the Democrats eviscerate Trump and his Admin for allowing it to happen?
Why did the MSM that universally hated Trump and wanted to bring him down shout it from the rooftops?
BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THERE!!
THERE WERE NO PRIOR THREE BALOONS.
CHINA KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY TRIED SOMETHING THAT STUPID.
And the response would have not been nukes.
Ir would have been 1000% Tariffs on anything they wanted to send here, and probably an outright sealing of our borders to any China Products, and the Mexican Border too, to make sure.
No more helium for you, China.
No brave rank and file then? The IC is a rogue agency at this point. People need to go to prison.
That includes all of these generals. They are traitors and should be in jail right now.
I believe the first release stated, “President-elect Donald Trump” and, if there was such happenings, that was not only on obama’s term but what ‘they’ were involved in to stop President Trump from being president wouldn’t fit their plan. Snakes are always snakes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/treason-rep-waltz-says-dod-told-china-spy-balloons-crossed-us-trump-years-gen-mattis-not-tell-trump-thought/
FTA “Rep. Waltz said that General Mattis was Secretary of Defense at the time and decided not to inform President Trump because the Pentagon thought Trump was “too provocative and aggressive.”
If true Mattis should be called back to service and court martialed for dereliction of duty and treason! But we all know nothing will happen.
Apparently all of them until proven otherwise!
Waltz has some splaining to do.
Seems to me that General Mattis is the one with some explaining to do … more than just denying something that if true would mean that he committed Treason. Remember Mattis was part of the January 6th coup in that he strongly and publicly denounced Trump for something he didn’t do. This is the LIE he promoted on January 6th …
“Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump.” “His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice.” “Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country.”
If he’s not a UNIPARTY member (note that Obama didn’t purge him but promoted him), then he’s disgruntled because Trump didn’t take his advice about who to run the JCS. When he resigned over Trump RIGHTLY withdrawing from Syria, he criticized Trump. Sorry, but think there’s more to this story than his denial.
Perhaps Waltz should be censored for telling outright lies.
I would prefer he was kicked out of government.
Why are you assuming he’s the one telling the lies? Read my post above.
Some of what Waltz said was speculation.
Here is the quote from Waltz:
” And there is some speculation, I talked to Trump administration officials over the weekend, that the Pentagon deliberately did it because they thought Trump would be too provocative and too aggressive. So that’s what we need to get to the bottom of and one person that I’m waiting to hear from that we haven’t heard from that list is former Secretary of Defense, General Mattis who was the secretary during this time period. What did he know and what did he decide to pass on and brief to the president.”
My BULL is loosing this contest, and he has diarrhea!
“The intelligence community is prepared to offer key officials from the Trump administration briefings on [China’s] surveillance program,” one of the officials said.” OKAY. Let’s hear from them.
Wait….”The official, along with several others, asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive information.” OKAY. They’ll offer briefings on chy na’s surveillance program, but none will identify themselves.
Because they’re cowardly cowards who lie
Yeah, they will show up at the “briefings” dressed to the hilt in their doggy masks…
So, if I understand this correctly, they let this happen multiple times without telling the prior President until he left office, so now they shoot it down after it leaves our land mass.
Makes perfect sense. If your a fool.
And they kept CIA and DNI amongst others out of the loop too.
But if you believe their latest lies, they kept themselves out of the loop too. They only realized it after Biden was Installed, years after it happened.
Though I still wonder what their definition of American airspace is. For this balloon, they exclude Alaska and the Aleutians. For the Trump years are they including Guam or other US territories?
Soooo, Biden couldn’t shoot down the balloon over the Bering Sea because the debris might hurt a fish?
Ditto for the Pacific Ocean. To paraphrase, the BS piles up so fast in DC, you need wings to stay above it.
well, unfortunately, there are too many fools
These BS ‘ing aholes can’t get their stotries straight.
The “intelligence” community and the military keeps many secrets and the truth under wraps until the weapon is needed
It either happened or a bunch of people participated in a treasonous coup and massive cover up.
Since there are numerous people on the record disputing the claim against an anonymous source that said it happened, I’m going with it never happened.
Willing to let them generate “evidence” then hang them as the traitors they are!
The half-life of these lies is decreasing exponentially.
As is any semblance of credibility.
Don’t Look Up!
What kind of sensor systems could possibly pick up such a phenomena that it can credibly be proven to have happened, reliably recorded in some fashion, but not noticed until it was politically expedient to do so?
Our fertilizer problems are over, this merde is deep.
Would this be the same the same Intell Community that said Saddam has stockpiles of WMD such as the world had never before seen and that the Hunter Biden laptop was fabricated by the Russians?
Why yes it was. You win the prize today…
It’s probably those same gaslighting 57 (or was it 51?) “intelligence experts” yet again…
From a local? Hawaiian paper, in Feb 2022:
“Fighters were scrambled by Pacific Air Forces on Monday, February 14, in order to intercept an unmanned balloon floating off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) has confirmed the incident but has not released additional details given that the incident is still being investigated.
The Adjudant General of Hawaii, the state’s top-ranking military officer, posted a statement to Twitter saying that “Indo-Pacific Command detected a high-altitude object floating in air in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. In accordance with homeland defense procedures, Pacific Air Forces launched tactical aircraft to intercept and identify the object, visually confirming an unmanned balloon without observable identification markings.” It has not been officially confirmed what type of aircraft or how many were launched, but the only fighters based in Hawaii proper are F-22s. Those jets have the quick-reaction alert mission and are typically scrambled in response to aircraft in distress, unidentified aircraft and even vessels, hijackings, and potential adversary movements in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. Local residents and officials have also stated that F-22 were the aircraft that went to check out the balloon.”
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44352/f-22s-scrambled-to-investigate-suspicious-high-altitude-balloon-off-the-coast-of-hawaii
The military were aware of this type of balloon…then…in 2022!!!!
This information just never crossed the Pacific, to the MSM…or the general public either.
The Intelligence Community hid the incursion of Chinese balloons from the Trump Administration on three separate occasions. Why? What gives the IC the decision making authority to withhold vital information from the Executive Branch?
They also hid it from Trump appointees leading the IC!
A predictable story since someone apparently couldn’t resist throwing that out there to taunt and blame Trump. National security is the best blanket ever invented. Now we know the DOD is as corrupt as the outfit soon to build their new headquarters on three times the footprint of the Pentagon. I guess we’ll know who rules then eh? One suspects planners in the Pentagon are hard at work with their own dream house.
No doubt. Guess who was really behind all the Covid crap & the “countermeasures” (vacz)?😒
“A matter of national security” is almost as good as “an ongoing investigation”.
Chinagate is the new Russiagate.
It’s unreal just how desperate they have become.
Breaking News!
The Intel Community and the Pentagon decide to confess to sloppiness rather than treason.
I’m sure the Inspector General will make sure to say, “Mistakes were made,” as he walks away from the podium shrugging his shoulders.
Let’s see…
If there were no xi-spy balloons overhead during the last legitimate Administration, then they’re lying in attempt to save face.
If there were one or more xi-spy balloons in our air space at any time during the last legitimate Administration, then: TREASON.
I’m pretty certain it’s the latter, more than the former, that they’re desperate to wipe out of the convo stream.
Yes, and now it is reported late today that Milley has even denied that he was made aware of it while he was Secretary of Defense.
Significance: either the persons from the Pentagon are outright lying, in addition to the Administration, OR, someone or group below Milley at that time in the intel community withheld the info.
My guess – LYING NOW!
Given the options of confessing to treason and denial, Milley choose the latter.
I am incredulous.
This is stunningly incredible
The nauseous deep state buffoons leave us treepers nauseated!
I wonder if we will see any Pinocchio memes coming from the SOTU speech tomorrow?
I wonder what the over and under of lies will be?
Popping clown memes inbound.
Put me down for $20 on the first paragraph vomiting out of Braindead will be a lie…all of it. And the RINOS and Demons will clap like seals. These are not serious people. I’d love to see McCarthy rip up the speech; apparently that’s appropriate decorum now.
If you dare to watch, here’s a Bingo card:
“Will we see any Pinocchio memes?”
Yes, But Biden believes anything he is told.
The nakedly partisan LIES are not surprising…but I am actually slightly shocked, in a pleasant way, that a few stalwart members of the Media Industrial Complex are actually pushing back, ever so slightly, and asking a few questions! I think once former (current?) spook Pompeo spoke up in agreement with Grennell, Ratcliffe, and the others and said it did NOT happen, the MSM realized even they couldn’t keep repeating the story without ANY pushback!
They are right. There’s a Trump Balloon:
That needs to be printed on a t-shirt.
I was thinking that for the State of the Union, the Republicans could release a lot of red helium balloons with Joe Biden’s face and a Chinese flag on them. I mean, if Nancy can rip up a speech live, then…..
Let’s all contribute to a “Launch a FJB and the DC Establishment Liars” balloon over America..
Yes!
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.
OK-if we assume this is true (I don’t believe it)
fjb admin is fubar……..
Lying is what they do best. Why abandon their strong suit?
When their only tool is lying, everyone looks like a sucker.
Huh. And no, zero, zilch, nada reports from ANY commercial aircraft, ANY military aircraft whatsoever, ANY flight tracking operations, ANY official at NORAD. I’d say they’re LYING!
Amazing how they’ve taken Biden sleeping with the CCP and allowing a huge threat to our National security and now made this about Trump. I’m seriously thinking of investing in a rope manufacturing company. Wow!
I dont belive anything those lying traitors say. They should all be charged with treason.
That’s what I say. Where are these people not in jail for treason? I mean all the generals? They are still in their positions and they blocked president Trump from being the real president of the United States of America and decided they were smarter. I am so disgusted by these people.
This is getting ridiculous
Poof! I mean, proof?
🤣 🤣
My guess is that there are 3 less UFO sighting reports in the file tonight. UFO… Chinese spy balloon… who cares as long as you can bash PDJT with it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for an investigation to find out if these incidents ever happened and if they did, why wasn’t the administration informed? Is this another General Milley-Vanilli example of his working for China?
President Trump in White House never had happen,
Liars and Hypocrites.
Nothing to add
Get them in front of Congress B4 they align their LIES. Court Marshall the Incompetent Boob who kept this quiet.
Miss/She /Him General Marsha Millie needs to be Fired. Big fat Out of Shape Moron.
Congress never does anything, except make appearances on political opinion programs. I don’t believe that anything will change at all; not unless a miracle happens, and the criminals are all rooted out, however many tens of thousands that number is; and the whole thing reformed to its originally intended structure and function. But since that is realistically never going to happen,then maybe other preparations ought to be made; for example, by prayer and fasting and seeking the God of our lives.