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)
So let me see if I got this straight. They expect me to believe
that 3 ballons were floating around the country during Trump
presidency but no one knew about it.. No one on the ground
saw anything, it wasn;t detected?
The how did they detect this NOW? and exactly how long are we suppose
to believe they have known like just a couple days ago? Cuz no way would
the hair on fire gang have known this and not leaked it .
NO WAY. and if someone in the media knew they certainly
would have leaked it.
and people who hate Trump and would love nothing more than
to make him look bad, Mattis, Bolton, Esper all says Fake News.
They would have no reason to cover for Trump.
And the people who raided his home now plan to “brief” him on top secret information regarding Chinese spying activities? While these smart guys are at it, perhaps they could pinpoint where in the cosmos “fast radio bursts” are coming from.
“In my mind, theories are more easily demolished than rebuilt.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788
Absolutely true. They hated President Trump and would only be too happy to make him look bad.
Sure, once they are briefed in, they have to stop disclaiming prior incidents.
Bingo. The deep state games never end.
But deny, they sure will.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/pentagon-wont-explain-misleading-statements-about-trump-era-chinese-spy-balloons/
FTA”The Department of Defense won’t identify the Pentagon official who this weekend told reporters that the Trump administration let three Chinese spy balloons fly over the country without noting the critical fact that these incidents went undetected by the military.
The “senior defense official” told journalists in a background conference call Saturday that Chinese government surveillance balloons “transited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration.” Democrats seized on the Pentagon’s disclosure to defend President Joe Biden amid outcry that China’s balloon was allowed to travel unimpeded for several days across the continental United States, only to see the claim fizzle less than 24 hours later when other anonymous officials said the balloons were discovered only after former president Donald Trump left office.”
If they were undetected during President Trump’s term how can they be detected years later doesn’t make sense? So Mattis must of known and chose not to notify President Trump? Something’s not right? My guess is the military is so “woke” that they kept President Trump out of the loop on a lot more than just ChiCom balloons!
“My guess is the military is so “woke” that they kept President Trump out of the loop on a lot more than just ChiCom balloons!”
Remember … General Milley contacted Communist China behind Trump’s back and promised them that we wouldn’t attack them. And then he told his staff to ignore PRESIDENT Trump. He definitely should be courtmartialed. And if Rep Mike Waltz is right about Mattis, he should be charged with Treason.
BINGO!
It wasn’t a DOD official it was a State pogoes assigned to the Pentagon.
They fed JFK bunk intelligence on Cuba with the bay of pigs. That’s why he removed the top 3 at the CIA. They were angry when he wouldn’t commit ships, planes, and personnel, so they began a defamation campaign against him with mockingbird media. TLDR
Stop me if you’ve heard these before…
“They told me it would take 3 years, Raisin said 3 weeks.”
“They told me it would last forever, then two years, now it’s two months.”
“Our biggest danger is from within.” – Donald J. Trump April 9, 2022
“Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions – those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.”
— Douglas MacArthur, Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952
“The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”
–- Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807
Inflated Balloons Popped Again
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109820714748815474
I’ll tell you how it’s possible, but I think it’s total BS.
In the 80s we EEs used to joke balloons and zeppelins would be a way to infiltrate airspace because modern radar systems will either miss it or filter it out as a natural phenomenon before they were visibly spotted.
So, in theory, after having a known event like this one, they have a radar signature they can then use to search previous tracks for something similar and find other occurrences that were dismissed at the time and never spotted visually.
But again, I believe it’s a BS cover story that blew up in their faces. If they use my explanation now, you know they are searching for plausible stories to use.
Exactly great point! I agree! Either they missed them and found out about them now which means they were incompetent back then or they knew about them and didn’t inform President Trump!! So which is it???
Why can’t we have both?
Sounds to me like the Feds got into Hunter’s stash of crack when they searched the Biden houses.
Sounds like they got into Hunter’s crack.
-fixed it.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👏👏👏😂🤣
I’m waiting or the next email or handbill to surface:
“Big party at Hunter’s tonite. Hosted with Confucius Institute cuties, er, cadres”
This from the people who failed todscover nuclear weapons in NKorea, South Africa, India, China, and Israel.
Yeah I believe them.
Did these intelligence officials sample Hunter’s stash when they made this announcement?
Let’s review:
“Intel community” – always honest and transparent
“Biden administration” – most transparent in history
Yep. Totally believable.
In their knee jerk hatred and envy of President Trump they stepped into a big steaming pile. You know how they love to tell us “the adults are in charge”? Why oh why did none of the super duper smart “adults” stop this farce? Just imagine not one, not a single person in this entire junta gave pause when the plan was hatched to blame President Trump. No one said “uh guys, this is going to make us look really, really bad…and juvenile”. Not a one.
So now they have the choice of being liars or traitors. You can’t make this shyte up. You just can’t
The power of “and”!! Yes, they are liars, traitors and stupid!
Biden administration — he won 81 million votes! Yeah. Totally believable! We could go on and on!!
The intel community discovered no prior Chinese spy balloon operations. The ic fabrications are an
embarrassment. And as the old saying goes, of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.
This needs a Dr. Seuss rendition…
Sorry but I’m not buying what the Biden Admin is selling.
I am not saying it isn’t true.
I’m also not saying it is true.
What I am saying is that I absolutely don’t trust the Biden Admin and I don’t trust the Alphabet agencies, the State Department or pretty much anything that comes out of the federal government.
They have proven over and over again that they cannot be trusted.
Stir into the pot a media conglomerate who relish lying to the American people because they too are anti-Americans, and that’s the stew we currently find ourselves in!
Is US Intel admitting incompetence????
Better to look incompetent than a conspirator I suppose.
UNLESS Your RUSSIAN and It’s the Second World War… BOTH WILL Get You Tokarev TT pistol ” INSPECTION ” up Close from Behind
Neither gives me warm fuzzies…
I suspect there’s more than one case of Treason in this CCP balloon business.
However I think Milley has sold out more than Benedicit Arnold ever did did.
Because there is a far more important agenda, that takes priority: to take down the mighty and the holy people, in order to usher in the fourth and final kingdom before the Lord returns.
Perhaps the Chinese feared what Trump would do if they sent a water (sorry, weather) balloon over the U.S.
Discovered (?)
AFTER ???????
—————-
National Security?
– Huh???
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The IC is so full of BS that NOTHING they say is believable. They have lost all their credibility and it will never return. They are all liars on the scale of Adam Schitt(for brains).
FJB
FKH
FCS
FNP
FMMcC
Not sure who FCS and FNP are, but I’m with you on the others.
Oh, just figured it out Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi…sorry, need more coffee!! 🙂
People that worked for President Trump have come out and said there is no truth to what the Biden admins are saying
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/military-intelligence-report-china-balloon-trump/index.html
“CNN — A US military intelligence report from last year that focused on China’s use of high-altitude balloons mentioned sightings in Hawaii and Florida during the Trump presidency, according to an excerpt of the report reviewed by CNN.
The April 2022 report, titled “People’s Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon,” found a Chinese spy balloon “circumnavigated the globe” in 2019 – while Donald Trump was president – at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and “drifted past Hawaii and across Florida before continuing its journey,” the US Air Force document states.
The Air Force intelligence report is the first indication that the US military was aware of Chinese spy balloons well before the latest incident.
However, it is not clear from the documents when US officials first became aware of the Chinese flights or what they assessed regarding their purpose.”
So it may be true that there were Chinese balloons over US territory during the Trump years. But the document doesn’t say whether the military was aware of it, leaving the possibility that they did and didn’t tell the Trump administration civilians.
Then there is this …
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/06/general-says-norad-missed-previous-chinese-spy-balloon-incursions-during-the-trump-administration/
“Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORTHCOM), admitted Monday that the joint U.S.-Canada organization missed previous incursions of Chinese spy balloons, including during the Trump administration.”
If true, can we say DOD incompetence? Are we seriously to believe that US radars couldn’t track an object 200 feet in diameter … the size of 3 school buses … with 2000 lbs (it says 1000 lbs in the article but other sources … https://nypost.com/2023/02/06/chinese-spy-balloon-was-200ft-tall/ , for instance … say in excess of 2000 lbs) of sensors, antenna and solar panels below it? What sort of Mickey Mouse operation is the DOD running these days?
The kind that can’t figure out if they are girls or boys…
BREAKING: General Mattis Denies Reports – Says He HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF CCP BALLOON Flying Over US During His Time as Secretary of Defense under Trump – ANOTHER LIE EXPOSED!
Redacted host makes a good point, if there were balloons during PDJT term and the head of the DOD didn’t tell President Trump about them
(a) that’s treason and
(b) why are we learning about these balloons now, and seeing the one that was just shot down – is because the neocons in both parties want us to be frightened, to feel vulnerable so we demand military build-up around Taiwan.
Sounds like Ukraine mess may be winding down so the military industrial complex wants to swing our attention to China.
It’s possible.
There is no sense in demanding military buildup.
But there is a mountain of sense in reviving the PDJT tariffs against ComChina and increasing them to yuuuge levels.
PDJT’s economic warfare is the only strategy that ever clearly worked.
Former defense secretary: yes, Trump would have shot down the Chinese spy balloon
Excerpt:
Miller asserted that the idea that the intelligence community didn’t know about the balloons until recently “sounds pretty crazy.”
“I’ve been studying all this all day long, and I’m just getting more confused as it goes,” Miller said. “So there was this narrative that the Trump administration knew all about this, only to find out, well, no, it happened during the Trump administration, but the intelligence community didn’t find out… until we left office. So I can’t figure out what’s going on. It sounds pretty crazy to me.”
Miller questioned how the balloons could have gone undetected …
https://thespectator.com/topic/defense-secretary-christopher-miller-trump-chinese-spy-balloon/
Right….and Schiff, Swallwell, Pelosi and Schumer also “forgot to mention it” too????
Uh huh……..suuuuuuuure…..
But the point wasn’t whether the military was incompetent enough to allow the balloon incursion. It was how Biden reacted versus how trump would have.
*Shhh* – we aren’t supposed to notice the obvious…
How long are we going to put up with a government which lies to us continuously?
👆 👆 👆 This!
Welcome to our club. It’s a big club and anyone can join!
Chinese spy balloon is a Sputnik moment for America
By Rep. Michael Waltz
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinese-spy-balloon-is-sputnik-moment-america
Which begs the question, now having discovered this presumably before this week, why were they so ill prepared to deal with a new incursion?
When every lie just digs the hole deeper…
This present one was seen in the air and videoed by people on the ground.
How come the previously claimed ones were not. They must have passed over millions of people, amateur astronomers, satellite watchers, ufo watchers etc., etc.
b s.
Can’t even use caps to write it.
They need to change the title of our intel to OLH as in, “Oh Lookie Here…”
And now Mattis denied it ever happened “on his watch”.
What a circus.
Will our government ever stop lying to us?
Ever?
Yep. Right after they hear Ready, Aim, Fire.
As long as we keep believing them…
‘Discovered after the fact’, how do you even do that?, I call BS.
‘Report: Former White House Officials Suspect Gen. Mattis Kept Chinese Spy Balloon Incursions Secret from Trump‘
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/06/report-former-white-house-officials-suspect-gen-mattis-kept-chinese-spy-balloon-incursions-secret-from-trump/
General Mattis Denies Reports – Says He HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF CCP BALLOON Flying Over US During His Time as Secretary of Defense under Trump – GWP 02-06-23
So nobody in the Trump administration ID’ed any China Balloons, Biden’s Intel team just made it all up. Biden has to be the biggest ‘presidential’ LIAR ever.
Someone should ask General Solemeini how President Trump would have dealt with a Chinese Spy Balloon…..
Even their excuses don’t make sense anymore.
Well, they never did, but this one doesn’t in such an insanely obvious manner…
Difficult to find the facts when most of the players lie. We most certainly are at war with this government because truth is notably now the first casualty.
But but general Mattis claims it wasn’t true.
Trump needs to throw all the Democrats’ generals and admirals out, if he wins in 2024 whether this is true or not.
Generals in the Military The total number of generals in the US military is 653. Furthermore, each military branch has a limit on how many members can be promoted to a general. The maximum number of generals for each branch is: Army – 231 generals. Navy – 162 generals. Air Force – 198 generals. Marine Corps – 62 generals. Dump them all, and hope the colonels have not been castrated.
We know true because confirmed by the same 50 IC officials who claimed Hunter Laptop is Russia Disinfo!
If true then our US Military has been compromised by the CCP. Mark Miley is known to have been having conversations with CCP.
I want the whole govt burned to the ground. Preferably with them all inside
According to the left, Everything Trump has done is bad…..except this.
Stalin couldn’t have written a better mission statement!
A lie told often enough becomes the truth
The trick is to help the truth get its shoes on faster.
And every day ordinary people across our country are helping to do just that.
Especially sundance.
Can’t wait to hear Biden say it’s not my fault we are at war.
hahahahahahahahaha seriously laughable.
Any lie they tell us just is incredible that anyone believes anything. After you can keep your doctor, it was no different than the Chinese flying balloons over America, It was a test and we failed!
Sure thing. Why waste space on such foolishness?
Lies. again. I want my country back/
And THEY want us to believe that these balloons were floated over the U.S. while President Trump was in office, and “they” didn’t SCREAM IT all over in the various media, or held numerous hearings in congress, or any of that??? Unbelievable that they think We The People are so stupid to swallow this b.s!!!!
Mattis denies this! Everyday these commies find new ways to deepen the hate and angst against them! This is not good for them, eventually, as you see in other countries; people are going to rise up and “peacefully protest!”
Our Government is such a Clown Poop Show, we couldn’t defend against the Chinese trans scouts. I am ashamed i devoted 6 years in the military only to have those same people pee on my service. I hope it all falls down and we can eliminate the mistakes and begin anew, where only two genders exist to expand the species, mothers are mothers and care for their children, Fathers are there to support their families, and GOD is a part of our lives.
“and GOD is a part of our lives.”
Not just part. The center.
Eph 4: 14-16
…14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.
16 From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part
Well dirtdiver … it’s a good thing you’re no longer in the military … as you’d probably be dishonorably discharged for all your white rage.
White Rage? How did you sneak in here?