The Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the U.S. for several days was able to gather intelligence as it passed over sensitive American military sites before it was shot down, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official. NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell has more details.
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Why would they spy like that unless planning to attack
They really plan to start a war. US military budget should be doubled for deterrence
balloon is such a good weapon to move people's focus
China just eyeing on local markets if they could sell fish in the super markets. Y'all serious for nothing
1942 weather balloon with a GoPro
Yea ok
Billions of Intelligence funds and yet.
The best measure would have been to intercept. But what do I know , I'm just a mere pleeb.
I saw this on TikTok before the government saw it…
China is No.1 threat to Global Economy. USA is a mighty leader & China wants to take down USA using other nations by creating hate. If USA falls down then China can come after each & every Democratic nations on Earth.
How else are we going to get folks to develop a work ethic? The days of lemonade stands, paper routes, and mowing the neighborhood lawns are over.
Yeah, I don't feel safe. The USA gets mad about the wrong things. Leave Trump alone and start dealing with Saudi Arabia, Russia and China. Our enemies are creating an alliance. But we keep putting Trump in court. How stupid are we.
This is either gross incompetence by the US or an excuse to raise support of the US public for war with China. Do not trust the intelligence agencies. Every war after WW2 they lied us into them.
Way to go biden
I do realize that most people, especially right wingers, are incredibly stupid. So incredibly stupid, that they would think the CIA would tell the media that they hacked the balloon and fed china bad information.
Just prepping for Taiwan is what they are doing.
They are saying that it had a propeller and rudder?
It didn't look like it in any of the photos of it when it was in the sky.
Unless all the media outlets were using stock footage?
This is sadly funny.
Fake news. This is America and they hate China here. Therefore they have to make news to accused China.
And the protesters say "China is not an enemy." 😂
From the looks of it, seems like they are already planning something nefarious.
Joe Biden is weak. All he cares about is making money for himself and family from Russia and China. China has the Biden family wrapped around their finger. We will be attacked on US soil very soon.
Self destruct mechanism. Why aren’t we now going after China?
Decades ago, presidents wanted to tweak legal rights, so that safety is more secured here with our laws being made better elaborated properly.
Their in the wrong for acting like we are acting like we are the ones to originally say anything at all like that Chinese families shouldn’t be legalized here, but that’s their misunderstandings, that’s what their incorrectly thinking.
We only wanted our government to check them for anything illegal, if they are sent back to their country, or arrested, it could be for bringing anything that is a threat to American citizens safety for one that for why they’ll be unauthorized to be in our country is cause of not wanting terrorism to spend brought here.
Another thing here is that if ancestors that came here legally established a family here and one they died while their kids were grown old enough to have American licenses and such, they would then be the people allowed in our country cause their people called Asian Americans.
TOO BAD BIDEN WASN'T IN THAT BALLOON. WHILE IT WAS DISMANTLED 😮😮
usa back at it again with the schizophrenic behavior
I thing personal but after spending so much of my life in the military over various administrations…….this administration does not care about our nation, nor it’s people or it’s security or future. I am sad to say this but I am very fortunate to have finally left the military. I feel this way so much so that it broke my heart when the day came that I told my son not to reenlist. Our executive branch does not care what happens to us any longer.
Duh.
You American are so naived the Chinese
Collected the info they were looking for already..
Why you don't send a ballon from here
To China to collect info from the Chinese..
Get even.
Not surprising or shocking, just sad.
Yeah that was not much of an update
Bidens that slow haha Chooses to shoot it down a week later after it’s already crossed the length of the country 😂
Praise China. Biden 2024! Flush Donald Dump
The United States of China. I don't like the sound of it but we all better get used to saying it. I used to think that the men and women of the military would honor their oath and defend America against all enemies foreign and domestic. Biden and his minions are some of the worst enemies this country has ever seen.
How much did China pay Biden for doing nothing! What a f*****g mess Biden has America in. God bless America!!! Pray ya all !!! for America and Americans because if China and Russia invade us we will be like ukraine.
Dhotini pani raicha
School shootings, tornadoes, flooding, legalizing a plant that is paramount to alcohol while operating heavy machinery or upholding the law or performing surgery, more and more legislation against legal gun ownership while those who would commit crime are armed to the teeth.
Fentanyl is now the gross national product of the drug distributors, slingers and user.
Because of all the infighting, America is more vulnerable than ever.
All along jackals such as Mayor Fullop Jersey City NJ prosper by selling off what was a United States plot by plot, city block by city block…
China is attacking us. They are fighting a different war with covid and Fentanyl and then the balloon.
Can't wait for third world war.
I just can’t fckkng believe ppl are still talking about this ballon….
It’s laughable idiots on tiktok use Chinese spyware and then freak out about a balloon.
Okay how stupid do y'all think we are?
Isnt it the CIA’s job to stop things like this from happening?
I just can’t believe that the MSM actually put this out. It’s always silence from these channels if it makes the regime look bad. This was almost real journalism.
China has fooled the US with this balloon, it's a spy balloon and US realized lately it's a spy balloon that's why US shoot it down!. China is becoming so good everyday and US cannot sleep to that!
Why not blue
Wait – seriously? It only took a week for our alleged leaders to respond. Plenty of time to do some real damage to our intelligence infrastructure. Bye bye
Covert?😂 Civilians could see it😅not much of a covert mission
It had all of these capabilities and yet you waited for it to cross the entire nation, including Alaska. Extremely poor leadership and decision making. But what can we expect from a president who has a hard time getting through a sentence.
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I surrendered a few hours ago or minutes, whenever I used the phrase “please note”. Notice that as a civilian I no longer have any authority to instruct nor advise. Like I told Mister State, I was only interested in our Labor Force Development Plan. After that notice I was only going to wrap up the handover to civilian authority. Yes I did stretch the rubber a lot. But I was not going to let chaos interrupt my leisure.