Citing senior U.S. officials, NBC News reported that the balloon was able to pick up signals intelligence such as communications from several military installations. The sophisticated surveillance balloon traveled over some of the locations multiple times while transmitting data back to Beijing in real time, NBCWhile the balloon was flying over the American homeland, Pentagon officials downplayed its ability to gather new information for the Chinese Communist government.
When asked for comment on the balloon’s capabilities, administration officials referred back to those February assessments, NBC said. President Biden previously said that the U.S. was able to predict the balloon’s path and took steps to shield sensitive information as its floated across the center of the country after entering U.S. airspace from Canada.
China maintains the balloon was on a civilian mission to collect weather data, and blew off course accidentally. But the Biden administration contended its trip across sensitive sites in the American heartland was a spy mission. The U.S. military recovered pieces of the balloon off the South Carolina coast after it was shot down Feb. 4.
So the spy balloon did spy on the nation. The administration said it didn't, waited an entire week to shoot it down & then lied about the whole debacle. It appears we need new management.
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That's just great.
Then it's a good thing they didn't shoot it down and endanger all that empty farmland.
You forget that he is sleepy Joe
So the exact thing the nation was worried about & told by the administration wasn't occurring, actually did happen. Instead of addressing the spy balloon before it reached US airspace, the administration waited until it accomplished its mission & failed to protect the country.