Some people really need to be fired if they’re only figuring out now that spy balloons crossed into the U.S. without being noticed at the time
This is how dumb they think we are: pic.twitter.com/2D9VHyIvN2
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 6, 2023
Let’s stay with CNN for a moment
Pentagon says it had an ‘awareness gap’ that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump
The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.
“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.
So, how do you know they occurred? He failed to answer that question.
“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”
Word salad. He also yammered about “having additional fidelity at this time”. But, did not answer questions over 1. how NORAD allowed the balloon to cross the U.S. and 2. what proof he has that they did whole Trump was president.
VanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”
That’s convenient, eh? But, don’t ask what those means are, years after the events supposedly occurred.
Past surveillance balloons were discovered at the beginning of the Biden administration because President Joe Biden directed the intelligence community “to increase both our vigilance and the assets that we were deploying to be able to detect Chinese efforts to spy against the United States,” said national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Oh, please. First, that sounds like pure mule fritters, second, how would this have picked up spy balloons, when they would have been looking for electronic? Seriously, they’re just making this crap up as the go.
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