Guy who claims a single weather balloon from a foreign country is enough to put our national security at risk wants to lecture us about weakness. Interesting.
That’s the reason why your party hasn’t won a single race in MT in presidential elections since 1996. Your attitude is similar to Hillary Clinton response to Congress about her responsibility in the Benghazi attack in which she said, quote, « What difference at this point does it make? » That’s one of the reasons she has lost the election of 2016. The intelligence China collected was mostly electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images. It is not my words, these are the words of the officials. So it’s naive to say that this was a civilian airship used for research and metheorological purposes
So you would rather believe Xi Jinping than the U.S. military officials and intelligence officials that are sworn to protect our nation
From your own article:
The Defense Department directed NBC News to comments senior officials made in February that the balloon had “limited additive value” for intelligence collection by the Chinese government “over and above what [China] is likely able to collect through things like satellites in low earth orbit.”
On Monday, a Defense Department spokesperson reiterated that any intelligence collected had "limited additive value" for China and said she could not confirm that the balloon had transmitted any information back to China in "real time."
National Security Council spokesperson Kirby John declined to answer questions Monday afternoon about what kind of electronic signals or communications the balloon could have accessed.
“Knowing it was going to enter U.S. airspace we took action to limit the ability of this balloon to garner anything of additive or especially useful content,” said Kirby. “So again, I won’t get ahead of what we’re learning off this thing.”
And obviously senators need to be very careful what they're telling reporters after a classified session.
