U.S. Military: We Failed To ‘Detect’ Chinese Spy Balloons Under Trump, Are Briefing Trump Officials | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

Publisher's Note: Following this noteworthy and infamous story regarding the Chinese Spy Balloon caper, an inarguable embarrassment for the feckless Biden Administration, will be this series of posts, an archival history, chronicling the Misinformational Misadventure that wholly embarrassed this leader of the Democratic Socialists' Authoritarian regime.

    The U.S. military admitted on Monday that it failed to detect Chinese spy balloons that entered into U.S. airspace during the Trump administration.

    The news comes after the U.S. military used an F-22 Raptor on Saturday to take out a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean using a single air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile that was fired at an altitude of approximately 58,000 feet. The decision to shoot down the spy balloon came after President Joe Biden allowed it to fly thousands of miles over the continental U.S. last week.

    After the balloon was shot down, reports surfaced that there were similar incursions that happened during the Trump administration but that those incidents were undetected. Fox News reported that a Chinese spy balloon crashed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii late last year.

    VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), told reporters: "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," said VanHerck. "And that's a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don't want to go into further detail."

    The Biden administration has reached out to key officials in the Trump administration and offered them briefings on how they discovered that these spy balloons had previously operated in U.S. airspace while not being detected. The Biden administration also wants to brief the former Trump officials about similar operations China is conducting in East Asia, South Asia and Europe.

    Bloomberg News reported that some Trump-era officials eventually learned that the balloons were a part of Chinese surveillance but that the officials would only learn about it weeks after the fact because the balloons carried jamming devices. The report said that Trump never had the opportunity to shoot them down.

    The report added that the three incidents under Trump and an earlier incident in the Biden administration were smaller incidents because the balloons loitered over U.S. airspace for much shorter periods of time than what happened last week.

    Politico reported that U.S. officials have discovered similar incursions by much smaller Chinese spy balloons in recent years, including a radar-jamming device off the coast of Virginia.

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Among the many other lackluster performance standards by the Biden Administration - the most recent, allowing the Chinese Spy Balloon unfettered access to the skies above this Sovereign Republic - Joe Biden's foreign policy is considered by most true experts to be mediocre to abysmal at best. If one were to give a fair assessment of the quality of this apex duty of this Executive Branch: What would be your opinion of the Biden Administration's Foreign Policy initiatives and, or obvious faux pas?

  President Biden is a Foreign Policy expert of consummate skill just like his brother, Jim, and his son, Hunter.

  America's First Idiot President is corruptly committed to making the World far less safe, while surrendering OUR United States of America's sovereignty whenever, wherever possible.

  Mr. Biden is MY President because I pay close attention to only what rewards me, thus demanding as little sacrifice as is my nature to offer, or shrug.

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