We all know Joe Biden has been bought off by China, but this is getting ridiculous. Not only was Joe Biden pissed off that news about the Chinese spy balloon that flew over this country got out, but he flat out wanted to protect Xi and the communists by making sure Americans never knew about it in the first place. This after Biden let the spy balloon fly over important United States military sites for eight days and rely data back to China.
A Jan. 27 phone call between the top U.S. general at the time and Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) triggered an eight-day crisis as the Biden administration scrambled to respond to a novel threat from China, NBC News reported.
Biden administration officials privately lamented that the public outcry and reputational consequences for Beijing following the spy balloon’s reveal that rocked the world in early 2023 damaged relations with China while overrepresenting the national security threat actually posed by the balloon, according to NBC. The administration initially hoped to keep the balloon’s existence a secret from Congress and the public, the outlet reported, citing multiple former and current administration and congressional officials.
“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” one former senior U.S. official briefed on the situation told NBC. =
However, a senior Biden administration official denied any attempt to conceal the incident, saying decisions were made to protect sensitive intelligence capabilities.
“To the extent any of this was kept quiet at all, that was in large part to protect intel equities related to finding and tracking them,” the official told NBC. “There was no intention to keep this from Congress at any point.”