Chinese spy balloon gathered intelligence
from sensitive U.S. military sites, despite
U.S. efforts to block it
NBC News,
by
Courtney Kube
&
Carol E. Lee
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
4/3/2023 10:42:15 AM
The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration’s efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official.
China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said. The intelligence China collected was mostly from electronic signals, which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 4/3/2023 10:42:36 AM (No. 1439928)
Lazy 8s in a balloon over multiple US strategic assets?
Every single single possible effort known to mankind since creation but one.
The Black Sox. A thrown game.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WWIIDaughter 4/3/2023 10:53:36 AM (No. 1439949)
Who would have guessed that NBC (!) would be producing campaign ads for President Trump? All this needs is a voice-over and pix of FJB eating ice cream, Xi laughing, and Trump being Trump.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 4/3/2023 10:54:53 AM (No. 1439952)
And the checks keep rolling in for Hunter and his dad
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/3/2023 11:03:15 AM (No. 1439962)
II don't understand the ChiComs. Why spend all the money and potentially cause a wr when all they had to do was give Hunter a couple of million bucks and Joe would have told them everything they wanted to know
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 4/3/2023 11:04:13 AM (No. 1439963)
Treason for Joey. He allowed it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Msquared112 4/3/2023 11:07:36 AM (No. 1439966)
As Dan Bongino has been saying for months, Joe Biden is a foreign agent, a traitor. We have lost our electoral integrity, we have lost our patriotism, we have lost our energy independence, we have lost our Christians moorings, we have lost our decency, our morality, our shining city on a hill. The Democrat-Marxist apparatus in American and in Davos are responsible, going back quite a few years.
What remains are two things: Can we be saved? Second, who will do it and how, considering our elections no longer matter? Many of us are too old to do much, but what is the excuse of younger people? I don't see much action from the comfortable Right. As Bongino also says, "How bad does it have to get before we do something drastic?"
Right now, all we've got is to form a parallel economy to get away from these people. We can secede, riot in the streets, or do a serious insurrection. Those are the options on the Right. What will work? Any suggestions? Seriously.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/3/2023 11:11:07 AM (No. 1439972)
The efforts to "block it", it Joe really wanted to protect us, and his band of fools and traitors do not, would have been to have put it down into the ocean before it came ashore.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GeneK 4/3/2023 11:11:46 AM (No. 1439974)
"...despite the Biden administration's to block it..."?
Don't make me laugh. The FAA probably gave it a flight path.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/3/2023 11:22:56 AM (No. 1439988)
Every American with an IQ over 75 knew this from the moment the balloon was spotted. Email to FJB from China: Thanks, Joe. The check is in the mail.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 4/3/2023 11:29:02 AM (No. 1439990)
What " efforts " ?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/3/2023 11:30:22 AM (No. 1439992)
this is so treasonous it's beyond any level of understanding - diapers must be expelled from office and ... all his commie associates within our government, plus a few who are not in our government
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/3/2023 11:31:04 AM (No. 1439993)
What efforts to stop were those? A balloon crosses the U.S., taking a week, then is shot down--after it has photographed all our military installation. NBC is a total slop news organization.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/3/2023 11:38:46 AM (No. 1440004)
Of course it did - and the Biden White House made the decision to allow it to complete its mission before taking it down.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Namma 4/3/2023 11:43:23 AM (No. 1440009)
The "effort" by the biden administration to keep info from being picked up by the balloon was to tell the military personnel on the base, was to stop talking while the balloon was overhead. that was the extent of slojoie's stopping info from being transmitted to china china had complete control over that spy balloon. Could direct that thing in any direction they wanted it to fly. Could have been shot down over Alaska. wonder how much joe got for allowing the balloon to fly.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/3/2023 11:43:27 AM (No. 1440010)
Wait, didn't our military leadership state they were able to jam the signal, and prevent them from collecting any data?
So, I suspect they knew this, but decided to let them do it anyhow. Bet they thought by shooting it down after it completed it's mission that they wouldn't be able to collect that data.
And, we are supposed to believe things they tell us?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Krause 4/3/2023 11:46:26 AM (No. 1440012)
Imo, I think Obama knew the Biden family was making deals with Ukraine, Russia and China. Especially China. In order knock America down a few pegs he needed a power like China to help in this destruction, all with the WEF and the UN cheering from the sidelines. The left media keeping their readers and listeners in the dark also was a big help in this coup attempt. Did you ever wonder why the left media doesn’t allow comments after their articles? They don’t want their captive readers to hear the truth about what’s going on. Obama is still the driving force behind all this. with foreign actors involved.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Scottyboy 4/3/2023 11:46:44 AM (No. 1440013)
….. and recall how the Illegitimate Biden regime wasn’t even going to tell us about it until engaged and informed Americans pointed out the threat and President Trump told them to shoot it down.
The Biden regime is a national security threat in itself.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 4/3/2023 12:02:52 PM (No. 1440026)
Of course it did. Thoroughly Modern Milley was on the case. Xi gave Joey Baby orders, Joey Baby followed them. No surprises here.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/3/2023 12:14:31 PM (No. 1440029)
And the Chicoms paid good money, millions, to the Biden family for that information. The balloon was allowed to complete its mission, the Chicoms got what they wanted from us, and the offending balloon was intrepidly shot down in the Atlantic by Brave Sir Robinette as CNN trembled in admiration and let its bowels loose in joy. What manner of man. What an athlete. Watch him jog three steps!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 4/3/2023 12:45:37 PM (No. 1440048)
Wow! I'm SO shocked! I mean, who (with 2 or more functioning brain cells) could have possibly seen this coming???!!
/s
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 4/3/2023 12:53:23 PM (No. 1440053)
This administration attempt to block data collection is like using wax paper for sun glasses
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 4/3/2023 1:09:00 PM (No. 1440068)
When American politicians are on the Chinese payroll, permission for spying is granted. Personal wealth comes first, anything else is second. LETS GO BRANDON
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/3/2023 1:37:15 PM (No. 1440085)
And the moron didn't bother to take it down until it's mission was accompolished.
Keep those checks coming Xi.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rochow 4/3/2023 2:12:21 PM (No. 1440107)
Classified docs that spy bidet had given to them over the years were not enough. So bidet and 'general' Milley vanilly turned a blind eye to Chinese spying. After all Milley is on a regular with his Chinese counterpart. It was the bidet who kept lying that it was a weather balloon. Right! With trash like this what could possibly go wrong! 23 military installations!!! They have a treasure trove, what do we have? A lying POS in the WH!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 4/3/2023 2:59:26 PM (No. 1440137)
No $#!@. Thanks to the Montanans who spotted it, but by then, SIGINT (Signal Intelligence)was already had by the CCP.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
nerdowell 4/3/2023 3:38:54 PM (No. 1440167)
I know it's trivial, but which of the two sides spent more on this event? I don't know what all the Chinese had aboard that balloon but i bet they could have outfitted it with stuff purchased off of Alibaba, free shipping to boot.
Biden, on the other hand, allows it to complete its mission and then spectacularly blows it to smithereens, employing a 1/4 --1/2 million dollar missile. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware to do something a bow and arrow could have done , and without scattering pieces half- way across the Atlantic.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Patty48 4/3/2023 9:41:47 PM (No. 1440391)
I seem to remember this guy at MaraLago jumping up and down yelling…Shoot it down!….as it casually wandered over America. Of course Beijing Biden didn’t listen.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 4/4/2023 6:36:22 AM (No. 1440538)
OK KJP, who is lying, Biden or NBC?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
paral04 4/4/2023 8:55:38 AM (No. 1440632)
They could have blocked it by shooting it down as soon as it was identified as such. Biden let them have all they wanted to see whie his bank account filled up to the brim.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 4/4/2023 10:13:47 PM (No. 1441187)
What efforts to block? What a crock!
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