A top military commander said the US had not detected previous incursions by Chinese spy balloons as they took place during the Trump administration.
as they took place during the Trump administration – raising troubling questions about the security of US airspace.
That disclosure enraged veterans of the Trump White House, who lined up to insist they had heard of no such incidents during their time in government. “The intel community after the fact … assessed those threats from additional means of collection and made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transit in North America,” said VanHerck, who declined to describe the kinds of information he said intelligence officials received to confirm the prior Chinese balloon trespassing.
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo told Fox News he had not been offered any sort of briefing and that he doubted such an offer would be made. The radars NORAD and the military rely upon are designed to detect more threatening airborne objects such as missiles, which are impenetrable and reflect radar waves, Heath said.
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