The White House spokesman said it was “exactly the right thing to do” either way.
Kirby faced the press one day after the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade said its silver party-style balloon may have been“We all have to accept the possibility that we may not be able to recover” debris from the objects, Kirby said before asking reporters to put themselves in Biden’s position.
White House spokesman John Kirby said President Biden didn’t overreact by ordering fighter jets to pop a possibly $12 ballon.
The spokesman then asked: “Wouldn’t that be a better outcome, if it turns out that they were in fact civilian or recreational use or for weather use and therefore benign as the intelligence community thinks? Isn’t that a better outcome than to have to think about the possibility of greater threats to our national security?”
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