{"id":1834112,"date":"2023-02-03T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834112"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:20:46","slug":"gop-demands-immediate-intelligence-briefing-on-chinese-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-demands-immediate-intelligence-briefing-on-chinese-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Demands &#8216;Immediate Intelligence Briefing&#8217; on Chinese Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-demands-immediate-intelligence-briefing-on-chinese-balloon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834112&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Elise Stefanik, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and chairwoman of the Republican Conference (N.Y.), demanded this Friday &#8220;an immediate intelligence briefing&#8221; The Chinese spy balloon hovering above Montana<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s violation of the United States&#8217; airspace and growing military aggression is a threat to our national security,&#8221; Stefanik said in a press release. According to Stefanik, the congresswoman demanded that she be briefed. &#8220;so that we can know exactly how this happened and what malign intentions are behind this spying to ensure we hold China accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beijing on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-claims-spy-balloon-floating-over-us-nuclear-sites-is-for-scientific-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> Responsibility for the air balloon, including the claim of the &#8220;airship&#8221; Was for &#8220;meteorological and other scientific research.&#8221; The Pentagon allegedly instructed President Joe Biden to not shoot the balloon down for fear of being damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik joins many lawmakers in asking for Biden&#8217;s action in light the balloon. &#8220;China&#8217;s brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed, and President Biden cannot be silent,&#8221; Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker (R. Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik echoed this sentiment, stating that Biden must ensure the Chinese Communist Party is up and running &#8220;does not violate American sovereignty again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Intelligence Committee member and Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) on Friday demanded &#8220;an immediate intelligence briefing&#8221; on the Chinese spy balloon floating over Montana.<br \/>\nThe post GOP Demands &#8216;Immediate Intelligence Briefing&#8217; on Chinese Balloon appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1834115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[17453,7060,4117,4201,6203,6057,4786],"class_list":["post-1834112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-balloon","tag-briefing","tag-chinese","tag-demands","tag-gop","tag-immediate","tag-intelligence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}