{"id":1834413,"date":"2023-02-03T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834413"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:06:41","slug":"stefanik-demands-intel-briefing-on-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stefanik-demands-intel-briefing-on-chinese-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanik Demands Intel Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fstefanik-demands-intel-briefing-on-chinese-spy-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=1834413&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/5dce0dbb79cd9-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep.\u00a0Elise Stefanik (R-NY),\u00a0the\u00a0House Republican Conference Chair and senior member of the Intelligence and\u00a0Armed Services Committees, is demanding an intelligence briefing on the\u00a0suspected Chinese spy balloon \u201cviolating\u201d United States Airspace<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am demanding an immediate intelligence briefing so that we can know exactly how this happened and what malign intentions are behind this spying to ensure we hold China accountable so the CCP does not violate American sovereignty again,\u201d\u00a0Stefanik <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanik.house.gov\/press-releases?ID=425CC5DD-9CD8-421E-8068-21838491553E\"><\/a> as a senior member of the Intelligence Committee and\u00a0Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">Leland Weland Wells \/ LOCAL NEWS X \/TMX<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party\u2019s violation of the United States\u2019 airspace and growing military aggression is a threat to our national security. This should be a wakeup call for Joe Biden\u2019s weakness on the world stage,\u201d\u00a0Stefanik has been added. \u201c[Biden] can no longer allow China, our greatest geopolitical challenge, to undermine us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s demand for a briefing comes as\u00a0Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/03\/shoot-down-the-balloon-trump-calls-for-chinese-spy-balloon-to-be-shot-down\/\"><\/a>\u00a0on Thursday that the\u00a0United States has \u201cdetected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryder also added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. government including NORAD continues to closely monitor the balloon. The balloon is at an altitude far above that of commercial aircraft traffic. It does not pose a threat to civilians or military personnel. Over the years, instances of this type of balloon activity were previously observed. Once the balloon was detected, the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Breitbart News Kristina Woong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/03\/shoot-down-the-balloon-trump-calls-for-chinese-spy-balloon-to-be-shot-down\/\">reported<\/a>,\u00a0a senior defense official told reporters during a briefing, \u201cWe are confident that this high-altitude surveillance balloon belongs to the [People\u2019s Republic of China].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The same\u00a0official noted that\u00a0President Joe Biden had been briefed on the\u00a0situation and had asked for military options but was recommended by the\u00a0Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley, and the commander of NORTHCOM, Gen. Glen VanHerck \u201cnot to take kinetic action due to the risk to safety and security of the people on the ground from the possible debris field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump demanded that the Chinese spy balloon hovering over the United States be destroyed on Friday morning.\u00a0\u201cSHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON!\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/users\/realDonaldTrump\/statuses\/109800792959163239\"><\/a> His Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss reports for Breitbart news. You can write to him at <\/i><a href=\"mailto:jbliss@breitbart.com\"><i>jbliss@breitbart.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>@JacobMBliss<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Elise Stefanik (R-NY),\u00a0the\u00a0House Republican Conference Chair and senior member of the Intelligence and\u00a0Armed Services Committees, is demanding an intelligence briefing on the\u00a0suspected Chinese spy balloon \u201cviolating\u201d United States Airspace \u201cI am demanding an immediate intelligence briefing so that we can know exactly how this happened and what malign intentions are behind this spying to ensure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1834416,"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":[547],"tags":[17453,7060,4117,4201,7526,6893,3973],"class_list":["post-1834413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balloon","tag-briefing","tag-chinese","tag-demands","tag-intel","tag-spy","tag-stefanik"],"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\/1834413","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}