{"id":1835278,"date":"2023-02-04T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835278"},"modified":"2023-02-04T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T00:49:57","slug":"4-star-general-blasts-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-we-had-plenty-of-opportunity-to-take-it-down-over-aleutian-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-star-general-blasts-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-we-had-plenty-of-opportunity-to-take-it-down-over-aleutian-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"4-Star General Blasts Biden Over Chinese Spy Balloon: \u2018We Had Plenty Of Opportunity To Take It Down\u2019 Over Aleutian Islands"},"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\">40<\/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%2F4-star-general-blasts-biden-over-chinese-spy-balloon-we-had-plenty-of-opportunity-to-take-it-down-over-aleutian-islands%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=1835278&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>Jack Keane, a retired four-star Army general, slammed President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> Saturday was a day of celebration for the non-shooting down of the Chinese spy balloon, which flew over the U.S. during the last few days while it was thousands miles from the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Keane is a former Vice-Chairman of Staff for the United States Army. He made these remarks on Fox News shortly after the U.S. military shot down the spy balloon that passed South Carolina over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember, this was approaching the United States over water,\u201d Keane spoke. \u201cIt was approaching the Aleutian Islands over water. And we had plenty of opportunity to take it down then. And that\u2019s when it should have happened. We had to be tracking it from mainland China across the Pacific Ocean, and we had plenty of warning to put together an operation that we are conducting now on the east coast that should have been done there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>FOX NEWS HOST ARTHEL NEVIILLE: Yes, that was my last point. And I want to say, as we\u2019re watching this exclusive coverage of this Chinese spy balloon going down there over Surfside Beach, South Carolina, if you could talk to us about what happened in terms of coordinating this to get to this point now, General Keane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GENERAL JACK KEANE: Well, we\u2019ve had all of our sensors watching this, you know, for some time. Our military capability, which was involved in the attack, was also alerted. It has been planned for several days. I\u2019m assuming the president, you know, made a decision within the last 24 hours to take this out. They likely presented him with several options as to where the best place was to do it. He chose to head to the East Coast, which is much more populous than Montana. They probably decided not to do anything on land. If they weren\u2019t willing to do it over Montana, they\u2019re certainly not going to do it on the East coast of the United States or in transit to the East Coast. And they\u2019re taking advantage of obviously doing this safely in terms of civilians. And it\u2019s not a complicated operation, I don\u2019t believe, for the United States military to take a balloon moving at the speed it\u2019s moving at and bring it down. It&#8217;s not difficult to coordinate and gather the intelligence necessary to accomplish this. Can we now recover the sensor package? That\u2019s going to be iffy, given the size of this thing and how much it weighs. However, we did everything right from the beginning. This was happening over water. It was moving towards the Aleutian Islands. It was almost at the Aleutian Islands over water. We had plenty of time to get it down. And that\u2019s when it should have happened. It had to be tracked from China, across the Pacific Ocean. We had ample warning to prepare an operation on the east coast that would have been necessary. And by the way, we have alert aircraft in Alaska for the principal reason of a penetration coming largely from Russia, and that\u2019s why that aircraft are there. They would have been able respond to it if it approached the United States as the Aleutian Islands. Now we\u2019re doing it in the backdoor when it\u2019s leaving the United States \u2014 it\u2019s anti-climatic in that sense, but it still sends a message to China that we\u2019re not going to let you get away with this nonsense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-military-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-after-biden-let-it-travel-across-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Military Takes Down Chinese Spy Balloon after Biden Let it Travel Across Country<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired four-star Army General Jack Keane slammed President Joe Biden on Saturday for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. over the last several days when it was thousands of miles away from the continental U.S. Keane, a former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, made the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1835281,"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":[541],"tags":[7218,17627,17626,17453,3620,3675,4117,4010,12028,7682,15498,6893],"class_list":["post-1835278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-we","tag-4-star","tag-aleutian","tag-balloon","tag-biden","tag-blasts","tag-chinese","tag-down","tag-islands","tag-opportunity","tag-plenty","tag-spy"],"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\/1835278","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}