{"id":1847809,"date":"2023-02-15T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847809"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:41:52","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-balloon-mysteries-team-biden-needs-to-explain-what-in-hell-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-balloon-mysteries-team-biden-needs-to-explain-what-in-hell-is-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Balloon Mysteries: Team Biden Needs to Explain What in Hell Is Going On"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fny-post-editorial-board-balloon-mysteries-team-biden-needs-to-explain-what-in-hell-is-going-on%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=1847809&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--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>After four \u201cballoon\u201d Shootdowns in nine Days <em>plus <\/em>official denials after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/13\/top-general-not-ruling-out-aliens-after-3-ufos-shot-down\/\">This could be an alien thing from space, according to one general.<\/a>Only one thing is certain: The Biden administration must get more facts out and provide explanations or conspiracy theories will reign.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s White House statement stated that President Joe Biden does not intend to explain his decision. Ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p>Are there more balloons coming? Or has US policy changed to allow for more balloons? \u201cdown them all\u201d approach \u2014 and if so, why? The White House may be desperate to prove its toughness after being caught trying to allow the first Chinese spycraft to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>Biden so far has not offered anything more than <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/08\/biden-showed-complete-lack-of-leadership-in-failing-to-address-china-in-state-of-the-union\/\">His State of the Union boasts a few words<\/a> speech, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/10\/biden-downplays-chinese-spy-balloon-claims-not-a-major-breach\/\">Telemundo makes a vague claim<\/a> The first one was \u201cno major breach.\u201d Yet reports suggest Biden wasn\u2019t told about that first balloon for several days. Was <em>That<\/em> policy? Are you still a part of it?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331.jpg?1676314237\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25750755\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25750755\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331.jpg?1676314237&#038;w=1024&#038;1676314237\" alt=\"The Chinese spy balloon getting shot down off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-25750755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 2000w, 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https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331-37.jpg, 154&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331-38.jpg, 215&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331-39.jpg, 58&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331-40.jpg, 100&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/newspress-collage-25749573-1676332169331-41.jpg, 33&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 50w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>The Chinese spy balloon was shot down just off the coast South Carolina, on February 4, 2023.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Randall Hill\/File Photos<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The nation\u2019s learned that three Trump-era balloons were only <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/06\/norad-missed-chinese-spy-balloon-flights-during-trump-admin-general-admits\/\">ID\u2019d as likely spycraft long after the fact<\/a>. And it\u2019s <em>Get it now<\/em> The Pentagon secretly announced that it was aware that many UFOs that were listed as such were actually spy balloons a year back.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/11\/us-blacklists-chinese-companies-over-spy-balloon-program\/\">Washington Is suddenly sanctioning<\/a> It claims that spy-balloon operations were being carried out by Chinese companies. Or explain the timing. It appears like another retroactive effort. <em>Look <\/em>tough.<\/p>\n<p>China, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/13\/china-says-us-flew-high-altitude-balloons-over-its-airspace\/\">Protests against US balloons<\/a> Crossing <em>It<\/em> territory. We hope so \u2014 though it\u2019s also true that Beijing <em>Claims<\/em> lots of territory that the rest of the world doesn\u2019t acknowledge. So perhaps the Pentagon\u2019s denial is true, though reports of US spy-balloon programs date back years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the opposition asking questions. Rep. Jim Himes, a top Dem on House Intelligence Committee (D-Conn.), this weekend stated that he has. \u201creal concerns about why the administration is not being more forthcoming with everything that it knows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some spy-vs.-spy stuff needs to be secret, but at this point the nation deserves some clear answers \u2014 and cause to believe our leaders have solid national-security reasons for <em>Whatever<\/em> it is they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four \u201cballoon\u201d Shootdowns in nine Days plus official denials after This could be an alien thing from space, according to one general.Only one thing is certain: The Biden administration must get more facts out and provide explanations or conspiracy theories will reign. Monday&#8217;s White House statement stated that President Joe Biden does not intend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847812,"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":[17453,3620,3664,6616,5197,18702,4899,4000],"class_list":["post-1847809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balloon","tag-biden","tag-board","tag-editorial","tag-explain","tag-mysteries","tag-post","tag-team"],"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\/1847809","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=1847809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}