{"id":1872650,"date":"2023-03-09T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-and-wicker-claim-pentagon-has-not-answered-key-questions-about-chinese-spy-balloon\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:32:26","slug":"rubio-and-wicker-claim-pentagon-has-not-answered-key-questions-about-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-and-wicker-claim-pentagon-has-not-answered-key-questions-about-chinese-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio and Wicker claim Pentagon has not answered key questions about Chinese spy 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\">28<\/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%2Frubio-and-wicker-claim-pentagon-has-not-answered-key-questions-about-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=1872650&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78304703\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Senate Intelligence Committee grills intel officials Biden admin blocking access in document cases\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee grilled intel officials this week on why the Biden administration continues to block their access in the Trump and Biden document cases. 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Austin received last month a query from senators about when the U.S. intelligence detected the balloon, and what date it was discovered by President Barack Obama. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden <\/a>Notified. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/austin-embarks-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LLOYD AUSTIN EMBARKS ON TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST TO REASSURE ALLIES<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In particular, we await documentation demonstrating when senior officials learned of the balloon and at what point you, and the President, were provided response options,&#8221; Senators <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000186-c33f-db60-a3bf-ebff76f00000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;The simple point of the letter was to establish baseline facts to inform all members of Congress.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"> <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"430\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\"><\/source><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source><source width=\"1060\" height=\"707\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\"><\/source>                                 <\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\"> Marco Rubio, Vice Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters following a closed-door briefing about China&#8217;s surveillance balloon, which flew recently over the United States. The briefing was held at Capitol in Washington, February 9, 2023.                 <\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">                 J. Scott Applewhite\/AP                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The confusion centers on the belief that Gen. Glen\u00a0VanHerck, the leader of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command,<b> <\/b>His chain of command was notified about the balloon by Austin on Jan. 28, while it was hovering over the Aleutian Islands. However, Austin wasn&#8217;t aware that the balloon was there until several days later, when it had flown over Alaska and Canada. The balloon was then back in U.S. Airspace. <\/p>\n<p>VanHerck also came under scrutiny of the House of Representatives Wednesday. Member of the House Armed Services Committee <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/rep-don-bacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Bacon<\/a> VanHerck, (R\u2013NE) was asked if VanHerck knew if Biden had been briefed by the Pentagon until the balloon was visible to the general public. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congressman, I can&#8217;t answer that question because I didn&#8217;t specifical<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/rubio-wicker-pentagon-questions-chinese-balloon\">Rubio and Wicker claim Pentagon has not answered key questions about Chinese spy balloon<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Roger Wicker (R\u2013MS) claimed Wednesday, in a correspondence that the Pentagon Their questions regarding the Chinese spy ball that was launched from China have not been answered satisfactorily. discovered In January, United States Airspace This letter was addressed to the Secretary of Defense Lloyd AustinThe Pentagon wasn&#8217;t clear about the order &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896803,"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":[538],"tags":[7167,17453,4117,4893,7233,3761,4245,5438,6893,5704],"class_list":["post-1872650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-answered","tag-balloon","tag-chinese","tag-claim","tag-key","tag-pentagon","tag-questions","tag-rubio","tag-spy","tag-wicker"],"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\/1872650","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=1872650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}