{"id":2134067,"date":"2023-12-26T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-tried-to-keep-chinese-spy-balloon-incident-hidden-from-public\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:25:17","slug":"biden-admin-tried-to-keep-chinese-spy-balloon-incident-hidden-from-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-tried-to-keep-chinese-spy-balloon-incident-hidden-from-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Concealed Chinese Spy Balloon Incident"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-tried-to-keep-chinese-spy-balloon-incident-hidden-from-public%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=2134067&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--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Ryan Seelbach\/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>3:20 PM \u2013 Tuesday, December\u200c 26, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Reports reveal that the Biden Administration had initially planned to keep China&#8217;s surveillance \u2062balloon hidden from the public and Congress. However, their plan was foiled \u200bwhen civilians in Montana spotted the massive white blimp.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call between President Joe Biden&#8217;s top military adviser General Mark Milley and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) \u200dChief General Glen VanHerck, it was\u2062 revealed\u200b that the Biden Administration had initially\u2063 planned\u200d to\u200b keep the presence of China&#8217;s spy balloon a secret.<\/p>\n<p>A former senior authority claimed that the administration had surveilled the\u200c Chinese surveillance balloon \u200bin an attempt to conceal the \u2063situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;Before \u200dit was spotted publicly, there was\u200c the intention to study\u200c it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,&#8221; the former senior U.S. official told the press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2062Chinese spy balloon entered U.S.\u2062 airspace on January \u206428th and was\u200b later shot down on February 4th after floating over several nuclear missile sites.<\/p>\n<p>However, a senior Biden administration official denied claims that the incident was meant to be concealed, stating that quick decisions were made to protect critical intelligence capabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;To the \u2064extent any of this was kept quiet at all, that \u2062was \u200din\u200d large part\u200c to protect intel equities related \u2064to finding and tracking them,&#8221; the official told the press. &#8220;There was no intention to keep this from Congress\u2063 at any point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Milley informed VanHerck during the phone call that the Pentagon \u2063had planned to send F-22 jets and additional aircraft to measure the \u200bsize and characteristics of the balloon.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military jets\u2062 used\u2062 targeting pods to identify the object as &#8220;a balloon the size of three school buses that had a large surveillance\u2064 payload but no offensive capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, \u2064VanHerck stated that the Chinese balloon program is \u200bstill active and that the\u2064 U.S. lacks the capability to locate or track their efforts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;It exposed significant gaps,\u200d long-range gaps, for us to be able to see potential threats to the homeland,&#8221;\u200d VanHerck said. &#8220;I think that opened the eyes of a\u2064 lot of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VanHerck added that the U.S. is not adequately prepared in terms of \u2062deterrence options.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;Time is the opportunity to \u2062create deterrence options or, if required, defeat options,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials\u200d emphasized that the reputational damage caused by the spy balloon posed a greater threat to China and\u2063 U.S. relations than its \u2064actual entry \u200binto \u2062U.S. airspace.<\/p>\n<p>According\u2063 to\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-reopens-railroad-crossings-at-border-following-democratic-blowback\/\" title=\"Biden reopens border railroad crossings after Democratic backlash\">senior administration \u200dofficial<\/a>, &#8220;it \u200bcaused so many problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The balloon \u200bwas shot \u200bdown over open water off \u2063the coast of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! \u200bReceive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this \u200dpost!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In a world of growing darkness and wokeness, one \u2062mom has written a new book that seems\u200b to be resonating\u2063 with Americans.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The U.S. builds a coalition to\u200d fight back Houthi attacks against shipping in the Red Sea despite meeting with some resistance from the international \u2062community.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>North Dakota Representative Nico Rios is captured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-book-on-the-value-of-freedom-and-free-thinking\/\" title=\"New book explores freedom and free thinking's worth\">camera making shocking remarks<\/a> to an officer during a \u2062DUI arrest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The year 2023 has been unprecedented in American \u2062politics and it&#8217;s all \u2063centered around one man, Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>December 22, 2023 \u2013 6:05 AM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2013 Chinese regulators \u2064announced on Friday a \u2062wide range \u2064of rules aimed\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One\u200d of the main bottlenecks for Tesla is the speed at which \u200cit can produce the \u20644680 batteries used in the Cybertruck with \u200cits new dry-coating technology.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A \u200cgroup of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of\u200d misusing books the authors have \u2063written to train their models.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford\u2062 contacted Tesla\u200b about \u2064data on an alleged stalker&#8217;s remote access to a vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How did civilians in Montana discover the massive white blimp and disrupt the\u2063 administration&#8217;s plan?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Reports have emerged revealing that the\u2064 Biden \u200dAdministration had initially planned to keep China&#8217;s surveillance \u2063balloon hidden from \u200bthe public \u2062and Congress. However, their plan was foiled when civilians in \u2064Montana spotted the massive white\u200c blimp.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone\u2063 call between President Joe Biden&#8217;s top military adviser General Mark Milley and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)\u2063 Chief\u2064 General Glen VanHerck,\u200c it was revealed that \u200bthe Biden Administration had initially planned to keep \u2063the presence of China&#8217;s spy \u200dballoon\u200c a secret.<\/p>\n<p>A former senior authority claimed that the administration \u2063had \u2063surveilled the\u2064 Chinese surveillance balloon in an attempt to conceal the situation. &#8220;Before it was spotted publicly, there was \u200cthe intention to study it and let \u200bit pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,&#8221; the former senior U.S. official told the press.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese \u200bspy balloon entered U.S.\u2062 airspace on January\u2063 28th \u2063and \u2064was later \u2063shot\u2062 down on February 4th after floating over several \u200dnuclear missile sites.<\/p>\n<p>However, a senior Biden administration official denied claims that the\u200c incident \u2063was \u200bmeant to be concealed, \u2062stating that quick decisions were \u200cmade to protect\u2063 critical \u2062intelligence capabilities. &#8220;To the extent\u2063 any of\u2062 this was kept \u2064quiet at all, that was in large part to protect intel equities related to finding and tracking them,&#8221; the official \u200ctold the press. &#8220;There was no intention \u200cto keep this from Congress\u200c at any point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milley informed VanHerck during the phone call that\u2063 the Pentagon\u2062 had \u2062planned to send F-22 jets and additional aircraft to measure the\u2063 size and\u200c characteristics of the\u200c balloon. U.S.\u2064 military \u2063jets used targeting \u2062pods\u2064 to identify the \u2062object \u200das\u2062 &#8220;a \u200bballoon the size of three school buses that had \u2062a large surveillance payload but no offensive capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, VanHerck stated \u200dthat the Chinese balloon program is \u2063still active and that the\u2064 U.S. lacks\u200b the capability to\u2062 locate or track their efforts. &#8220;It exposed significant gaps, long-range gaps, \u2062for us to\u2062 be able to\u200b see potential threats to the homeland,&#8221; VanHerck said. &#8220;I think that opened the eyes of a lot of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VanHerck added\u200b that the U.S. is not adequately prepared in terms of\u2062 deterrence \u2063options. &#8220;Time is the opportunity to create deterrence options or, if required, defeat options,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials\u200d emphasized\u200b that the reputational damage caused\u200c by the spy balloon posed a\u2062 greater threat to China and U.S. \u2062relations than its actual entry into\u2064 U.S. airspace. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles 'Anonymous' Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">senior administration official<\/a>, \u200b&#8221;it caused so many\u2064 problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was \u200cultimately shot down over open water off the coast of South\u200d Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>This incident highlights the need for\u200b improved surveillance and deterrence capabilities to protect\u200d national security interests. The Biden Administration must address these gaps \u2062and work towards\u2062 enhancing the country&#8217;s \u200bability to detect and counter \u200cpotential threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAN&#8217;s Elizabeth Volberding reported that the Biden Administration initially intended to hide China&#8217;s surveillance balloon from Congress and the public. 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