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2023-07-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese surveillance balloon did not collect information over US, Pentagon

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 Same question, different DC situation.

Who and how are we to believe anything coming out of this Coup and its supporters ?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-01 07:25|| 2023-07-01 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 ...We believe... Not we know. Just another obfuscation from our unbelievable folks in the Pentagon.

Posted by Tarzan Grolump8219 2023-07-01 08:01|| 2023-07-01 08:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Because doing it for no good reason at all is exactly what US gummint would do.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-01 08:33|| 2023-07-01 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The position is that the US DoD couldn't use a balloon to gather intel, so no one else could either.
("And besides, we could buy an 'intel gathering option' for the F35 for a mere $150B, so that would be more effective.") (I just made all that up, BTW.)

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-01 08:36|| 2023-07-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 But, far, far more important to the Pentagon these days, did the balloon use the appropriate pronouns when describing secrets back to its homeland?

Posted by CrazyFool in Texas 2023-07-01 08:36|| 2023-07-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps the balloon data was downloaded by the USG, portions redacted, then retransmitted to the CCP ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-01 08:59|| 2023-07-01 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 If it flew over Berkley, i can accept the ‘no intelligence collected’story.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-07-01 09:21|| 2023-07-01 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 That's correct, comrades - the CCP surveillence balloon did not perform any surveillence whatsoever.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-07-01 09:35|| 2023-07-01 09:35|| Front Page Top

#9 did not collect intelligence while flying over the country

If nothing else, nominal wind direction, rate-of-travel and altitude can be predictive of bio-dispersal and/or fallout distribution success.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-01 09:41|| 2023-07-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#10 It was a friendship balloon. The bouquet fell off over the Pacific somewhere.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-01 10:29|| 2023-07-01 10:29|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-01 10:54|| 2023-07-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Why do I immediately think of Maxwell Smart saying, "Would you believe..."

Posted by Tom 2023-07-01 11:17|| 2023-07-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Shoot down the friendship balloon with a gender reveal SAM. That should keep the woke Pentagone amused...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-01 11:21|| 2023-07-01 11:21|| Front Page Top

#14 NK shoots missile after missile. Hamas should salvos of rockets to no condemnation. We shoot down one friendship balloon and everyone loses their mind.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-01 12:20|| 2023-07-01 12:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Who made them utter such nonsense, quite literally the most ridiculous assertion imaginable and worse, drawing attention back to the whole risible response to begin with! This is clownish ineptitude, even for the Puppet Show.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-01 12:28|| 2023-07-01 12:28|| Front Page Top

#16 And Epstein killed himself.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-07-01 13:39|| 2023-07-01 13:39|| Front Page Top

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