by Bonchie at RedState
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Biden administration misled the American people about a major foreign policy issue.
According to a new report, the claim that the infamous Chinese spy balloon was blocked from transmitting data as it flew across the mainland United States was false. Astonishingly, the balloon was allowed to connect to a domestic telecommunications service. That connection was then used to send “burst transmissions” back to China, and it’s unlikely it was transmitting take-out orders.
The balloon connected to a U.S.-based company, according to the assessment, to send and receive communications from China, primarily related to its navigation. Officials familiar with the assessment said it found that the connection allowed the balloon to send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data over short periods of time.
Gen. Mark Milley, who himself has a long history of defending China, was serving as Biden’s Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. He claimed that all communications from the satellite were blocked, making whatever intelligence was gathered over the United States irrelevant. That was not true.
On 9/17, Gen. Milley insisted the spy balloon didn’t collect any intel.
Biden admin officials have said the same.
Now, nearly a year after the incident, NBC learns that the balloon used a U.S. telecom network to “send burst transmissions, or high-bandwidth collections of data…
— Michael Sobolik (@michaelsobolik) December 29, 2023
Milley’s claim, which was repeated by other White House officials,…
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