Pres. Biden says intelligence community’s current assessment is that unidentified aerial objects recently shot down “were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions.” https://t.co/80mtOlhfgs pic.twitter.com/nMVF394nJa

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 16, 2023

[No one in the mainstream media seems too perturbed by the admissions over the last couple of days that Biden ordered aerial vehicles shot down without knowing whether they presented any risk in the first place. As for “acting out of an abundance of caution,” why didn’t they apply that principle to the China spy balloon before it entered NORAD’s airspace? — Ed]