Look up in the sky, over Taiwan! It’s not a bird, it’s not a plane, it’s China… sending their infamous spy balloons over to have a little looky-loo.
The entire spy balloon debacle of last February has nearly faded from the American consciousness in light of how quickly the news cycle moves on, but China has not forgotten about it, or how they tried to pass the whole thing off as a weather balloon experiment that just got away from them, once local media blew the whistle on what the Biden administration was trying to keep quiet. And of course, it was hard to miss that giant white thing getting popped right off the coast of South Carolina and then falling into the Atlantic Ocean.
We have since learned that yes, China was getting some nice and pretty pictures of the United States, including pictures from military facilities, U.S. intelligence knew about the spy balloon WHEN IT LAUNCHED and did nothing when it invaded American airspace, the Biden administration was making the effort to keep Congress from finding out about it (which ended up being a colossal failure), and now we learn that the spy balloon used an American internet service provider to transmit data back to China – and the Biden administration KNEW THAT and apparently asked for a FISA order to track it!
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