http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/02/13/john-kirby-explains-why-previous-administration-didnt-detect-ccp-spy-balloons-but-biden-did/
John Kirby has obviously been giving a larger role in the regular White House briefings, with Karine Jean-Pierre getting a bit of a break. Monday was another example of that:
Townhall.com (@townhallcom) ~ Karine Jean-Pierre did not take a single question during today's White House press briefing.
http://twitter.com/i/status/1625210284116742152
It seems that the White House press secretary wasn’t eager to address questions:
JWF (@JammieWF) ~ Historic levels of transparency.
Karine Jean-Pierre transparency ...
At issue is the increasing number of “unidentified object” incursions going on in various parts of the country:
An unidentified object shot down Sunday over Lake Huron — the fourth flying object in less than two weeks to have been downed over North American airspace — was described earlier Sunday by a senior administration official as an octagonal structure with strings hanging off but no discernible payload.
VanHerck described the objects shot down Friday, Saturday and Sunday by North American forces as being similar in size and shape. One issue in getting a better description, he said, is that fighter jets are traveling at relatively high speeds when eyes are put on them, at roughly 200 mph compared with objects that are aloft but otherwise nearly static.
Those three remained a mystery in contrast to the Feb. 4 takedown of aircraft believed to belong to the People’s Republic of China, Melissa Dalton, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, said during Sunday’s briefing.
What’s going on?
Kirby tried to get the mostly loyal media to report how the Biden administration has managed to uncover and track what the previous administration allegedly couldn’t. How? By essentially blaming Trump:
Breaking911 (@Breaking911) ~ KIRBY: "[Chinese balloon program] was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it, we detected it. We tracked it."
http://twitter.com/i/status/1625201716697219072
Does anybody else smell manure?
GrandMomsterMel (@MomsterMel) ~ How? Either you withheld info from the Commander in Chief, or you are now lying. Not good either way.
FunkyPox (@corrcomm) ~ Perhaps I’m missing something obvious, but if no one “detected” it at the time, how can you now definitively say it happened? Is there something you can go back and look at, and say, “Oh look, there was a Chinese spy balloon over Jabip Iowa in April of 2018”?
The short answer is ...
Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) ~ Earlier today I reached out to John Kirby regarding his claims.
I emailed and texted him.
I asked him for the evidence regarding these claims.
Oddly enough—he did not respond.
Strange.
That wouldn’t be surprising.
That's true ... given the levels of "transparency" from the Brandon administration, that is.
@based_seattle (@based_seattle) ~ How sad it is for this former Navy admiral to debase himself like this. The only reason we know is because a news station in Montana covered it.
Dave Lynn (@freddavelynn) ~ It was detected when some Montana people said, "Hey, look up there. What the hell is that?"
And then they decided to try and blame the Trump administration. What a sad and desperate joke.
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