The “Balloonacy” Continues

The official lunacy surrounding the Chinese communist spy balloon that violated U.S. airspace continues unabated. 

General Glen VanHerck, the head of NORAD, admitted yesterday in a convoluted statement that Chinese communist balloons likely violated U.S. airspace during the Trump years, but we didn’t detect them. 

That’s a huge problem right there. Gen. VanHerck acknowledged that NORAD is working to overcome this “domain awareness gap.”

However, the general added that “additional means of [intelligence] collection” – whatever that means – “made us aware of those [missed] balloons.”

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was also asked to explain how the Biden Administration suddenly discovered these previous Chinese balloon flights. Here’s what she said:

“Yeah, so, look, I think that . . . when the PRC government surveillance balloons transited the continental U.S. briefly at least three times . . . during the prior administration and once that we know of the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time, as we know.

“This information was [recently] discovered . . . But this is something . . . that we — they [U.S. intelligence agencies] did not — they were not aware of, as we’ve just laid out. But again, we are ready to brief key officials to let them know what the intelligence community was able to figure out.”

I’m sorry, but that’s not going to cut it. We have been lied to so many times by the Deep State that I’m not willing to accept these non-answer “trust us” explanations. The Biden Administration must be a lot more transparent than that.

For his part, former Trump Defense Secretary General Jim Mattis said yesterday that he was never informed of any Chinese communist spy balloons approaching U.S. airspace. But Mattis speculated that perhaps a review of old “radar tapes” may have yielded additional information.

We’re nearly two weeks into this latest Biden national security scandal, and the story keeps changing.