During an interview, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) revealed just how much damage President Joe Biden caused the United States by allowing a Chinese spy balloon to travel over the country before shooting it down off the coast of South Carolina.
McCaul made the remarks on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” hosted by Margaret Brennan, while discussing the assorted objects that have been shot down after entering North American airspace over the past two weeks.
McCaul said that one of his top priorities is to stop exporting technology to China, which could theoretically be used by their military and spy agencies.
“In this case, a sophisticated spy balloon that went across three nuclear sites, I think it’s important to say, in plain view of the American people,” he said. “In Montana, the triad site, air, land, and sea nuclear weapons, in Omaha, the spy balloon went over our Strategic Command, which is our most sensitive nuclear site. It was so sensitive that President [George W.] Bush was taken there after 9/11. And then finally, Missouri, the B-2 bomber, that’s where they are placed. It did a lot of damage.”
McCaul said that the Chinese flying a surveillance balloon over those sites caused “great damage” to U.S. national security due to the fact that the CCP is able to gather more detailed images and intelligence than they can from a satellite.
“It was done with provocation to gather intelligence data, and collect intelligence on our three major nuclear sites in this country,” he said. “Why? Because they’re looking at what- what is our capability in the event of a possible future conflict in Taiwan. They’re really assessing what we have in this country.”
“I find it extraordinary the timing of this flight as well, you know, right before the State of the Union speech, and also, you know, right before Secretary Blinken was scheduled to meet with Chairman Xi,” he continued. “I think it was very much an act of belligerence on their part and perhaps they don’t care what- what the American people think about that.”
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