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They're going to say it was a liberal plot either way so I don't think it matters.
Edit: typos.
(CNN) — The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.
“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.
“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”
VanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”
A senior administration official told CNN on Sunday that the intelligence community is prepared to offer briefings to key Trump administration officials about the Chinese surveillance program, which the Biden administration believes has been deployed in countries across five continents over the last several years.
Trump administration officials have insisted that they were not aware of any balloons transiting the US while Trump was in office.
After the Biden administration disclosed last week that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was hovering over Montana, the Pentagon said that similar balloon incidents had occurred during the Trump administration. In response, former Trump administration Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CNN on Friday that he was “surprised” by that statement.
“I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump also said on Truth Social this week that reports of Chinese balloons transiting the US during his administration were “fake disinformation.”
The latest balloon that hovered over Montana was detected early enough to allow the US to gather intelligence on it while it transited the US before it was shot down, VanHerck said.
“There was a potential opportunity for us to collect intel where we had gaps on prior balloons,” he said. “And so I would defer to the intel community. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed, and I think you’ll see in the future that that timeframe was well worth its value to collect over.” >

Fake disinformation? So actually truthful information? >

He has the best words. >

An "awareness gap" is a good description of Trump in general. >

That would be a great name for his biography. >

Though that one had a name already. Something German and similar to minecraft. I can’t remind my self if it’s name…. >

Mein Covfefe >

Holy shit. It's perfect. >

Was the gap that the CiC was a grifting moron? >

The Pentagon apparently wasn’t aware of the balloons until after Trump was out of office. Would corroborate Trump’s team’s claim that he wasn’t told about them while in office. 
Somebody fucked up at the Pentagon and I think we oughta know who. >

Who was running the Pentagon during his presidency? >

Esper said he didn’t receive any info on that, Bolton said there was no briefing about it. That’s all the security/defense guys I’ve seen deny it. I don’t like Bolton, but I trust him on that. He’s a national security guy who split with Trump, he’s not gonna hold something like that back at this point. >

Yeah. He wouldn’t speak out until he sold his book. No Saint here. >

Not calling him a Saint. I’m calling him practical when considering himself. He has nothing to gain by lying in this circumstance. All it takes is someone proving he was lying for his credibility to go down the toilet. Nothing to gain, everything to lose. >

I hesitate to believe anyone who swore to uphold the constitution that puts their personal interests before their country. That pretty much rules out most republicans and all of 45’s administration. The ones that left after Jan 6 are really not much better than those that stayed loyal. This, of course, is my humble opinion. Peace. >

So which is the preferred outcome for republicans in this? That the armed forces withheld info from Trump because they are part of a liberal plot?  Or because they felt Trump was such a security liability that informing him could have jeopardized national security interests?  Or was it that the Armed Forces under him had become incompetent/compromised?  
I mean by all means investigate.  Any answer they find looks absolutely terrible for them outside of liberal plot, and that's the least plausible by a mile.