Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, 'The bottom line here is that shooting down the balloon over water wasn't just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intel gain.’
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – Republican US lawmakers on Sunday, February 5, criticized President Joe Biden for waiting days to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it floated over the United States, accusing him of showing weakness toward China and initially trying to keep the breach of US airspace undisclosed., a week after it first entered US airspace near Alaska, triggering a dramatic spying saga that has further strained American-Chinese relations.
Cotton told the “Fox News Sunday” program that he believed Biden, a Democrat, had waited to disclose the penetration of US airspace because he wanted to salvage Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned diplomatic trip to Beijing, which ultimately was postponed. “The president called for this to be dealt with in a way that balanced all of the different risks. That’s exactly what happened,” Buttigieg said.
“The bottom line here is that shooting down the balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intel gain,” Schumer told a news conference. Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” show, Trump’s former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe also denied such balloon incidents.
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