Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was more positive: “Thank you to the men and women of the United States military who were responsible for completing the mission to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon. We must be better prepared for future provocations and incursions by the CCP.” Communist China was allowed to violate American sovereignty unimpeded for days. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tweeted: “Now that this embarrassing episode is over, we need answers from the Biden Administration on the decision-making process. Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Allowing a spy balloon from the Communist Party of China to travel across the entire continental United States before contesting its presence is a disastrous projection of weakness by the White House,” said Mississippi Sen. Republicans were critical of Biden’s response. took steps to mitigate what information it could gather as it moved along. military was constantly assessing the threat, and concluded that the technology on the balloon didn’t give the Chinese significant intelligence beyond what it could already obtain from satellites, though the U.S. The officials briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. The Americans were able to collect intelligence on the balloon as it flew over the U.S., giving them a number of days to analyze it and learn how it moved and what it was capable of surveilling, according to two senior defense officials said. The balloon was spotted Wednesday over Montana, home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which has fields of nuclear missile silos. territory over northern Idaho on Tuesday, the day the White House said Biden was first briefed on it. 28 and moved largely over land across Alaska and then into Canadian airspace in the Northwest Territories on Monday. air defense zone north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. defense and military officials said Saturday that the balloon entered the U.S. The officials estimated the recovery efforts would be completed in a short time, not weeks. The debris landed in 47 feet of water, shallower than officials had expected, and it spread out over roughly seven miles and the recovery operation included several ships. “I did not anticipate waking up to be in a ‘Top Gun’ movie today,” she said. Then she saw fighter jets circling and the balloon get hit. On Saturday, Ashlyn Preaux, 33, went out to get her mail in Forestbrook, South Carolina, and noticed her neighbors looking up - and there it was, the balloon in the cloudless blue sky. The spectacle had Americans looking to the skies all week, wondering whether the mysterious balloon had floated over them.
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