Pirate's Cove

His administration is doing a pretty piss poor job with informing the public, as well

Administration scrambles to quell Congress’s frustration over balloon, UFOs

Senior administration officials scrambled Tuesday to quell frustrations expressed by lawmakers about a lack of timely information concerning several flying objects and a Chinese spy balloon shot down over the past two weeks.

In a classified briefing on Tuesday, the officials offered an update on the three aerial objects shot down Friday afternoon and last weekend. Separately, officials said they believed the objects were not threats to national security and were benign balloons.

It’s unclear just how much the briefing calmed lawmakers, as senators say they didn’t get answers to several questions, including who launched the objects that were shot down in recent days, whether they were military or commercial vehicles and what they were doing in the sky.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said after the briefing that Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) will lead an investigation into why the balloons weren’t detected earlier.

“We still have questions about why they didn’t discover these balloons sooner, these objects sooner,” Schumer told reporters after the weekly Democratic caucus meeting. “Sen. Tester is going to lead our caucus in investigating this. It’s a good question. We need to answer it.”

“Senior administration officials.” Because there is almost nothing from Biden.

The U.S. military has yet to recover the vehicles shot down over Alaska, Canada and Lake Huron, leaving much unknown about them.

It might be nice to know why the U.S. military had to act to shoot the one over Canada. Don’t they have an air force? Meh, maybe that’s a discussion for the Canadian parliament to ask PM Trudeau.

Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), a senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the administration can still be more transparent and forthcoming about its handling of balloons and other aerial objects entering U.S. airspace.

“I think it can be done without compromising, in intelligence lingo, ‘sources and methods,’” he said.

Biden is uninterested in being transparent. And Senators are pretty unhappy that they really aren’t getting much information.

(CBC) Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby said intelligence sensors have been adjusted to detect objects they wouldn’t have been able to see before, which could be why we have seen the recent discoveries.

That means it’s still possible we could see more news of unknown objects in our skies or being shot down.

One would have thought the U.S. military and intelligence agencies would have used their enormous budgets to look for anything, but, I guess they have been distracted by their march towards Woke.

(NY Post) After four “balloon” shootdowns in nine days, plus official denials after one general said this might be a space-alien thing, only one thing is crystal clear: The Biden administration needs to get out a lot more facts and explanations, or conspiracy theories will run rampant.

The White House said Monday that President Joe Biden has no intention of explaining his decisions. Ridiculous.

Are more balloons suddenly coming, or has US policy changed to a “down them all” approach — and if so, why? You have to fear the White House is simply desperate to show toughness after it got caught trying to let the initial Chinese espionage craft proceed safely.

Don’t expect to get answers from Biden anytime soon.