#PRC: An intelligence gathering balloon over strategic national security sites & What is to be done? John Bolton. Former National security Adviser.
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
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#PRC: An intelligence gathering balloon over strategic national security sites & What is to be done? John Bolton. Former National security Adviser.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antennas-other-equipment-to-gather-intelligence-u-s-says-11675953033?mod=hp_lead_pos9
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| 0:41.2 | I'm John Bachelors, the balloon, the latest information from the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:46.6 | New information described by a range of officials from the Pentagon State Department and the FBI, |
| 0:51.7 | as the Biden administration prepared to take unspecified action against companies and entities |
| 0:56.4 | linked to the Chinese balloon program. What about the balloon program? |
| 1:00.3 | According to the journal, images captured by high altitude due to surveillance planes |
| 1:05.2 | show that the balloon was equipped with multiple antennas, including an array likely capable of |
| 1:10.8 | pinpointing location communications. I stop there because I welcome John Bolton, former |
| 1:16.8 | national security adviser to the President of the United States, former ambassador to the UN for |
| 1:21.7 | the President of the United States, commenting all week long as the information drips out about |
| 1:28.0 | the balloon. What we do know is that the Chinese reaction when it was first spotted was to say one, |
| 1:36.3 | the falsehood that it was meteorological research, two that it was a civilian airship, |
| 1:41.4 | and three that it was accidental that it drifted over the Aleutian Islands, Canada, and the United |
| 1:47.4 | States. John, a very good evening to you. The three deceptions are a bad beginning. What to make |
| 1:52.4 | of this balloon now, especially because we're told there's a PLA program that has many of these |
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