Garrett Graff: “Based mostly on the reporting and odd feedback of the previous few days, with the Pentagon saying that the balloons transited the US earlier than, together with throughout the Trump administration, and Trump officers vociferously denying any such transits, I believe it’s pretty simple to learn between the traces: The balloons did transit the US earlier than, together with throughout the Trump administration, however with out the US detecting them. In some way—most probably both by way of so-called ‘alerts intelligence intercepts’ by the NSA or from human intelligence sources by way of the CIA, the US discovered in regards to the Chinese language balloon program and instructed the Pentagon to be alert for future transits.”

“The Chinese language balloon program appears the tough equal of the U-2 spy airplane missions of the early Sixties—necessary surveillance and intelligence missions that carried on in accordance with their very own bureaucratic schedule, seeming with little higher-up consideration.”

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